Humans kill bulls intentionally, in the name of entertainment, whereas hounds kills foxes instinctively. Is that an important distinction?
The Prime Minister has given an interview, which reminds us of another one…
She should leave her family at home, and consult a source of imperishable wisdom Tories have drawn from for 200 years.
This policy refuses to recognise local choice, is supported by a poor evidence base, and proposes large-scale upheaval for uncertain gain.
Our country, families, the environment, home – we love them all. The object of life is love and we ought to aspire toward the triumph of love.
Labour could have done better with a different leader and a different strategy. But its error was its usual one: to assume moral superiority
The Chamber’s culture change is for the worse – and it serves voters ill at a time when the country’s future is threatened.
Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.
His critique of the teaching of politics is a simple one. In his view, it is not a mode of experience. So the language of politics is not genuinely a language of explanation.
Why I disagree with the case set out on this site by its former Editor a week ago.
It is neither paternalistic nor libertarian, but grounded in a “compassionate conservatism” whose roots lie in Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
Private enterprise, not the state, drove eighteenth century British prosperity and can do so again
Edmund Burke on child abuse claims – and regime change.
As the Greek proverb has it: “a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
I am an optimist: I believe that we respond more immediately and sympathetically to appeals to the needs of future generation than almost any other political argument