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Destructive Democrats
Destructive Democrats Did anyone expect the Democrats to learn anything from defeat? The lessons are for others to learn. Democrats, in...
Peter Critchley
Feb 511 min read
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The Love That Transcends
I wrote this back in 2020 but filed it away for another day and promptly forgot it. I intended to expand the ideas here in light of the...
Peter Critchley
Aug 15, 20237 min read
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The Social Credit Regime
The social credit system is coming in. By various means. Another acronym that people had better start deciphering – ESG. Environmental...
Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 20234 min read
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Technocrats are Incompetents
Technocrats are Incompetents Recent years have seen a systematic erosion of democracy and constant denigration of democratic governance....
Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 20232 min read
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Against Blank Sheet Progressivism
Against the Year Zero Mindset and Reset A culture is rooted and organic, forged through time and experience and maintained by warm,...
Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 202318 min read
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Of Gods and Slaves
Reflections on my book from 2012 Of Gods and Gaia: Men as Gods Gambling with the Earth Ideas about body and soul, mind and consciousness,...
Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 202320 min read
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The Politics of Being and Place
Being and Place I would like to write a short commentary on Being and Place, with the express intention of underlining the practical...
Peter Critchley
Jun 17, 202352 min read
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Reclaiming Conservatism
A conservatism which tells government – or any other collective entity - to stay out of the lives of individuals isn't conservatism at...
Peter Critchley
Jun 10, 20235 min read
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Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism - the Post-Liberal Case
Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...
Peter Critchley
May 10, 20238 min read
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Thoughts on the Coronation
Thoughts on the Coronation Or, It's much easier to criticise the old than to challenge the new. "We do not merely study the past: we...
Peter Critchley
May 7, 202357 min read
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Stand Up, Speak Out, Push Back
“Anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.” - St. Thomas Aquinas I want to talk about the so-called culture wars. I hate...
Peter Critchley
Apr 14, 202327 min read
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Prospects for a New Politics
Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...
Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 202334 min read
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Recovering the Working Class Voice
I was intrigued to learn that Julie Burchill started to follow me on Twitter. It took me by surprise. I don't do much on there except...
Peter Critchley
Apr 4, 20234 min read
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Reclaiming and Re-Grounding Socialism
“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...
Peter Critchley
Apr 3, 20235 min read
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The Need to Resolidify
It is interesting to see a quantitative portrayal of the age we have been living through. People will feel the diremption and the...
Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 20235 min read
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Masculine Feminine
I said goodbye and good riddance to the Left in politics a few years ago. It is patently obvious that Leftists not only have zero...
Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 202315 min read
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A Proximal Politics
“To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of...
Peter Critchley
Mar 23, 20233 min read
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Above and Beyond All Sides Now
Above and Beyond All Sides Now "I don’t know which side anybody is on any more. I don’t really care. There is a moment when we have to...
Peter Critchley
Mar 11, 20233 min read
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The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all
The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...
Peter Critchley
Jan 15, 202319 min read
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Observations on Charles Fourier
Observations on Charles Fourier Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable series of utopias envisaging the radical...
Peter Critchley
Nov 26, 202217 min read
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