Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
WITH the growing possibility of people in Britain being imprisoned for their political, moral or religious beliefs – ‘hate crimes’ perceived to be ‘motivated by hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity’ are already offences carrying jail sentences – reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1968 novel The First Circle over Christmas proved a disturbing experience. Some reflections on it seem timely. Set […]
PHILOSOPHER John Gray says we are in an era of ‘illiberal liberalism’ characterised by a growing tendency to espouse contrived and feeble ideological positions, and to promote them with dogmatic zeal, stifling all opposition and denying others the tolerance that granted the freedom to express such opinions in the first place. The speed with which […]
PLEASE send your letters (as short as you like) to info@conservativewoman.co.uk and mark them ‘Letter to the Editor’. We need your name and a county address, eg Yorkshire or London. Letters may be shortened. There is no guarantee of publication. *** Lesson from the Post Office scandal Dear Editor, Mr Bates vs The Post Office (available on ITVX) is a brilliant […]
On our return from the festive break, I am handing over the first item once more to DEREK REYNOLDS. WHAT is it about sheds? My wife has a shed in our garden; it’s almost buried in ivy and clematis, and inside are the remains of charity shop window displays that she has created and is […]
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The question I should like at least to open is whether G.K. Chesterton had not both the deeper and greater mysticism, a mysticism closer to that of the saints, and a message far more valuable for the millions whose place is on the plains of daily effort and not on the mountains of asceticism and […]
By any measure Taylor Swift had an incredible year. Her “Eras” concert tour sold out stadiums around the country. She released several albums (including some of the Taylor’s version re-recordings), she dominated Spotify with four albums that each have over 7 billion streams. And of course she was named Person of the Year by Time […]
Forrest McDonald demonstrated that the historian above all must be a pragmatist who looks at the reality of the past as it was, who gets his hands dirty by putting in long hours of research, who makes sense of vast quantities of data, and who then communicates what he has found in an understandable and […]
The Iowa caucus is only a little more than a week away and you can almost smell the desperation in the air among all of the GOP hopefuls who don’t have a last name that rhymes with “thump.” But you have to give them credit for hanging in there and continuing to swing for the […]
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