Where the consumer is king, those who can best package the darker corners of ourselves can do very well indeed.
The demographic tide can’t be turned back, but its advance can be slowed – by the self-reinforcing triangle of stronger families, better schools, good jobs, and the stronger society that these help to build.
The decision involves children, parents, schools and doctors, and has implications for rights, mental health, responsibilities and culture – as well as the management of a restive parliamentary party.
Maybe the future isn’t Leavers v Remainers, or even Conservative v Labour. Perhaps its truth v post-truth – Rowling v Dorries. I’m with Rowling. You?
As John le Carré said, falling in love while still at school with poets who write in a foreign language can be quite wonderful.
His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
Seoul built a strong technical base, and then concentrated state support on producers with proven commercial and global appeal.
“But the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation have procured; Alleluia!” A very Happy Easter to all our readers.
“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death…as well our Saviour has destroyed.”
“There was darkness over the earth…and about the ninth hour Jesus cried aloud: ‘My God why hast thou forsaken me?’ ”
I wouldn’t want my daughter to grow up in the patriarchal society portrayed in Pride & Prejudice – but that doesn’t mean she cannot be inspired by Elizabeth Bennett.