The New Conservative

Russell David

Post box

The Post Office

After being thrown out of my job in publishing by mediocre tyrants in thrall to a twisted ideology, I went four months unemployed but recently secured temporary work at the Royal Mail doing Christmas sorting. Echoing Charles Bukowski, here’s what I’ve found there. Everyone is very nice. Or at least, they are real – unlike […]

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Westminster turned into a mosque

Britain’s Future

What future does this country have? 2029 At the general election, no party is able to get an overall majority. And so a coalition of Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, Muslim independents and other assorted Left-wing MPs come together to form a government. 2030 A dozen churchgoers are slaughtered by Islamic terrorists on Christmas

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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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