With the shadow of war casting over, Britain's young adults, who are one of the largest unemployed groups in the country, will be expected to go and die in a war far from home with no choice. How can we call ourselves a modern and progressive nation when Britain can’t even provide opportunity and prospects for future generations, whilst it sees fit to send them to go and die in a conflict far away from home? How is this just? This blind loyalty to the ideals of NATO, the UN, and the shadowy web of global institutions that have come to dominate Western policy with America at its helm, reveals the complete moral and strategic bankruptcy of Neo-liberal capitalist internationalism propagated by the US. The dream that peace could be secured through bureaucratic alliances and abstract 'rules-based orders' has proven to be a farce. These bloated institutions serve as shrines to moral vanity, incapable of defending peace or preserving sovereignty but to expand American liberal hegemony. While the West preaches idealism, the rest of the world acts according to the hard, sober logic of Realpolitik and soft power. They pursue their own interests without apology, while Western governments sacrifice theirs on the altar of global liberal and capitalist ideology. The sanctions imposed by our leaders to cripple Moscow, have backfired spectacularly as families across Britain are struggling to afford the most basic necessities. Meanwhile, through protectionism and the re-industrialisation of its domestic markets, the Russian economy is managing to adapt and even flourish despite the conflict. The West’s globalised economic order, built upon cheap imports and the hollowing out of domestic production, has revealed itself as the brittle illusion it always was. Nations across Europe are slowly beginning to wake up and realise the false illusion of entangling ones economics to another state. Countries like Germany have begun to step back from the over reliance on gas from Russia. We on the European stage at present can see the extreme flaws with such destructive policies. It is within this context that Starmer’s new commitments must be judged. This latest pledge of aid is not a demonstration of moral strength, but of political cowardice. It is the continuation of a disastrous foreign policy tradition shared by all major parties, a refusal to accept that Britain’s days of imperial policing are over, and that our first duty must be to our own people. By sending arms and potentially troops into a conflict that brings us neither safety nor prosperity, Labour is proving that it would rather die on the hill of failed internationalist obligations than stand up for the national interest. This government’s obsession with moral exhibitionism abroad is only matched by its neglect of moral restoration at home. While British families face record taxation,debt and unemployment while our armed forces are stripped of men, materials, arms manufacturing, competent and organised leadership. While our nation decays, the Labour Government believes it can buy virtue by meddling in a war that is no closer to a Ukrainian victory today than it was two years ago. True peace is not found in endless war, nor in moralising crusades waged for foreign causes. It is found in minimising conflict not expanding it, the recognition that a government’s first moral duty is to its own people. This is the back bone of a good nation, one that strives to care for what it can and not be a body of all things to all men. This idea is not new this is the guiding principle of any prosperous nation “If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house,” writes St. Paul, “he hath denied the faith” (1 Timothy 5:8). This is as true for nations as it is for men. A government that squanders its people’s wealth and security for the sake of political vanity abroad denies its sacred trust before the people and God. A truly patriotic government would seek peace through strength, not by playing the vassal to foreign causes, but by rebuilding the sinews of British power. That means reindustrialising our economy, securing our energy independence, and restoring the might of our armed forces, not to fight wars in distant lands, but to defend our own. It means rejecting the poisonous delusions of globalism and returning to the realism that guided nations for thousands of years. Realism does not mean cynicism. It means the maturity to understand that the world is not saved by fine words and moral gestures, but by strength, prudence, and the wise pursuit of one’s own good. Realism recognises that foreign entanglements drain our strength and that the highest service we can render the world is to be a nation that governs itself well, sovereign, moral, and strong. The global order built on Neo-liberal idealism is collapsing. In its place, a new age of power politics is emerging, one in which nations must either assert themselves or be dominated by those who do. The time has come for Britain to awaken from her illusions, to cast aside the false security of supranational dependence, and to once again walk the proud and independent path of a free nation under God. In the final reckoning, the measure of a government’s virtue lies not in its willingness to bleed for others, but in its fidelity to its own people. The Labour Government’s reckless pursuit of foreign entanglements, its eagerness to sacrifice British wealth and perhaps even British lives on behalf of Ukraine, betrays a deeper sickness within our political class. They have forgotten what nationhood means. They have forgotten that patriotism is not a performance but a duty. Britain will no longer fight wars that are not her own. We will no longer mortgage our children’s future for the sake of hollow international prestige. We will rebuild our strength, renew our moral foundations, and reclaim our sovereignty. Only then will Britain once again be the independent, nation with a united people, this our future destined to be.

For over two centuries, the Western world—Great Britain foremost among it—has bowed before the false idol of capitalism. What began as a promise of prosperity during the Age of Enlightenment, and which fueled much commerce during the Industrial Revolution, has over time become one of the greatest symptoms of our national decay. The liberal doctrines of laissez-faire economics, egoistic individualism, and unfettered free markets have not strengthened our people but rather hollowed out the moral, social, and spiritual fabric that once made Britain the envy of the world. Capitalism, in its relentless pursuit of profit, has dissolved the voluntary communitarian bonds that once held our society together. The market, elevated above all other considerations, has transformed people from moral beings into mere economic units—valued only for their productivity, purchasing power, and capacity to consume. The working classes, once bound by solidarity and pride in their labour, have been atomised. The middle classes, once pillars of civic virtue, now chase status symbols and fleeting material pleasures, while seizing political power from the old ruling classes with their emergent financial dominance and handing it over to international forces. Meanwhile, those ruling classes of old have all but been consumed by the interests of financial power. The dogma of free trade, so long held sacred by liberal economists, has gutted Britain’s economic independence. By throwing open our markets to foreign monopolies, successive governments have sacrificed self-sufficiency on the altar of cheap imports and convenience. The result has been catastrophic. Our coal mines, steelworks, textile mills, shipyards, and family farms—once the pride of British industry—have been closed, sold off, or absorbed by vast multinational conglomerates with no loyalty to our land or our people. Wealth that once circulated through our local economies now flows mostly through London and off abroad, feeding the profits of faceless global interests while our own workers are left jobless, dependent, and disillusioned. Where once Britain stood as the workshop of the world, we now mostly import what we should produce and export what we should preserve. We have surrendered our economic sovereignty—and with it, our geopolitical power—to nations that gladly exploit our dependence. Capitalism has not only plundered our country of its once-great industries, it has also desecrated our culture. In the hands of marketers and advertisers, British identity itself has become a product to be packaged, branded, and sold. Every noble tradition, every symbol of our national heritage, has been stripped of its spiritual meaning and repurposed for material gain. The moral imagination of the nation has been replaced by the cold logic of the marketplace. Beauty, faith, and virtue—once understood as divine and eternal—are now mere marketing tools. Our festivals, once centred on family, faith, and community, are dominated by sales and spectacle. Even patriotism is commodified: flags made in foreign factories, slogans printed on cheap synthetic plastic, the soul of our nation reduced to a brand image. Worse still, the excesses of modern advertising have normalised vice. Gluttony is sold as indulgence, lust as empowerment, greed as ambition. The airwaves and billboards preach a gospel of self-gratification. Hypersexuality, consumer addiction, and moral apathy are peddled as freedom, while the virtues of restraint, modesty, and discipline are mocked as outdated. The family unit—God’s first and greatest institution for civil society—has been torn apart by economic necessity and cultural decay. The Left’s answer to the failures of capitalism has been no remedy at all. Marxist experiments, rooted in the same secular materialism as liberal economics, have merely replaced one master with another. Instead of private monopolies, we are ruled by bloated, inefficient state bureaucracies. Instead of free and fairly regulated markets, we endure managed poverty thanks to overregulation and high taxation, coupled with a welfare state that incentivises the unemployed to remain dependent. The result? Neighbours no longer know one another, for there is no longer an incentive for them to help each other. The local parish, once the moral backbone of British life, has been rejected in favour of consumerism, digital distraction, and a culture of self-interest. The economy that promised liberty has instead enslaved the populace to consumption. In truth, the post-industrial world we inhabit today is a monstrous hybrid of the excesses of Liberalism and Marxism—a zombie economy kept alive by debt, subsidies, and regulation, serving only the powerful few. Meanwhile, small enterprise is stifled by overregulation and increased tax burdens funding further bureaucracy. Working people are overtaxed, entrepreneurs overburdened, and family farmers strangled, while multinational corporations grow fat on government contracts and perks gained from political lobbying. Both the Left and the centre-Right have betrayed the nation by worshipping the same false god of material progress divorced from moral purpose. It is high time, therefore, for Britain to embrace a higher economic ideal—one that harmonises labour and capital, faith and nation, the common good and private enterprise. The answer may lie in a national corporatist system: an economy guided not by the blind forces of the market nor the tyranny of an anti-patriotic government, but by the moral authority of the nation itself. In such a system, the economy serves the people—not the other way around. Industry is organised around vocational guilds and professional corporations, uniting workers and employers in shared purpose rather than class conflict. Trade policy protects national interests and secures self-sufficiency in food, energy, and manufacturing. The state acts not as a profiteer or a puppet, but as a steward of the national good, ensuring that wealth creation uplifts the moral and spiritual health of the nation. The time has come for Britain to cast off the failed creeds of the 19th and 20th centuries. Both laissez-faire capitalism and Marxist socialism have brought us to ruin: economically dependent, morally disoriented, and spiritually impoverished. A patriotic government of the future must be bold enough to reject both extremes and build a system rooted in truth, duty, and national purpose—a system that restores the dignity of work, the strength of family, and the sanctity of faith. Only then can we begin the great work of national revival, rebuilding a Britain that is not merely wealthier, but wiser, freer, nobler, and greater.

By the twentieth century, as the old liberal order faltered, neoliberalism then arose as a desperate attempt to keep capitalism alive in order to combat communism. It claimed to stand for free markets, yet in reality it concentrated power into the hands of multinational conglomerates. It strangled small local economies, exported our major manufacturing industries abroad, crippled our mineral mining capabilities and sacrificed our self-sufficiency on the altar of "globalisation." Worst of all, it opened the floodgates to mass economic migration, displacing native populations, undermining working-class livelihoods, and eroding cultural cohesion in towns and cities across Europe. Thus we see the futility of liberalism in all its forms, be they classical, modern, or neo. Each has promised liberty, prosperity and progress, yet each has delivered alienation, division and decline. We can no longer waste our energy on the endless quarrels benveen left-liberalism and right-liberalism, communism vs capitalism. They are heads of the same materialistic beast, dragging Britain into ruin. When a truly patriotic government of the future takes the reigns of power, it must cast aside these harmful, outdated and incompetent ideas once and for all, if we are to escape this chaos. Post-Liberalism must be our new creed. It is not a retreat into the past but a bold step into the future an affirmation of selfless virtue over selfish vice, communitarianism over individualism, corporation over competition, nationalism over globalism, and Christian moral order over Secular amoral chaos. Only by embracing Post-Liberalism can Britain be renewed. The task before us is clear to rise above the ruins and to build, once again, a Britain that is One, Great and Free.

Paternalism is not tyranny. It is the balance between freedom and authority. It shields without smothering, commands without crushing, inspires without deceiving. It sets standards for leaders and cultivates dignity among citizens. If Britain is to rise again, it must cast off the cowardice of maternalism and embrace the courage of paternalism. Only then can we rebuild a patriotic government that commands respect, restores trust, and rekindles the strength of our nation.

National Service would give our youth the structure and sense of belonging that so many are lacking today. It would foster resilience, teamwork, and pride in serving the communities and country they call home. It would be a unifying national rite of passage, transcending class and social status. Moreover, Britain must be prepared. Our Armed Forces and public services need strong reserves to draw upon in times of crisis. Whether facing external threats or domestic emergencies, we must never find ourselves wanting for manpower, or patriotism. National Service is not merely about work, it's about character. Rebuilding a generation that believes in Britain and in the principle that with citizenship comes r:esponsibility. The time has come to act boldly, to strengthen our people, and to forge once more a proud and prepared nation. Let's rise together, and make service to Britain a badge of honour once again. As the late philosopher Jönathan Bowden once said, "The only way in which you would cure many of the problems that presently exist, with elements of lumpen and criminality at all levels of life, is to reintroduce National Service."

Such a movement must draw on the traditions of Christian morality and personal responsibility at the centre of village life. All of which balance individual agency with collective duty. Promoting local organisation over needless government centralisation and focuses assertive action over passive dependency The goal is not to erase difference or mandate conformity but to reweave the moral fabric of society with a renewed emphasis on duty, loyalty, and belonging. Importantly it must be future-oriented, inspiring people to become stewards of a shared cultural inheritance. Through public discourse and local leadership, Britain can recultivate a culture that celebrates the individual as part of the community, not removed from it. In doing so, it can restore the foundations of a more meaningful national life. As the philosopher Roger Scruton once said: "to sustain the networks of familiarity and trust on which a community depends for its longevity."