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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Western military intervention in the Middle East, however well-intentioned its perpetrators may have been – or wished to be – has often caused more problems than it has solved. The…
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The election of President Trump in the USA, and the successful Brexit campaign here in the UK, may be seen in retrospect as significant incisions in globalism’s death of a…
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The more we learn about the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests the less clearcut things become. One video that has surfaced shows mostly white protestors remonstrating with mostly black police officers,…
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It is now almost one month since the Building Better, Building Beautiful commission, co-chaired by the late Sir Roger Scruton, released its report. The Commission existed to reclaim beauty in architecture, or…
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Democracy is seen by most people, much of the time, as one of the brightest jewels in the crown of Western culture. Unlike the slavery-based ancient Athenian democracy, it is…
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‘All the Lonely People’, an article published in 2018 in The Economist, highlighted the financial implications of loneliness. What was perhaps most striking about the article was its stressing of…