This year’s Conservative leadership race has been nothing short of embarrassing. Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed over issues like tax cuts, and the contest has become awfully personal. And yet when...
Columnists / Comment / Jake Scott
by Jake Scott · Published September 20, 2022 · Last modified September 14, 2022
In 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz published The King’s Two Bodies (KTB), a deep and penetrating analysis of the relationship between monarchy and the public realm. In this magisterial work, Kantorowicz explained with unmatched clarity the...
Columnists / Culture / Jake Scott
by Jake Scott · Published August 23, 2022 · Last modified August 28, 2022
The Mallard September 2022 Competition – What is Britain? Myths are often taken to be falsehoods. We act as if they are of the same category as fiction, as fabricated fables that we tell...
The Think Tank Archipelago Whilst the Mont Pélèrin Society was obscure, it was also highly influential. In many ways, the Mont Pélèrin Society was the ‘proto-think tank’, in that it was dedicated to the...
There are many conversations being had on the Right in recent years, usually divided in two: what do we want to conserve, or build; and how do we do so? The former, I am...
‘The idea is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off’ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations We are...
Putin does not need to take Ukraine, or even necessarily enforce the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk. Instead, in many ways, he has done what he really needed to do
The fact is that reactionary media, be it music, film, literature or television, is entirely hegemonic to the left’s favour.
As of today, the Mallard is no longer publishing articles that include the word ‘woke’, in either print or online. Too many submissions, not just to the Mallard, but other publications – have become...
Perhaps it is a little bit of a meme, but I care quite a bit about Britain’s farming capacities. My father is a farmer, and so was his father; I grew up on a...
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