“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.” Arthur Balfour (attrib.) It took, it is said, seven days for news of Abraham Lincoln’s death to reach London. This was comparatively speedy – Australia had to wait the best part of a month. By contrast, everyone with a phone or TV learned of the […]
Sublime Indifference Read More »
Second thoughts seem to be a feature of my life. Not, I think, due to chronic indecision or a personality prone to regret, but because that is just the way my mind seems to work. A thought bubbles up, seemingly from nowhere, and then I decide what to do with it. If it is interesting
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We are yet again paying the price of another ‘woke’ rebrand; this time, the burden will fall on our own pockets. British banknotes are set to change as the historical figures will be replaced by images of wildlife. This spells the end for the figures who have featured on the notes for over 50 years.
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Schadenfreude is, we can assume, a universal human emotion. Barely had the first Iranian strikes been launched towards the U.A.E., than some social media users felt the need to point this fact out to the country’s expats. Yes, the weather may be nice, the lack of income tax attractive, but neither were worth finding oneself at
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Cook Ding was a master, butchering animals with balletic precision. So impressive was his craft that one day his employer, Lord Wen Hui, asked for an explanation. He hadn’t always had the skill, the cook said. When he started, he had seen the animal in its totality, just one big hunk of meat, so he
Recently, following a single complaint, a TfL video telling men not to harass women has been pulled, because it features a black person doing the harassing. So continues our Orwellian, inverted looking glass universe that the political and media class like to promulgate. I have some knowledge of what things are like on the streets of
“You should have stayed at university and become a philosopher,” my Dad told me one day. This wasn’t quite as random as it might sound. We’d had dinner a few weeks earlier and he had told me that he had seen there was going to be a documentary about Wittgenstein on TV. Knowing that I
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I hate updating my website. It is a chore. So, I put it off, depriving the literal handful of bots who visit it on a good day access to the latest flowering of my thought. It is not because it is hard – it is one of those off-the-shelf freebies which even idiots can master
Dear readers, This is a very brief note to let you know the state of play at The New Conservative. I have been hit by something nearing the perfect storm in terms of a personal life of late, and must rapidly begin a new job, move house, and negotiate my divorce appeal as it reaches
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Life is like a jailer. As it wanders down the block, large ring of keys jangling on its hip, you never entirely know which cell it is going to unlock, and which memory will emerge, blinking, into the light. Just writing down three numbers the other day instantly shaved decades off my age. For the
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