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 ImogenSinclair | Jun 8, 2021 | Nation, NSCU Blog
The Rhine River combines beauty and utility. Lacing the chic cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Rotterdam, the river has been a source of inspiration to the greatest romantic minds while proving useful for trade and supplying energy. Many poets have dedicated verse to...
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 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...
by NSCU | Mar 26, 2021 | Community, Family, Nation, Press
On the launch of the New Social Covenant Unit (21st March 2021) Danny Kruger wrote about how the job of government is to create the conditions for virtue, and how to achieve this. You can read the article on UnHerd here.
by DannyKruger | Mar 5, 2021 | Nation, Proposition
● The Union is unstable because England is a political non-entity ● A new constitutional settlement that recognises England could attract the support of people across the UK In the three posts above I have argued that the state should promote the customs...
