The New Conservative

Peter Harris

Gareth Southgate

Sir Gareth Southgate?

I have a love-hate relationship with football. I love watching a midfield player curve the ball into the penalty box so that it lands with missile accuracy on the head of a forward who then nods it into the goal. I love too the great amount of charity work that clubs do, which is underreported. […]

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York Minster

Empty Words

According to Peter Rohde’s biography of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the great Danish philosopher recorded in his journal how a highly educated preacher was once invited to the King’s opulent court to speak to the richest and most powerful people in the land, and he chose to talk about how God chooses the humble and rejected.

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Margaret Thatcher

Conservatism

When the Labour Party chose Jeremy Corbyn as its leader, Peter Hitchens wrote an article for the Daily Mail asking whether the Conservative Party could choose a true conservative leader now that the Labour Party had a true socialist as theirs. What the Conservatives had as prime minister during Corbyn’s party leadership were three leaders

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Diversity

No Whites Allowed

Although the Christmas decorations are not yet back in their cardboard boxes, the Environment Agency has already cemented its plans for this summer. The Agency is offering forty summer internships to help undergraduates and recent postgraduates get a foot on the first rung of the environmental corporate ladder. Clearly, a good idea…except that White people

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Justin Welby

Justin Jellyby 

If you have read Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, I am sure you recall the character of Mrs Jellyby. If you are not acquainted with this figure of Dickensian satire, then allow me to introduce her to you. Mrs. Jellyby is a very wealthy woman, but a stupidly selective philanthropist. She devotes her time and

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Swimming pool

Racist Swimming Pools

Once upon a time, progressives were truly progressive. They had people like Dr Martin Luther King Jr., who believed sensible and decent things such as it is best to judge a person by the content of his or her character rather than by his or her skin colour. Ignore the late New Atheist Christopher Hitchens’

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Children

Policing Children’s Speech

So insanely far-reaching is ‘hate crime’ law in England that even children are now accused of it, and are being investigated by the police. According to a report by LBC, these children include a nine year old who called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two teenagers who told another student she smelt like a fish.

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Justin Trudeau

Trudeau’s New Low

Known for their ethics of non-violence and the forgiveness of enemies, how easy it is for people who hate Christians to persecute them. Now if Jesus had advocated violence and conquest as a way of spreading the faith and had given his blessing to armed resistance and terrorism, potential persecutors would leave Christians well alone.

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Justin Welby

Archbishop of Cant

Archbishop Justin Welby has just announced that he is resigning for failing to bring the abusive Church of England lay reader John Smyth to justice. And it is about time too, for the stench of hypocrisy that emanates from Welby (and the self-righteous Smyth too) is worse than old sewage. Welby, who has thundered against

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Donald Trump

Mind Your Language

When I was an acne-encrusted and angst-driven teenager in the eighties, one of the risqué things to do was to watch the comedy The Young Ones. For those too young to know of this series, it concerned the lives of four university students renting a house together. Each was a student stereotype: Vyvyan the anarchic

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