Many years ago my wife and I had dinner with a very senior and once prominent civil servant and his wife. The civil servant was seeing his days out in the House of Lords. They were charming and interesting company, indiscreet even. When talking about our respective families, it transpired that their daughter was an […]
Apparently ‘countryside’ is not just another word for killing Guardian readers, it is the name of a place which occupies 90 per cent of the British landscape. Less than a fifth of the British population live in the countryside. If we are to believe the Wildlife and Countryside Link (WCL) charity, which claims to represent
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When I was a child, the BBC was unquestionably the home of quality television. Who can forget the magical 1984 Christmas treat, “The Box of Delights,” or the comedy genius of “Blackadder” and “Only Fools and Horses”? “Doctor Who” even had my father glued to the screen back in the 1980s. Times change, however. Thanks
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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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The Labour party is promising to add VAT to school fees, in truth because they are anti private education (though they will of course not admit this). Whilst as Conservatives we should be against this proposal, it does raise an interesting question: if members of the public pay privately for services that the state promises
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There is nothing like inclement weather to bring the best out of the nanny state. We are having some stormy weather here in the UK and you could, honestly, be forgiven for thinking that wind is a completely new phenomenon. We are experiencing Storm Isha, soon to be followed by Storm Jocelyn and we must
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Of all the crises afflicting the West, the rejection of truth in favour of fashionable lies is conceivably the most dangerous. And nowhere is the woke war on reality more apparent than in ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ (DEI). As more and more industries are overrun by this bilge, our nations race to unlearn the truths
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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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Reluctant as I am to bash my bishop, especially in a public forum, I am afraid that I must. After all, this is not the first such bashing he has received. As I left Mass on Sunday I picked up our diocesan newspaper Voice (January 2024; issue 496). It is free and I am a
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I am a nurse, so I have some insight into what the job takes. I was a staff nurse, charge nurse and night superintendent (essentially a male matron). I have taught nurses at university level for nearly 40 years. I firmly believe in university-level education for nurses and have no time for arguments that everything
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