“Out, and into the world.” That was the cover artwork for the Spectator the week of the European Union independence referendum, and the moderately inspiring message of stepping out of a protectionist racket and...
This article was commissioned by the North of England Student Conservative Alliance for the Brexit Youth Conference 2018. As it stands, the Conservative Party is divided on most things: laterally, there is a distinction...
Brexit: will it happen? Should it happen? Can it happen? You would think, from the challenges made to Brexit from Gina Miller’s legal challenge to Dominic Grieve’s political manoeuvrings to the House of Lords’...
Jordan B. Peterson has been described as the most influential thinker in the West. His book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has been an instant best-seller, despite being described by Guardian...
Usually, the divisive figures in politics are the politicians. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Nicola Sturgeon, Jeremy Corbyn, Jacob Rees-Mogg; almost every major political figure is divisive in some way. And this is not surprising;...
“All art is quite useless” declared Oscar Wilde, and in doing so summarised succinctly the traditional discipline of aesthetic appreciation, and beauty. “Art is useless,” thought Wilde, “because its aim is simply to create...
‘Instead, there is a larger point to make. The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our...
Martin Schulz recently tweeted his intention to create a federal constitution that would bind the (once) sovereign nations of the European Union into a United States of Europe (USE) by 2025. This should alarm...
You’ll find in debates on social issues that the mantra of “the right side of history” will be trotted out, as always, by the progressives who tell those who defend the “old ways” that...
In the second half of the twentieth century, the famous English conservative Michael Oakeshott delivered his powerful polemic against rationalism in politics. In this, he claimed the projects of rationalism that littered Europe had...
