The New Conservative

Frankhaviland

Women in the military

No Man’s Land

As a commentator on UK politics, it seems the good news get fewer and further between these days. That could of course be down to the fact that I’m a miserable bastard, a decade past my sell-by date; it could also be that Britain is drowning in a sea of its own piss.  This week’s […]

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Matt Perna

Matt Perna: In Memoriam 

De mortuis nil nisi bonum (never speak ill of the dead) is a maxim we might all care to revisit, particularly in these social media-obsessed times of instant news and instant response. While public and historic figures are unlikely to be afforded such niceties, generally speaking it must surely be the height of bad taste to

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Gentlemen

Safe Spaces for Men 

Being middle-aged, skint and male has precious little going for it, especially in the over-feminised age we find ourselves in. I confess there is a certain appeal to drinking oneself into oblivion chez the local gentlemen’s club. Unfortunately, while my cognac-laced cohorts idle the hours away grappling with the thorny conundrums of the age, the

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Smacking

Smacking Back in the Dock

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) unveiled a report this month, once more calling for the criminalisation of smacking in England and Northern Ireland: Scotland and Wales have paved the way for the UK to become a more equal society by removing the reasonable chastisement defence from their legislation. Political leaders in

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Mark Steyn

An Interview with Mark Steyn (Part I)

(Photograph: manningcentre, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of many books, including America Alone, After America, and Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and The Twilight of the West. His previous incarnations include broadcaster, film and theatre critic, and jazz musician. But for the purposes of this interview, it’s his role as

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Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf: Scotland’s Hate Monster

(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Anyone even vaguely familiar with Scotland will know the values she traditionally embodies: stoicism, courage (as the mellifluous reeds of the bagpipes attest in Scotland the Brave), and of course the hard-earned ‘Freedom’ won from the bastard English, immortalised by William Wallace’s silver screen reincarnation,

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