Humanity and Loss: ‘1917’ Film Review | Jake Scott
The two World Wars have, in ways beyond counting, defined our modern mindset; but while the Second World War is often a point of pride, where ‘Britain stood alone in defiance of evil’, the...
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Scruton, An Elegy: A Tribute to Professor Sir Roger Scruton | Jake Scott
On Sunday the 12th of January, at roughly six o’clock, the family of Sir Roger Scruton, the last great English conservative, shared the sad news that he had passed away. The press statement can...
Labour’s Resistance to Reality | Jake Scott
Jeremy Corbyn (who, despite having now led the Labour Party into two successive General Election defeats, seems to still consider himself a Prime Minister-in-waiting) has recently branded Labour the “Resistance” to Boris Johnson. Curiously...
Labour’s Flight from Democracy | Jake Scott
Well, there we have it. Despite the closing polls, the strategic voting, and the sheer dishonesty of the Conservatives, Boris Johnson secured the largest Conservative parliamentary majority since 1987. The pundits acted as if...
What is Conservatism? | Jake Scott
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...
Will Good Men Do Nothing? The Crisis in Hong Kong | Jake Scott
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...
In Memoriam: The Importance of the Two Minutes’ Silence | Jake Scott
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...
A Return To Beauty? What Western Europe Could Learn From Eastern Europe | Jake Scott
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...
Conservatives and Political Liberalism: A Necessary Paradox | Jake Scott
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...
What the Globalists Refuse to Learn | Jake Scott
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...
