by JohnHayes | Aug 2, 2021 | Guest Blog, Nation
It was the great Conservative philosopher Edmund Burke who wrote that “Society… is a contract… between those who are dead, those who are living, and those who are to be born”.Burke saw the nation as the natural expression of this generational contract.As he put it at...
by JamesOrr | Apr 6, 2021 | Guest Blog, Nation
Critics of the present government’s strategy for ‘levelling up society’ have accused it of trafficking in transactional pork-barrel politics towards working-class voters to whom it owes its resounding victory in December 2019. But the emergence of the New Social...
by JonathanRutherford | Mar 26, 2021 | Community, Guest Blog
Since the 1980s politics has been dominated by a liberal consensus. The right controlled the economy, the left controlled the institutions of culture and learning. Wealth and opportunity were increasingly concentrated at the top and there was a diminishing sense of...
by MaryHarrington | Mar 26, 2021 | Family, Guest Blog
My grandmother was in many ways an unconventional woman, but having been at different times a doctor, a farmer, and a single mother, she was never less than pragmatic. On one of my regular visits to her care home, in my mid-twenties, she said to me out of the blue:...
by NigelBiggar | Mar 26, 2021 | Guest Blog, Nation
I am a British patriot. In late 1982 I was a student, living in Chicago and about to marry a US citizen. I vividly remember, in the weeks before the December wedding, a conversation with two American friends, who casually assumed that I would be settling in the New...
