The following exchange I had with the BBC illustrates how hard that is. Me to the BBC In the reporting of the change to the abortion law in the USA, you repeatedly and consistently treated the matter as having to do with and only with “care” and the withdrawal of the right to it for […]
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A lesson that the state—the modern, enlightened, left-liberal, Anglo-Saxon state—finds hard to learn is where the limits of its power lie. It fancies it can do all sorts of things that can’t be done. It does seem to have learned that it can’t do what it likes abroad but only because ‘abroad’ has shown itself
The Great Leviathan or the Great Humbug? Read More »
I don’t want to underestimate the need to fight the culture wars but, sooner or later (though probably not by Christmas), they will be over and we shall wake up from the bad dream of wokery. But what will we wake up to? Almost certainly not anything to gladden a conservative. For dislocations and derangements
When This Lousy War is Over … Read More »
Very few people think killing, however deliberate, wrong in itself, necessarily and always wrong, wrong just because it is killing. Nobody (next to nobody) thinks one soldier killing another in battle wrong, even when the war is unjust. And, probably, even fewer think killing in self-defence or defence of another wrong.
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Dear Sir, There are the conservatively inclined who say we can’t choose our ‘genders’, there are only two and we are born either one or the other. But in saying so, they contradict themselves. As soon as we speak as if the difference between male and female were grammatical not biological we concede the case we
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Do British universities, as they are presently run, ‘advance education, learning and research’ for the ‘public benefit’, as required by charity law? Do the high salaries paid to CEO-like Vice-Chancellors? If not, then what? Mary Synge has an answer: “If a university is a charity, it is as much a charity as any other and must comply with the full reach of charity law” and if it behaves in a way that is not “in the best interests” of its charitable purpose “charity law makes the basis for a challenge.”
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