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The Labour Party’s worrying plans for higher education
The Labour Party are seeking to put their ideological mark on the higher education system. Opposed to competition, in favour of identity politics - these ideas should worry us…
Blame soft, liberal justice for Britain’s high incarceration rates
A toxic combination of soft-sentencing and a complete lack of prison authority have left our prisons in a rotten state. We must restore the principle of deterrence to have any…
Book Review: The Ideology of Failure by Stephen Pax Leonard
Alex Illingworth offers up his latest review of 'The Ideology of Failure', a book published by Stephen Pax Leonard. Described by Alex as "a highly original approach to the…
Is the SDP really a home for social conservatives?
The abject failure of The Conservative Party to adequately represent its conservative supporters has led growing numbers to consider the SDP, revived and with a slightly…
Contra Anarchy: A Refutation of Anarcho-Christianity
My longstanding interest in Anarchism has led me to consider the relevance and validity of Anarcho-Christianity. Unfortunately, I find it both theologically wanting and…
Degree proliferation is damaging universities and students, we must preserve academic excellence.
A bad education is worse than no education. Gibbon rightly pointed to this when he described the Emperor Valentinian, who nearly founded the university in the Roman world, as…
True Unionists support devolution – we cannot restore a dead order
To say that true Unionists support devolution can seem counter-intuitive considering its fiercest opponents have usually argued that devolution undermined the Union. However,…
