From pantomimes in church halls to adaptations of books in provincial theatres to RSC productions at the Barbican, I have enjoyed a lot of theatre in my time. Who my fellow audience members might be has never determined whether I watch a play or not. Even school children at matinees do not put me off […]
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If there is one thing the commissars at Labour HQ could learn from Joseph Stalin it is this: if you are going to purge your party of those who have unacceptable political opinions, you need to do it thoroughly. Of course, I am not recommending that Sir Keir, NKVD-style, rounds up all his party’s conspiracy
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(Photograph: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) A phenomenon that is insupportable to the left is a black person who has been successful by his or her own efforts, and not because of positive discrimination or hiring quotas. According to socialists, black people are without exception impoverished, marginalised and oppressed, and therefore
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I once worked for a university located in Texas and I noticed that my co-workers took pride in being Texan and had a spirit of independence. Brexit made perfect sense to them. Unlike the English who are expected to apologise abjectly and relentlessly to foreigners for their history and society by masochistic Anglophobes on the
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Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the British Army, has declared that Britain will need a ‘citizens army’ in the event of war with Russia. By this he means that the British Army is too small to play its NATO role and will need to be much augmented by volunteers if the proverbial push comes to
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Sunday 21 January 2024 is the centenary anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. It might come as a surprise to readers of The New Conservative that during my late teens and early twenties, I was an apologist for the Bolsheviks and their leader Lenin. At a university interview at Warwick, I remember declaring that I had
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(Photograph: Mark Steyn Show, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Defending Douglas Murray, the associate editor of The Spectator, is akin to defending a lion. He is one of the most effective critics of left-wing identity politics today. Yet in the culture war that this kind of politics has unleashed on the West, it
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The Observer, the sister newspaper to The Guardian, has recently published an article that attacks Israel journalists for, of all things, promoting Israeli’s victory in its war on Hamas. In an article titled “‘Journalists see their role as helping to win’: how Israeli TV is covering Gaza war,” Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum complain how
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(Photograph: VisitCopenhagen, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) According to opinion polls, most Australians wish to remove the British monarch as their head of state and become a republic. Thus, in anticipation of their glorious revolution, if and whenever that will be, King Charles does not appear on Australian banknotes. During their broadcast of
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The only time I have seen a celebrity in the flesh was on Cambridge’s Trumpington Street. I had gone to the bank one Saturday lunchtime to withdraw cash and on returning to my college, there, walking towards me, was the tall, expansive figure of Stephen Fry. As one who had laughed along with millions of
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