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The riddle of Russia, Part 1

THE need for a better understanding of post-Cold War Russia in view of its war with Ukraine, has never been more pressing. The staggering toll of deaths and casualties for both countries, to which Western public opinion seems surprisingly indifferent, raises questions that Western media continue largely to ignore. What are the geopolitics? What is […]

Children’s Favourites: Bagpuss – The Conservative Woman

Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. This is the last in the series. ONLY 13 episodes were made, they each lasted less than a quarter of an hour and the main character was a saggy old cloth cat. Yet the 1974 series Bagpuss is lodged in the hearts of generations of […]

TCW Christmas reads: The Covid tyranny

Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power by Ramesh Thakur; Brownstone Institute, 2023 ‘THE years of living with oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance.’   One undoubted hero is the author of these words, Ramesh […]

TCW Readers’ Forum – The Conservative Woman

THIS is our daily open forum where readers can discuss current topics, bring up ideas or simply chat.  We suggest you keep your comments to no more than 250 words (and please respect our comments policy and be patient if your comments don’t appear straight away – it is not personal, it is Disqus and bear in mind that […]

How We Got New Year’s Day- The Imaginative Conservative

As you celebrate New Year’s Day remember that for one thousand years the welcoming of a new year was not just a calendar event, but a culturally religious event which linked the renewal of nature with the redemption of the world. Some atheists, Muslims, and Christian fundamentalists like to grumble and gibe that the celebration […]

Sunday Smiles – HotAir

2023 is almost over. Thank God. What an annus horibilis. As disunited as we are in the good ol’ USA, pretty much everybody agrees that things are not moving in the right direction. And, for the most part, we all blame Joe Biden. Biden is surely a big part of the problem, but only in […]

All in the Family: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 2:22–40: When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the […]