The Censorship Boomerang

Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They fooled themselves. The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends. 

The …

What Roger Scruton can teach Starmer

Not long into David Cameron’s first term as Prime Minister, the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton refounded an old Tory dining club that had, for a short time in the Seventies, exerted an outsized influence on British politics. The Conservative Philosophy …

In defence of Brits Abroad

Shagaluf. Ayia Napa. Marbella. Beefa.

Scouring maps of southern Europe like a Napoleonic general, the Brit Abroad plots his summer holidays. He seeks abandon, hot sun, cold beer and cheap 20-packs of Camel Blue. Territory selected, he readies his armoury: …