Published on
20 January 2012
Posted in Conscience, Culture, Human Rights, Liberty, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Virtue
From a guest blogger: Some right-of-centre blogs have recently caught the eye. They concern chivalry and the unfortunate running aground of the Costa Concordia. ‘Women and children first used always to be the cry when all else was lost’, is the rough line taken by one commentator. At this point one can assume that whatever […]
Published on
30 December 2011
Posted in British Politics, Culture, Europe, Political Economy, Public Policy
From a Guest Blogger: We have yet to see what will be the ultimate results of David Cameron’s veto earlier this month. Rhetorically he has certainly scored a hit with a majority of the British people. Even many of those opposed to Cameron’s decision have not gone so far as to declare that the Prime […]
Published on
25 November 2011
Posted in Culture, Ethics in the Media, Moral Philosophy, Social Commentary, Virtue
From a Guest Blogger: Margaret Thatcher once told the American Bar Association not to give terrorists the ‘oxygen of publicity’. Should we, perhaps, follow her advice and refrain from commenting on Benetton’s latest PR stunt turned advertising campaign? If we ignore it, will it not go away? There is good reason to think otherwise, for […]
Published on
2 November 2011
The failings of inner-city schools have long provided commentators and policy makers with subject-matter. They have been productive of guilt-ridden attempts at solutions. Last week, in The Times we read an article of interest on this topic. Greg Martin, Head of the Durand Academy, a primary school, has purchased a former boarding school in the […]
Published on
14 October 2011
From a Guest Blogger: The garden is mourning, the rain sinks coolly into the flowers. Summer shudders as it meets its end. Herman Hesse Many have mourned the passing of Steve Jobs, in testament to a legacy of ingenuity rarely equalled in recent years. Even those with only half an eye on the media and […]
Published on
28 September 2011
Posted in Culture, Social Commentary
From a Guest Blogger: After the erection of The Times pay wall I have been confined to the websites of The Telegraph and The Guardian for my broadsheet news. These two papers appear at times to be simply the right- and left-wing pages of a single pan-political publication – and very much so on Monday. […]
Published on
27 June 2011
From a Guest Blogger: Having grown up not five miles from Stonehenge I feel a certain affinity with the stones and with the surrounding countryside. The area is fantastic for walks and many views are stunning: that from my bedroom at sunset was one of the best though unfortunately there is no chance of seeing […]
Published on
10 June 2011
Posted in Culture, Europe, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Public Policy, Social Commentary, Virtue, World Affairs
‘We live in an age of growing self-indulgence, of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards… When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that divorce and separation are responsible for some of the darkest evils in […]