Easier exams will only worsen our poor record on foreign languages
As it is, accompanying a UK visitor to any university or other organisation on the Continent is a…
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Easier exams will only worsen our poor record on foreign languages
As it is, accompanying a UK visitor to any university or other organisation on the Continent is a shaming experience. Most organisations there take it for granted that a…
Cardinal Virtues: Temperance
Human nature has not fundamentally changed in the past two millennia, we are still prone to the same weaknesses as our forebears. Temperance has been selected out of all the…
Sacrificing freedom for selfism
Against this tide it would seem impossible to make the case for self-restraint and modesty; words so arcane and unfamiliar that they wouldn’t even be reflected on before being…
The Globalists Last Stand: Part 5
These same MPs voted overwhelmingly to hold the EU referendum which voters were assured was binding. They voted overwhelmingly to trigger Article 50. They stood for a general…
Christian persecution, moral reticence
Perhaps we are witnessing what post-religious morality looks like? People are only deserving of charity if they fit into the historical, geographical and political fashions of…
We cannot have a US trade deal and remain in the customs union
America covers almost a quarter of the world’s economy, and is already Britain’s largest trading partner and main destination to send and receive overseas investment. This…
One law for MPs, another for everyone else?
In the twentieth century we worked long and hard to get rid of privileged castes and reach the position where anyone, plutocrat, pauper or politician, was entitled to the…
