De mortuis nil nisi bonum (never speak ill of the dead) is a maxim we might all care to revisit, particularly in these social media-obsessed times of instant news and instant response. While public and historic figures are unlikely to be afforded such niceties, generally speaking it must surely be the height of bad taste to […]
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Following on from his initial manifesto post, Alastair MacMillan moves on to energy policy: At present, UK energy policy hangs round the Climate Change and Net Zero Acts that are predicated on one view of why the climate has shown signs of warming over the last forty years. There are other very valid scientific views that are
(Photograph: Mona, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) We can be thankful, so far, that the crumbling Conservative Party did not adopt the ridiculous APPG definition of Islamophobia. This definition, while claiming ‘that Muslims are subject to a system of discrimination, control and socio-economic exclusion, alongside hate crime, harassment and abuse’ also wanted the
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(Photograph: Zairon, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In 1996, Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning was voted as Britain’s favourite post-war poem. It is not hard to see why, for it is a funny poem in which the narrator declares that after a lifetime of decorum, she will engage in unconventional behaviour when she is
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Imagine if Lord Nelson had issued orders aboard HMS Victory to ‘prepare to repel boarders’, the marines mustered and they asked, ‘what with Captain?’ It strikes me that we face a similar situation here in the UK. What’s more, many of the boarders have already boarded, undetected until now, and are busy poking holes in
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Being middle-aged, skint and male has precious little going for it, especially in the over-feminised age we find ourselves in. I confess there is a certain appeal to drinking oneself into oblivion chez the local gentlemen’s club. Unfortunately, while my cognac-laced cohorts idle the hours away grappling with the thorny conundrums of the age, the
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In a recent online article, the BBC informed its readers that according to the National Skills Academy for Rail, the average train driver is forty-six years old, male and white. You know that when the BBC reports something like that, it is a cue for yet another condescending lecture about various ‘isms’ and the need
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When times are good, the social contract makes for an attractive proposition: the citizen accepts the surrender of certain freedoms to the state in exchange for protection, maintenance of the social order, and representation come election time. It must be said however, that in Britain we are currently far from the best of times. If
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As ever, here at The New Conservative we are ahead of the curve. One of our investigative journalists has obtained a draft copy of the new Metropolitan Police Training Manual from Hendon College. The training manual contains the new, revised curriculum for police cadets and is being kept under wraps until completion and launch on
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VisitBritain–Britain’s flagship tourism agency which provides you with fresh perspectives of the UK’s diverse cities, modern twists, historic icons and green spaces full of unexpected gems–has created a 50-page language guide for their workers that tells them what words they can and cannot say to secure an inclusive and innocuous workplace for everyone. The company,
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