The Year in Review: 2020, was “Mostly Peaceful” [sic]
2020 will be remembered as the year that was “mostly peaceful” – meaning, it was anything but. Indeed, the phrase “mostly peaceful” – followed closely…
Tory
2017 Symposium – Alastair Paynter
Whither Albion? Whither Europe? 2016 showed itself to be the year of possibility. Things which seemed unlikely or nigh impossible a mere two or three…
Quote of the Week: Hugh Cecil, “Conservatism”
“The centre of the Constitution is the Monarchy. Probably everyone would agree in naming the Monarchy as an institution which is was desirable to preserve,…
The Bitter Fruit of Idiocracy
We’ve written previously about the rising specter of anarcho-tyranny in Australia. It seems that as every week passes by, there is yet another example of…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Gentle Regrets”
“Ideas, in the Tory vision, are fleeting by products of the social and political process, which are no sooner produced than forgotten. In this and…
Quote of the Week: Anthony Ludovici, “A Defence of Conservatism”
“The opposition of a great conservative like the Seventh Earl of Shaftsbury to the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the Ballot Act of…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part IV: Natural Rights
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” — Robert Frost One of the most…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “The Devil Was Sick, The Devil a Monk Would Be.”
“The trouble about the Conservative Party is that nobody can still suppose there will be any resemblance between what they say before an election and…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
“Death of Hazel Hawke” and “Diversity Strikes London, Again”
Who was it who said we lived in a boring world? Two events in yesterday’s news prove that history has certainly not yet ended (pace…