C.J.Strachan

The Cult of the U-Turn: Why Our Leaders Don’t Think Before They Leap

13 major policy U-Turns... why is critical thinking entirely missing from our leadership?

Jan 14 • C.J. Strachan

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December 2025

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and the Death-Throes of a civilisation.

Was there ever a clearer sign that our civilization is doomed than this miserable production?

Dec 11, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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Neo-Lysenkoism is Here – and It’s Wearing a Pronoun Badge

Next week in the UK a puberty blocking study will be carried out on a number of children, despite the Cass Report and studies that confirm the very real…

Dec 7, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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August 2025

The New Boudicca?

What actually happened in Dundee on Saturday evening when a young girl was arrested for allegedly threatening a migrant man with a knife and an axe?

Aug 28, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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At What Point Do the War Dead Lose Their Honour? A Reflection on Time, Respect, and Identity

A visit to the excellent Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth brought me face to face with the cast of the skeleton of a crew member. I've been trying to…

Aug 21, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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Why is Duolingo attacking JK Rowling in its German lessons?

The world’s leading language app seems to have taken a highly partisan position on the trans debate.

Aug 20, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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July 2025

Is the tide turning against woke comedy?

Andy Parsons bombs in front of a West London crowd last week. Is this a sign that even in Ealing of all places, the public are losing patience with…

Jul 28, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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Hard left politics are being taught in our schools through DEI.

The exclusion of a 12 year old pupil for wearing a Union Flag dress to a 'Cultural Diversity Day' confirms the reality that our institutions have been…

Jul 15, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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The Madness of Conviction: How Emotional Reactivity Threatens Society

Our societies are literally tearing themselves apart, irreconcilable positions are taken by individuals, uninterested in discussion and convinced in…

Jul 7, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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Sorry for the hiatus

An apology to all my subscribers and others, it’s been a few weeks since my last post.

Jul 7, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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June 2025

Potemkin Democracy: The Great British Illusion

We still vote. We still pretend that Parliament matters. But behind the curtain of this ritualised theatre, Britain is no longer a functioning democracy…

Jun 6, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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The Lang Sidlin o Scots: Cultural Revisionism in Bilingual Roadsigns

*there's an English translation of this article below the Scots.

Jun 4, 2025 • C.J. Strachan

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