By Hell or High Water│ Ben Khamis
A revolution is coming to the Conservative party: it may be peaceful, it may be messy, but that there will be one is a total certainty. At current, the Conservative Party is something of...
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Conservatism is not Resistance to Change, it is Respect for Experience│ Ben Khamis
Conventional wisdom holds that conservatism is about resistance to change, adherence to customs and traditions, preservation of institutions, and defence of the status quo. This is incorrect. Those things are merely the effects of...
Crime and Punishment: A Critical Analysis (Book Review) │ Ben Khamis
‘Will I Really – I mean, really – actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?… Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock,...
The Greatness of “The Wicker Man”│ Ben Khamis
We are browsing the HMV at Westfield in London when I happen across The Wicker Man – The Directors Cut. I turn to my friend and ask if he has seen it. “Yeah. It...
Don Quixote: A Critical Analysis (Book Review)│ Ben Khamis
I refuse to be defeated by any book. Unless I have some serious moral problem with a given work, I will almost never return a book to the library just because I got “bored”...
Vasily Grossman’s Life & Fate – A Review│ Ben Khamis
In Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – a difficult book, but, it seems increasingly clear, the most important critical work of the last twenty years – Fredric Jameson observes that ‘the...
Do we need a new party? │ Ben Khamis
Just yesterday, I received an email informing me that my Conservative membership was due to be renewed soon, but for the first time since I joined, I doubted whether I would. For two years,...
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man│ Ben Khamis
The Tory party faces a challenging obstacle which may scuttle our chances at the next election: finding someone who can stop Corbyn’s political juggernaut. Welcome to the stage Jacob Rees-Mogg – the well-mannered, tweed-jacketed...
Let’s Recognise Jeremy Corbyn for the fraudster he is│ Ben Khamis
Have you heard the good news? Jeremy Corbyn loves you and wants you to love him. He offers you peace and joy and a fulfilled life. So sayeth Monsieur Zen: “Come unto me, all...
Let’s hear the Good News about Brexit │Ben Khamis
In my lifetime, I cannot remember any thing, idea or person getting as bad a press as Brexit has. It’s relentless. It’s not daily — it’s hourly, minutely, by the second. Open a newspaper,...
