To prospective university students: one, congratulations; two, you must be prepared to enter an environment in which conservative ideas are at best ignored, and at worst openly derided. In my experience, conservatism is seen...
“Out, and into the world.” That was the cover artwork for the Spectator the week of the European Union independence referendum, and the moderately inspiring message of stepping out of a protectionist racket and...
This article was commissioned by the North of England Student Conservative Alliance for the Brexit Youth Conference 2018. As it stands, the Conservative Party is divided on most things: laterally, there is a distinction...
We know we must rebuild the Conservative grassroots. The question is how? As I write, the Conservatives face an issue of identity. Lord Feldman’s Party Review stated that “the Party does not tend to...
Jordan B. Peterson has been described as the most influential thinker in the West. His book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has been an instant best-seller, despite being described by Guardian...
You’ll find in debates on social issues that the mantra of “the right side of history” will be trotted out, as always, by the progressives who tell those who defend the “old ways” that...
I In the contemporary period, conservative defences of tradition have floundered against the post-modernist objection that, whatever those rules may be, they are “social constructs”. And this fact, de facto, supposedly de-legitimises them. It...
I would like to make a brief apology in advance to those reading this article, as it will be somewhat different in tone to previous articles I have written. I enjoy a good polemic...
Conservatives have traditionally framed the protection of rights alongside the requirements of responsibility and duty; after all, it makes logical sense that your right is my responsibility. Where the liberal and socialist experiments have...
