Wulfstan's Ghost – Wulfstan the Homilist was bishop of London in 996 and then in 1002 was appointed Archbishop of York. He died in 1023.

Michael Gove is an Honourable Man

10/06/201910/06/2019

There are a large number of characters from classical literature who have wielded the knife and slaughtered their own allies. Shakespeare’s plays alone produce several such charmers: Macbeth, Richard III,…

Postmodernism made simple

01/06/201902/06/2019

The failure of Soviet communism was beginning to become obvious in the 1960s, as the slaughter and repression of the preceding decades slowly became more widely known in the West.…

The Modern Perils of Burke’s Bristol Speech

07/04/201908/04/2019

Update: This article has been re-published in Country Squire Magazine under the title "Let them Eat Cake". After the referendum and the General Election which followed it, both of the…

The Post-Brexit Tory Doom

In 1957, the newly appointed Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, wrote a note to Michael Fraser, the director of the Conservative Research Department. “I am always hearing about the Middle Classes.…

Signals of Contempt

21/03/201921/03/2019

Right. That's it. I've had enough. What follows may well turn into Jonathan Pie-type expletive-riddled rant. I make no apologies to those sensitive flowers who might read this article and…

Theresa May’s Great Divide

In the early part of 2019, it would appear that Theresa May (without any apparent effort) has effectively sundered the Conservative Party into two irreconcilable groups. The first group is…

May’s Vichy Britain?

26/11/201826/11/2018

Thursday 15th November 2018 might perhaps go down in British political history as one to remember. More likely is that it will be remembered as only one of a series…

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Do Buzzards eat Partridge?

31/10/201831/10/2018

In September, to great fanfare and publicity alarums, Chris Packham and George Monbiot released "A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife". This wide-ranging document claims to having no party political bias, but…

Tory MPs and the UKIP Menace

In an earlier article, I suggested that there is an impending electoral disaster for the Conservatives on the scale of the 1997 General Election - i.e. a potential loss of…

A Landscape of Fear

24/09/201824/09/2018

First it was going to be outside in the street. The lectern was set up. The press pack were alerted. But it was only going to be two journos from…