Jake Scott is Chairman of the Mallard and Doctoral Researcher of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham.
From the Edwina Currie affair with John Major, to James Gray’s shameful cheating on his wife whilst she died of cancer in 2007, the Conservative Party has a track record of failing to stand by the morals they lecture all the rest of us on.
For constitutionally-minded conservatives, devolution has been an unmitigated failure. It has entrenched division, and eroded the principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty that made the British polity so successful throughout history. Rather than ameliorating the tensions...
A belief in an historic injustice upon which the entire edifice of society is built, fuels our contemporaries’ faith in the validity of their actions, and the necessity of undoing, by any means possible, the entirety of society.
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by Jake Scott · Published April 22, 2021 · Last modified April 23, 2021
After all, this is simply another part of our long trip down the elite’s beloved road to serfdom, with our own people more than happily holding the state’s hand – skipping towards ultimate servitude.
It is a natural tendency for us to think of political offices as intrinsically public. After all, the etymological roots of ‘republic’ is the Latin res publica, meaning public affairs, matters – or even...
You awake to a soft tapping on the window-pane – the branches must need trimming again. Your eyes, heavy from sleep, open gingerly and peer through the dim light at the clock on your...
Utopia is an odd one for conservatives. I remember, when I was in my second year of undergraduate study, my political theory tutor claimed that all political philosophies have a utopia, to which I...
“Why can the Church of England not recognise the disgusting behaviour of one of its own? To close ranks around Mr. Robinson-Brown in this way is to support his views.”
As populism deals in conspiracy theories of cartelisation, any action taken to prevent populists from achieving their goals will only throw fuel on the fire.
by Jake Scott · Published December 12, 2020 · Last modified February 2, 2021
‘Don’t look back in anger’ was the message to Mancunians especially, and Brits at large in the wake of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Salman Ramadan Abedi, the monster who carried out the attack,...
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