Published on
12 April 2021
The issue of sexual assault has been at the forefront of the public mind of late. This is largely due to the shocking revelations of a study released in March that claimed 86% of women aged 18-24 had experienced sexual assault in a public space. A previous study in 2014 found that 33% of women […]
Published on
6 April 2021
Western liberalism prides itself on having achieved very largely a ‘meritocracy’. Like – in a different way – the Greek conception of an aristocracy, a meritocracy allows for rule by the best and brightest. Today’s meritocracy came in partly in rejection of the corruption of Europe’s old aristocratic ruling élite seen operating in the ancien […]
Published on
11 November 2020
Posted in British Politics, Ethics, Human Life, Morality in Public, Public Policy, Social Commentary
It seems every political issue has come increasingly to resemble a moral ‘rumble in the jungle’. The latest issue to fall victim to moral pugilists is the Free School Meals initiative pressed by footballer Marcus Rashford. During the first lockdown Rashford petitioned the government to offer ‘free school meals’ to Britain’s most disadvantaged children – […]
Published on
15 October 2020
Posted in British Politics, Public Policy, World Affairs
Today the fallacy that truth and morals are relative is pervasive and this has led to a pretence in the West that all cultures are a priori to be regarded as equal. This is in part due to loss of faith in the traditional modes of political organisation and cultural norms. There are many examples, […]
Published on
25 April 2020
Posted in British Politics, Culture, Social Commentary, World Affairs
The election of President Trump in the U.S.A., and the successful Brexit campaign here in the U.K., may be seen in retrospect as significant incisions in globalism’s death by a thousand cuts. Covid-19 might just be the last in a series. Globalism has, it is thought by many, played its role in the spreading of […]
Published on
11 April 2020
Posted in Big Society, British Politics, Europe, Liberalism, Marriage & Family, Social Commentary
Europe’s ageing population is an inconvenient truth for those who advocate social liberalism. Indeed, the liberalist path that the EU has trodden for many years now has led it to the brink of societal catastrophe. With a current fertility rate of 1.6 (average) in the EU27, dark clouds hover ominously over the economic future of […]
Published on
1 March 2020
Posted in British Politics, Europe, Morality in Public, Public Policy, World Affairs
Events like the outbreak of coronavirus should make us pause to think. It is no exaggeration at this point to assert that things appear poised on the brink of pandemic. At the time of writing, the virus has spread globally with fatalities in Iran reaching 19 and whole towns in Italy now in quarantine. Currently […]
Published on
14 February 2020
Posted in British Politics, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, World Affairs
Western military intervention in the Middle East, however well-intentioned its perpetrators may have been – or wished to be seen as – has often caused more problems than it has solved. The Gulf Wars had a disastrously destabilising effect on Iraq and the surrounding regions, and they created the conditions for radical Islamic extremism to […]