2021: A Year In Review
Every year, the Mallard asks its contributors to reflect on the last twelve months, and the next twelve to come. We are very grateful that this year, as terrible as it may have been,...
Samuel Martin
Samuel Martin is the Editor of the Mallard and student of Politics at the University of York.
On the Killing of Sir David | Samuel Martin
On the 15th of October 2021, at around midday, police were called to Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, where a man had reportedly been stabbed 17 times. That man was Conservative MP Sir David...
The Problem is Indifference | Samuel Martin
“If pacifist hostility toward war were so strong as to drive pacifists into a war against non-pacifists, in a war against war, that would prove that pacifism truly possesses political energy because it is...
Unconquerable | Samuel Martin
On the side of the road, stood a man. Tall, young, and slender he was typical for an officer in the Royal Space Exploration Corps. What was not typical, however, was his countenance. Contrary...
Vaccine War and The British Fifth Column | Samuel Martin
VACCINE WAR As everybody knows by now, the European Union has announced its intention to block vaccine exports going from the Continent to the UK. As everybody also knows by now, the British have...
2020: A Year in Review
Every year, the Mallard asks its contributors to reflect on the last twelve months, and the next twelve to come. We are very grateful that this year, as terrible as it may have been,...
Politics is About Winning | Samuel Martin
History is earned. You win the day. And then you win the day after. And then you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost. Frank Underwood OPENING In the aftermath of the 2020...
To Conservative Freshers | Samuel Martin
It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since… it...
Conservatives Just Don’t Get It | Samuel Martin
“It is always said that a man grows more conservative as he grows older; but for my part, I feel myself in many ways growing more and more revolutionary” G.K. Chesterton. In The Art...
Andrew Neil Interviews: Jeremy Corbyn on Anti-Semitism, Brexit, Spending and Security | Samuel Martin
Despite how divided our politicians are these days, it must be remembered that they all have 3 common fears: death, irrelevancy and an interview by Andrew Neil. And when said-politician being interviewed is Labour...
