Censorship… Jesus, Marx and Greta Compared 09/03/202009/03/2020 Those of us conservatives, who sit on our park benches and watch and observe the political world go by - scurrying hither and thither, forming allegiances and breaking them up…
Political Debate… Is The Guardian racist? 03/03/202007/03/2020 For the last four years or so, political battles have been fought, won and lost upon the Brexit issue. The punditry in the media have claimed that "Brexit has divided…
Political Debate… The Attorney General, Cultural Marxism and the Frothing Left 20/02/202024/02/2020 In the recent cabinet reshuffle, Suella Braverman MP was promoted to Attorney General. In an ordinary world, this appointment would scarcely have registered in the consciousness of the mainstream and…
Corruption… 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.…
Brexit… 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…
Brexit… The Post-Brexit Tory Doom 28/03/2019 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.…
Corruption… The Post-Modernist Final Solution 21/08/201823/01/2019 Most of us are mystified by the current course of events. There seem to be so many contradictions in politics and elsewhere. In fact, many contradictions seem to have become…
Leadership qualities… On the far side of the Vistula. 30/04/201830/04/2018 Every now and then, Twitter throws up some interesting stuff on my timeline. A few days ago, the image below was tweeted by an enthusiastic member of the Labour Party:…
Conservation… What is ‘rewilding’ and who is it for? 02/11/2017 For some time now, I have been searching the fogs and mists in the outer reaches of the conservation movement in an attempt to give shape and meaning to the…
BBC… Populism, the Hate/Victim dialectic and why the Left need to insult us. 10/12/201611/12/2016 Even the BBC are at it now. Populism is the new racism. It is the new buzzword. Everything we don't like is now 'populist'. David Cameron is blaming his own…