As the Conservative Party gears up to release its manifesto today (Sunday, 24th November), and Simple Politics released a (rather simple) delineation of the principles of conservatism (see below), I thought it prudent to share...
The UN was told that China is murdering their religious and ethnic minorities, and harvesting their organs. The very fact that something this abhorrent is happening eighty years after the beginning of the Second...
The world today is louder, busier and more hectic than it ever was. People walk around with their headphones in, playing music so loudly everyone else can hear; and if they’re not, they are...
Recently, the Twitter account Architectural Revival shared something that caught my eye: a plan in Poland for an old Soviet housing block to be either re-built or re-clad in a traditionalist facade: Soulless concrete...
In the last forty years, two terms have been conflated in conservative philosophy: the concept of “limited government”; and the political programme of a “small state”. The former is a traditional approach to governance...
In June 2016, before the Brexit referendum, I predicted that Britain would vote to Leave the European Union. Mercifully, I wasn’t alone; many people predicted such an outcome, and for many different reasons. Roger...
I will hold my hands up and admit it – I was hoodwinked by May and “her team”. I genuinely believed the result of the European Union Referendum would be respected, and we would...
Two announcements in the last week or so have filled me with hope for the new government: the first, that Home Secretary Priti Patel wants criminals to feel ‘literal terror’ at the thought of...
I’m not going to wax lyrical about the immoral practice of watching pornography, or the objectification involved in the persons who both watch and “perform” in it. That is a debate for moral and...
Broadly speaking, ideologies are the prism through which we understand politics in the contemporary world. When we discuss politics, we often do so in the language of ideologies, talking of “capitalism” and “feminism” as...
