The decivilisation of criminal law

Law doesn’t seek the rational resolution of disputes, but the creation of a tangled web in which we could all be caught.

May 21 • 

Josie Appleton

March 2025

The war on private property

Confiscation today has become so common, and so lightly done, that it is almost that the state is claiming a right of despoiling.

Mar 30 • 

Josie Appleton

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A king would be better than the new official princelings

Society is being undermined and interfered with not by a central will, but by the incredible powers invested in the lowliest petty officer.

Mar 6 • 

Josie Appleton

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February 2025

The logic of the language police

Everyday words and categories are declared to be violent; only the words produced by an HR department are seen as 'clean'.

Feb 6 • 

Josie Appleton

2

September 2024

The blame game

Politicians are always blaming a section of the population for harming the public amenity - and public policy takes the form of imposing restrictions on…

Sep 18, 2024 • 

Josie Appleton

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May 2023

The emergency addiction

The constant reference to emergencies shows that elites cannot justify authoritarianism outright.

May 21, 2023 • 

Josie Appleton

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January 2023

The empty heart of the moral technocracy

Today's elite has neither technical competence, nor morality, but opportunistically uses these things to exile criticism from public life.

Jan 31, 2023 • 

Josie Appleton

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LTNs and the policy of virtuous obstruction

Councils are returning to the tolls and divisions of medievalism.

Jan 19, 2023 • 

Josie Appleton

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Masks and other talismans against ‘unnecessary illness’

Focus on individual conduct shifts attention from the structural failures of the National Health Service.

Jan 13, 2023 • 

Josie Appleton

10

November 2022

'Misinformation' and the war on civil society.

This elite campaign is both megalomaniacal and pathetic.

Nov 2, 2022 • 

Josie Appleton

4

October 2022

Kids become the 'doctor's cattle'

Childhood covid vaccination is a secular initiation ritual.

Oct 24, 2022 • 

Josie Appleton

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We are social beings not numbers

This is not only a war on traditional identities, but on any socially integrated identities

Oct 19, 2022 • 

Josie Appleton

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