Coming up with the daffodils this Spring is the new issue of The Salisbury Review, which I recommend to any visitors of this blog.
It had looked as if this venerable magazine was to move to internet only, but for old fuddy-duddies like myself it has managed to maintain itself in print, and produces four issues per year.
The Spring 2025 issue has an examination of "Reverse Imperialism" by Driss Ghali, which details how countries in the developing world are dependent on the monies being sent back by their diasporas in the west "Each year, immigrants send over $600 billion to their home countries." This transfer of money from north to south has a huge impact on both, as bad governance profits elites in Africa and Asia. "Why reform institutions, why improve productivity, why improve the quality of leadership, when bad governance delivers vast and unconditional money transfers, free of auditing by the IMF or the World Bank?". Ghalli is a man to watch.
SDP leader William Clouston (a chief without sufficient Indians?) points out that anti-colonial ideology within our elites is driving the Chagos fiasco, while social historian Bill Hartley reminds us how poor our regional governance has been since at least the 1970s. Our town centres display that failure right in front of our eyes.
The magazine closes with a long piece from the late Roger Scruton, written in 2002, covering his own intellectual journey. While this would be familiar to anyone who has read Scruton's "Gentle Regrets" it remains a delight.
More please!
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