As any graduate looking to enter the corporate world will soon realise, recent years have seen an explosion in popularity of the idea of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR). On top of spending twenty-five hours a day at their desks, prospective recruits are well-advised to feign enthusiasm about the prospect of spending their weekends planting trees […]

SERIES ON HUMAN FREEDOM: PART ONE The first blog in a series on human freedom examines what the media reaction to the Pope’s recent comments says about the state of moral discourse in contemporary society. One of the most-reported news stories this last weekend dealt with the Pope’s now famous comments on condoms. The Pope […]

From a guest blogger: This week The Economist reported on the subject of legalising gay marriage that ‘one poll suggests the British public is ready to go all the way’. I sometimes struggle to reconcile my deep conviction about the nature of homosexual acts with the fact that some of my dearest friends are gay. […]

From a guest blogger: Society is changing fast here in the UK and it is difficult to keep track of the developments.  Whilst the middle-aged debate the merits of the Trident nuclear missile programme for our national defence, our young have taken up arms against the rest of the world by buying 1.4 million copies […]

Based upon an introductory presentation given at a session of the Thomas More Institute’s Young Persons’ Reading Group on the purpose of a university education. The presentation, and this article, are intended as a summary of and commentary upon an excellent article by Patrick J. Deneen to which we direct our readers: ‘Science and the […]

A draft Bill to complete the reform of the House of Lords is currently being worked on by an all-party parliamentary group. Many of a conservative bent view the prospect of Lords reform with horror as the final nail in the coffin of an ancient British (or English) Constitution. Those of a more progressive persuasion […]

From a guest blogger: The term ‘avant-garde’ is sometimes bandied around in reference to artistic movements that seek to push out the boundaries of aesthetic consideration. It rather assumes an element of rule-breaking bound up with attempts to re-imagine our perceptions of the world. At times these movements have been deeply introspective and focused on […]

What connects the Puritans and Professor David Nutt, the former government advisor who recently called for a radical rethink of state policy on drugs?  Not all that much, you might think, but read on. Twenty-first century folk love new things.  We have the ‘new right’, New Labour, the ‘new atheists’, and ‘the new politics’.  Yet […]