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The Modern Worldview –‘the birth of reason’

In the last post it was suggested that a common, inclusive framework of values that would unite us as a society in a shared vision is to be found, not in a notion of ‘British Values’ but in ‘Modern...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali – A Voice That Should Be Heard

I have been following the work of Ayaan Hirsi Ali for over a decade. She has been writing about Islam and the rise of Islamic Extremism extremely eloquently and forcefully since 9/11. The excellent...

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BREXIT?? – great article by Janice Turner!

The following article beautifully articulates the class divide at the heart of the primary Brexit issue – that of free movement of labour. I have sat at a number of such dinners with family and...

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Rotherham Grooming Scandal – Courageous statement from within the Pakistani...

The link below is to an excellent article by Mohammed Shafiq. It is refreshingly honest and points towards the type of analysis and action that is required on this issue. Analysis that is still,...

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Hysterical Lefties Really Need to Grow Up – Libby Purves

Libby Purves (The Times 27/6/2016 As the culturati weep into their lattes while demonising the poor, old and insecure, the carry-on has been beyond parody It has been a particularly grim couple of...

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The left is creating a new kind of apartheid – Mat Ridley

Matt Ridley (published in the Times 28/11/16) The student union at King’s College London will field a team in University Challenge that contains at least 50 per cent “self-defining women, trans or...

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What’s bad for white women is bad for all women

Louise Casey I have spent the past year touring the country conducting a review into integration and opportunity in our most isolated communities. I have heard numerous personal accounts that have...

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Let’s stop treating the young as political sages

Clare Foges We should be challenging the naive, unaffordable views of many under-25s, not kowtowing to them ‘Respect your youngers,” tweeted the pop star Lily Allen after the shock election result...

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Corbynites don’t see this as real democracy

  Daniel Finkelstein Labour’s leader and shadow chancellor believe the people’s will is expressed on the street and shopfloor more than parliament <img class=”Media-img”...

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Violent leftwingers are the alt-right’s useful idiots

Melanie Phillips Published in the Times 15/8/17 It is a caricature of what happened in Charlottesville to call Trump and his supporters racists President Trump has been on the defensive over his...

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