The New Conservative

Russell David

Mass immigration

What Everyone – Including the Right – Gets Wrong About Immigration

Fraser Nelson can easily be criticised for his hagiographic attitude to 21st century multiracial Britain, with his belief that we generally rub along fine, violent crime has never been lower and things are really pretty good, but his detractors miss the point. Nelson misses something far more fundamental about what we’ve become. He’s not the only […]

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Christopher Hitchens

The Day I Met Christopher Hitchens

Atheism isn’t very fashionable on the Right nowadays. It never really was. But I never saw a conflict between unbelieving and Right-wing notions, in fact they seemed highly compatible: evidence-based; a rejection of utopian thinking; rational; grounded in reality. Thus around 20 years ago I was basking in ‘thrilling godlessness’, as Martin Amis had it,

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