The British state is as Napoleonic and haughty as anything on the Continent. And if anyone complains, brutal party discipline, modelled on Michael Corleone’s Mafia clan in The Godfather, descends on the offender. The British state is as Napoleonic and haughty as anything on the Continent. It even resorts to wild pseudo-popular policy initiativesBut there’s no heart or soul in these Tories. Last Monday, a warm September day, Britain’s power grid asked one of our few remaining coal-fired power stations, West Burton ‘A’ in Lincolnshire, to fire up and provide electricity.

Source: Daily Mail September 11, 2021 22:34 UTC