It is irritating to see how often half-truth and outright lies are given credence by supposedly serious people and the institutions they inhabit. The number of times over recent years that private and public...
“PJ Masks will do a greater job than all of them [Ministers of the Crown] put together.” – Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to the Prime Minister. The perfect society should be run by...
Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman of the Bow Group The Orthodox Conservative Group had its launch last week, and by the rights I should be incandescent with rage and concern. The organisation will be in close...
As a result of the General Election, the emergence of “Blue Wall” Conservative MP’s has spurred new thinking about how Boris Johnson’s government should proceed in helping “left behind communities” that have voted Conservative...
William Blake’s 1808 illustration for a poem by William Blair shows a female soul leaving a male body. The Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko died in 1976 but his politicised, pseudo-scientific authoritarianism is flourishing here...
Twenty-nineteen was the year when people decided they care about climate change and the environment. Or at least they made sure to be seen saying they did. But words are cheap when they fall...
In case you hadn’t heard, the Church of England has stated that sex is for married, heterosexual couples. It declared this in 1534, when it separated from Rome – of course, you would be...
Last Monday, nine members of parliament, representing constituencies in and around Birmingham, pleaded with Boris Johnson to deliver on the Cameroon promise to introduce HS2. After Boris’ barnstorming victory in December, there are fears...
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...
I was surprised on Wednesday night. Why? I watched the video of Andrew Scheer speaking to the Canadian House of Commons on the 12th December of last year, announcing his decision to resign as...
