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...

The social credit system is coming in. By various means. Another acronym that people had better start deciphering – ESG. Environmental...

Technocrats are Incompetents Recent years have seen a systematic erosion of democracy and constant denigration of democratic governance....

Against the Year Zero Mindset and Reset A culture is rooted and organic, forged through time and experience and maintained by warm,...

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,...

Being and Place I would like to write a short commentary on Being and Place, with the express intention of underlining the practical...

A conservatism which tells government – or any other collective entity - to stay out of the lives of individuals isn't conservatism at...

Ejecting but not Rejecting Liberalism This piece is in response to Steven Tucker's essay The cult of progress: John Stuart Mill’s prison...

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...

“Anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.” - St. Thomas Aquinas I want to talk about the so-called culture wars. I hate...

Prospects for a New Politics The Left is based on universality and solidarity. The most stupid and self-defeating thing the Left could...

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...

“I remember when we had: a working NHS, free university education, public libraries; an integrated railway service; subsidised railway...

It is interesting to see a quantitative portrayal of the age we have been living through. People will feel the diremption and the...

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...

“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...

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...

The Left is Socialist and Universalist or it is no Left at all “The entire historical and political basis of the Left is solidarity,...

Observations on Charles Fourier Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable series of utopias envisaging the radical...

The Abolition of the Public Good "In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in...