Abortion was legalised for Britain in 1967 by the Labour Party. It was formally legal only in a limited number of cases and up to 28 weeks from conception. If…
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The issue of sexual assault has been at the forefront of the public mind of late. This is largely due to the shocking revelations of a study released in March…
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Western liberalism prides itself on having achieved a ‘meritocracy’. Like – in a different way – the Greek conception of an aristocracy, a meritocracy allows for rule by the best…
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Attacks on churches by Islamists in Europe are now commonplace. In 2018 there were 877 acts that damaged church property in France. There are no official statistics for 2019 church…
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It seems every political issue has come increasingly to resemble a moral ‘rumble in the jungle’. The latest issue to fall victim to moral pugilists is the Free School Meals…
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Today the fallacy that truth and morals are relative is pervasive and this has led to a pretence in the West that all cultures are a priori to be regarded as equal.…
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Oscar Wilde, introducing The Picture of Dorian Gray gave what seemed a damning critique of art: ‘All art is quite useless’. Perhaps he was right. Art is certainly not useful in any…
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Facebook has given new meaning to the saying, ‘Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit’. Social media has brought with it great benefits, but one of the biggest problems…
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There is the most extraordinary thing in the air at present, whereby we simultaneously seek to understand the brain as a computer, and the computer as a brain. Though no…
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Europe’s ageing population is an inconvenient truth for those who advocate social liberalism. Indeed, the liberalist path that the EU has trodden for many years now has led it to the brink…
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