Category: COMMENTARY

Giorgia Meloni’s Team of Loyalists

Perhaps the Italian PM’s trust in her advisors has led to her frequent quotation from The Lord of the Rings: “Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

The Return of American Excellence

America has her problems, but she also knows how to solve them. By the end of this decade, American excellence will once again be the envy of the world.

Rwanda: A Stay of Execution?

Sunak soldiers on, miraculously surviving what was effectively a vote of confidence; a vote he did not deserve to win.

The Hole in the Flag

The question is not simply what will fill the hole in the flag, but whether we will make that symbol worthy of the flag.

An Activist King is Bad for Britain

By recklessly tying the Crown to progressive issues, Charles erodes the neutrality on which his constitutional role rests.

U.S. Pro-Lifers’ Message to Europe: Never Give Up

U.S. Pro-Lifers’ Message to Europe: Never Give Up

Experts analysed what led to last year’s U.S. court decision that struck down abortion on demand.

June 21, 2023
Tolkien’s True Love

Tolkien’s True Love

The values of Tolkien’s world are not those of moral relativism, but those of the traditional Christian conception of courtship and romantic loyalty, in which the intimate aspects of love are treated with discretion and respect that protects their nobility.

June 21, 2023
The Violence of June: Remembrance of the Fall

The Violence of June: Remembrance of the Fall

The history of early June is steeped in violence.

What’s in a Hero? 

What’s in a Hero? 

At last, we’re talking about one of our own. At last, this counter-society that we laboriously try to preserve against the ill winds of progressivism is enjoying the limelight.

June 19, 2023
Looking Forward to the Galactic Era

Looking Forward to the Galactic Era

One day, a government official will announce that the stories are indeed true: his government has for decades been in possession of alien vessels and alien technology. That day will mark the beginning of the galactic era for humanity.

June 19, 2023
Parenthood On Demand

Parenthood On Demand

The European Commission’s proposal to require member states to recognize surrogacy as an acceptable form of parenthood disregards the best interest of children and fails to uphold the principle of subsidiarity.

June 19, 2023
The America Report: Abortion and Fiscal Blackmail

The America Report: Abortion and Fiscal Blackmail

With an ideologically aggressive president, and with the states becoming more and more dependent on money from the federal government, the table is set for fiscal blackmail of conservative states. First out: abortion laws.

June 18, 2023
Fathers on the Defence

Fathers on the Defence

Men are a particular object of contempt, often branded as ‘toxic’ if they refuse to bow to ‘wokeism.’ Ironically, we are desperately in need of good men who live in accordance with traditional ideas of virtue and chivalry–especially as loving and present fathers.

Keeping Your Room Clean: A Vision for Proactive Conservatism

Keeping Your Room Clean: A Vision for Proactive Conservatism

‘Wokeism,’ the current battering ram at the door of conservative values, might have arisen from elite schools and universities in prosperous countries, but this does not explain why it spread with the ferocity that it clearly did.

June 18, 2023
D.H. Lawrence Against The Machine 

D.H. Lawrence Against The Machine 

In Lawrence’s poetry, we catch a glimpse of how exactly the lordship of the machine is instituted: not with guns at the door, but on the altar of our worship.

June 17, 2023
Europe Starts Looking to China

Europe Starts Looking to China

It is evident that the prospect of closer ties with France is very much on China’s radar—and understandably so, France’s trust would be an immeasurable boon to the extension of China’s influence through Europe and the curtailing of the U.S.’s influence. 

June 16, 2023
Nottingham: Stick to the Script

Nottingham: Stick to the Script

In Nottingham, the police have just been granted an extra 36 hours to question the suspect—that should give us all the chance to start singing “Don’t look back in anger,” before any anger has the bad taste to show itself.

June 16, 2023