Since Margaret Thatcher’s meteoric rise to become the great talisman of the conservative movement, conservatives up and down the country have increasingly ignored the cries of the poor. This vincible ignorance, as Aquinas would put it, is a canker at the very heart of the Tory Party today, and represents all that is wrong with …
The Gospel of John provides us with Christ’s view on friendship – ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends’. This notion of friendship as a sacrificial bond, generated in a loving concourse, is the account of friendship we must endeavour to return to. This agape …
C.S. Lewis, Anglicanism’s most praised son, said ‘to love at all is to be vulnerable’. Never has this been more evident in my life than in my enduring passion for, and delight in, my beloved Church of England. It was a mild Spring day in 1999 when my father fainted. He was not, nor is, …
“Blue Beyond is grass-roots initiative created to engage Young Conservatives from across the United Kingdom.” As soon as I land on their website I already have a feel for the essence of Blue Beyond: a surprisingly radical phrasing of a mundane quality (grass-roots), a dash of defeatism (in the assumption that the party means nothing …
Taking a break from my dissertation last week, I watched an episode of South Park. (S22 E9) I also recently reread a favourite novel; Nancy Mitford’s Pursuit of Love. That two such different forms of media could touch upon so similar themes inspired this piece. In the South Park episode, young Butters Scotch looks forward …
For many like myself, who rank firmly within the bottom-right corner on a conventional political compass, the times we live in can be particularly challenging. The coronavirus pandemic not only represents an existentialist test to public health strategy and community resolve, but also to the ideology of a great many people. In recent weeks we …
