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Pope Leo

The Democratic Party at Prayer

It is over a decade since the BBC questioned whether the Church of England was still the ‘Tory Party at prayer’. In 2014, reckoning that most English Anglicans voted Conservative, it concluded that it was. It is doubtful if that is still the case, so obsessed with minority rights, reparations and institutional racism is the […]

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Black Queen Elizabeth II

The Blackwashing of Britain

Of all the famous ‘conspiracy theories’, the Great Replacement (that white populations in Western countries are being systematically replaced by non-white immigrants) is arguably the most well-known. I have always been reluctant to entertain it, partly on the grounds that conspiracies are usually oversimplifications of more complex issues; partly because political incompetence gets you to

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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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Train commuters

The Hate Crime 

It had been many years since I was last on a commuter train. This is not, I confess, a particular source of sadness. From an early age, it was noted that my concept of personal space was not dissimilar to the Roman Empire’s view of physical space – what’s mine is mine and what’s yours

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Kids running

The Dangers of ‘Safeguarding’

Bleak news for the 9,000 primary school children served by the Merton School Sports Partnership which has decided to ban parents and spectators from their sports events. As usual ‘safeguarding’ is used as justification: “Over the years we have sadly observed an increase in safeguarding concerns when parents/carers come to support their children at our

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