Category: COMMENTARY

Giving ‘John Doe’ a Voice

FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: ‘John Doe conservatism,’ inspired by Frank Capra’s 1941 American film classic, Meet John Doe, refers to a political philosophy of simplicity, quotidian human decency, and humdrum heroism.

Conservatives Need to Re-embrace the Free Market

There is no question that free trade prospects in the UK are lagging, but there is more at stake than simply the arrest of British economic growth. A free economy gives rise to virtuous citizenry, promotes desirable social ends by means of employment, and reduces poverty—noble goals that were developed over the last two centuries.

A Bastille Day Love Letter To France

A world without Chartres, without Mont Saint-Michel, without Pernand-Vergelesses, without Monet and Matisse, without the oysters of Brittany, the butter of Normandy, and the quenelles of Lyon, and without autumnal strolls through the Luxembourg Gardens, and a spring gallivant up the Boulevard Saint-Germain would be a world of acute poverty.

The ‘H’ Word

Throughout human history, hate was not viewed as generally abnormal or anti-social. It was just another emotion that, along with anger, despair or love, had a place in human relationships.

White Girls: The Victims the Left Ignore

White Girls: The Victims the Left Ignore

Western leaders pay for these crimes with minor blips in the opinion polls; Europe’s daughters pay with their lives. But those in power have one more trick up their sleeve: to stop us noticing, and to criminalise our speech when we do.

October 28, 2022
How To Make Britain Great Again

How To Make Britain Great Again

There is only one path forward for conservatives: to combine tax cuts with structural reforms to welfare-state spending.

October 24, 2022
Boris Palmer, Sahra Wagenknecht, and Hans-Georg Maassen: A Tale of Three German Politicians

Boris Palmer, Sahra Wagenknecht, and Hans-Georg Maassen: A Tale of Three German Politicians

These three politicians may not belong to AfD, but their turn toward conservative principles allies them with the Right in common sense and civic discourse.

October 23, 2022
The Green New Zeal: A Very Bourgeois Malady

The Green New Zeal: A Very Bourgeois Malady

Theirs is performative activism—a self-indulgent pastime to signal luxury beliefs. Pouring milk all over the floor at Harrods doesn’t save the planet, it just shows how little they care about the staff who have to clean it up.

October 23, 2022
Soup Nazis: Climate Activist Tools Take on Vincent van Gogh

Soup Nazis: Climate Activist Tools Take on Vincent van Gogh

There is no indication that anyone’s opinion of climate change is different now from what it was before the souping.

October 21, 2022
Time for Britain to Euthanise the Conservative Party

Time for Britain to Euthanise the Conservative Party

Facing inevitable electoral oblivion, in an odd way, affords the political Right a rare opportunity. With absolutely no chance of keeping Labour out of Number 10 (nor any possibility that they could prove worse), the nation finally has the opportunity to bury the Tories once and for all, and unite behind a genuine conservative coalition.

October 20, 2022
Lola’s Murder: Searching For Political Decency

Lola’s Murder: Searching For Political Decency

Recuperation is quite simply the preferred and almost exclusive modus operandi of the Left. Having abandoned the idea of truth, it must look for something else to fuel its battles.

October 20, 2022
VOX’s Viva22: Remembrance as Resistance

VOX’s Viva22: Remembrance as Resistance

Viva22 centered on the need for historical memory as a safeguard against social engineering and the push for a borderless global market.

October 20, 2022
An Exceptional Mosaic Unveiled During Excavations in Syria

An Exceptional Mosaic Unveiled During Excavations in Syria

Prior to the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Rastan—the town where the mosaics are located—had not been the subject of any archaeological campaign.

October 19, 2022
Sweden Makes a Right Turn

Sweden Makes a Right Turn

Without question, the biggest reason why Kristersson is now the new prime minister is the impressive rise of the Swedish democrats.

October 19, 2022
Time to End the Nobel Prize in Economics

Time to End the Nobel Prize in Economics

This year’s economics prize winners are good economists, but their research is far from the original contribution that should merit a Nobel Prize.

October 18, 2022
Why the West Should Hold Off on Normalising Relations With Iran

Why the West Should Hold Off on Normalising Relations With Iran

Trade with hostile nations is always not a bad idea—after all, interdependence can increase the chances of peace. Yet some European countries were perhaps naïve to pursue a normalisation of relations with Iran so eagerly.

October 18, 2022