I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.