Columnists / Culture / Dustin Lovell
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 6, 2022 · Last modified September 28, 2022
“Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer. A life of usefulness, literature, and religion, was not by any means a life of event…to the little disappointments incidental to human life...
Columnists / Nathan Wilson / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 4, 2022 · Last modified September 28, 2022
This is the first of two essays by The Mallard’s Nathan Wilson on the collapse of complex systems. Introduction In the coming years, we are going to witness the partial collapse of various complex...
Columnists / Daniel Hawker / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 3, 2022 · Last modified September 28, 2022
Within the West, the realm of international theory has, since 1945, been a discourse dominated almost entirely by the Liberal perspective. Near-universal amongst the foreign policy establishments of Western governments, a focus on state...
Giving a speech in front of a room filled with people who no doubt think of themselves as conservatives, Liz Truss talked primarily about low taxes, personal responsibility, the “freedom to choose” — and...
by Mallard Columnist · Published September 24, 2022 · Last modified September 14, 2022
The recent announcement of the East Midlands Mayoral Combined County Authority (or East Midlands MCCA for short) is another sin upon the pile Boris Johnson’s outgoing government has accumulated. Uniting Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, both...
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...
by Raheem Kassam · Published September 23, 2022 · Last modified September 14, 2022
This month’s dispatch comes at a time when the Union flag is flying from the White House, all along Constitution Avenue, to the U.S. Capitol building. Usually, such a moment would be one of...
There was a time not very long ago when I wanted to become an Anglican priest. I thought I had discovered my vocation; it filled me with hope for the future. Now, however, I...
Magazine Excerpts / Nina Skinner
by Mallard Columnist · Published September 22, 2022 · Last modified September 14, 2022
To conservatives from across the UK, the shires represent the ideal for which we aim, in our politics, to spread across the UK. As a stark opposite to the faceless estates that we in...
“And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st moreOf mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?O ceremony, show me but thy...
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