Greetings, I'm Alex and I'm a Classics student at Oxford. My main interests include history and philosophical conservatism and its development. I was a Conservative Party member, but left after becoming dissilusioned. I've also written a book called 'The Conservation of Liberty'.
An explanatory look at the economic thought of Edmund Burke, our namesake. Particular attentions is paid to natural law, lassez-faire, charity and free trade. A great read for…
An explanatory look at the social thought of Edmund Burke, our namesake. Particular attentions is paid to the social contract, the little platoons, English rights and culture,…
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…
One of Apostolic Christianity’s perhaps best-known customs is the veneration of the Virgin Mary. Amongst many Protestant denominations it is also perhaps the most ridiculed…
Welcome, all newcomers, to my Burkean blog. The focus of this little corner of the site will be (usually) brief gobbets approaching ethics, ideology, and political history…