Forgotten Love | Vox Populi
The young minds of today have been trained to focus on two aspects of life. The first being a focus on utility. Those of us in more recent generations have been told, from an...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BLM | Mario Laghos
Locked away for NYE, our increasingly irrelevant televisions were afforded life anew, taking centre stage to command the nation’s attention in a way unseen for years. At 11 o’clock, just an hour before the...
Brideshead Revisited at 75; its Historical Context | Jasper Gardner
The nineteenth century is often called ‘the long nineteenth century’ by historians to signify that in many cultural ways it extended into the early twentieth. However, the mid 1900’s was one of the greatest...
Book Review: Paul Embery, Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class
In 1936, Victor Gollancz, founder and lead publisher of The Left Book Club, commissioned a young author by the name of Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, to write a book on...
Fairytale of New York: Microcosm of a Culture War | Joseph Prebble
Advent has officially begun, and Christmas is beckoning. Christmas songs have been creeping onto our radiowaves for a few weeks, and DJs have to ponder whether to play the finest Christmas song of all...
Weak-Willed and Highly Mutable: The Church of England Continues its Fall From Grace | Ewan Gillings
It’s a strange old time for the Church of England. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and the most senior cleric in the organisation, has decided that this is a great time to announce he...
The War on Masculinity | Daniel Hawker
The recent appearance of former One Direction member Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue has been the source of much online debate in the past week. Dressed in a blue gown and black...
The 10 Worst Places to be a Christian | Sarah Stook
Every year, Christian persecution charity Open Doors ranks the worst places in the world to be a member of the faith. Here we’ll discuss entries 10-1 and why it’s so hard to be a...
The Significance of the Poppy | Jake Scott
It wasn’t long after the BBC “banned virtue signalling” amongst its employees that certain vocal elements began to ask if that included the poppy. Of course, such a question provokes instinctive reaction from most...
Auden’s Ode to Ecumenism | Georgia L. Gilholy
Born in York in 1907, and educated at Oxford, W. H. Auden was already a celebrated poet by his mid-twenties. In the midst of personal success and impending war in Europe, Auden emigrated to...
