Category Archives: Current Affairs and Comment

Current Affairs and comment

Only Conserve

Only Conserve Peter King condemns change for change’s sake One of Edmund Burke’s most famous sayings is that ‘A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation’. This is sometimes used to suggest that … Continue reading

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Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory Ilana Mercer indicts an illiberal ideology The spectre, on the nation’s campuses, of frightened, middle-aged white educators, mostly men, resigning in fear of a mob rising in rage against hurtful words and gestures—all constitutionally protected speech—is an … Continue reading

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The Dilemma of Hypermodernity, part 3

Dynamism of a Man’s Head by Umberto Boccioni The Dilemma of Hypermodernity Mark Wegierski completes his analysis It is probably in the peripheries, rather than in the North American node of the world-system, that potential resistance to hypermodernity resides. The … Continue reading

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No Change Please

No Change Please Peter King makes a timely defence of inertia As the author of recently written books with titles such as Keeping Things Close and Here and Now[i] it is perhaps clear that what interests me is change, or … Continue reading

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“Mummy” Merkel Murders Germany

“Mummy” Merkel Murders Germany Ilana Mercer unmasks the chancellor’s evil plan Angela Merkel, elected for life, or for what seems like an eternity, squints at ordinary Germans from behind the parapets of her usurped authority. The German chancellor has signaled her … Continue reading

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Only The Donald can defeat Democrat Dames

Only The Donald can Defeat Democrat Dames Libertarian Ilana Mercer lambasts the stupid party It has to be said. Hillary Clinton did her side proud at the Benghazi hearing, held by the Select Committee on Benghazi in October. This predictable … Continue reading

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An Opaque Ideology?

An Opaque Ideology? Peter King identifies the timeless essence of conservatism When God finally spoke in English he did so in tones of moderation and quietness. After the violence and turmoil of the Reformation, the Civil War and the Restoration, … Continue reading

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Vaulting Ambition, Thwarted

Vaulting Ambition, Thwarted ANGELA ELLIS-JONES reviews a timely political memoir A Different Kind of Weather, WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, 2015, Constable, ISBN 978-1-4721-1975-9, £20 As an undergraduate at Oxford in the late 1970s, on visits to the Union I enjoyed looking at … Continue reading

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A Halloween Horror Story in the House

A Halloween Horror Story in the House Ilana Mercer notes how vampiric Republican regimists and their zombie media work against the insurgent Washington is moving aggressively to inoculate itself against The Insurgents. By the looks of it, there will be … Continue reading

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Life at the Mount

Life at the Mount Bill Hartley returns to prison A recent edition of The Sun carried a story about a group of prisoners who were pictured enjoying a ‘party’ that apparently involved illicit drink and drugs taken on an (also illegal) … Continue reading

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