The author has the abilities of a sketchwriter, but not of Edmund Burke.
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
Racist opposition to immigration, notably in the former East Germany, does not mean reputable opposition is impossible.
In the same interview he said “I tend to be rather bad at politics”, which is true if one takes the holding of great offices of state as the yardstick of success.
We propose a new fund providing competitive grants exclusively to micro and small charities, which often provide services in isolated communities. And regulations should be set proportionate to charity income.
Burke would not have been impressed by large number of merely local concerns raised by MPs.
The measures would signal that we are a national community, membership of which brings particular rights and also obligations. It sounds pretty Conservative to me.
Pundits are scornful, and see “blue on blue” violence, when actually the Conservative Party is holding the necessary national argument.
“David was not cold and uncaring. He cared more, loved more, than any politician I have ever known, but critically, like his religious faith, he rarely showed it.”
It seldom occurs to this author that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and trust in the public’s common sense.
No society can operate on laws alone. The demonisation of opposition by both sides of the Brexit divide is dangerous.
The sparing of Rhodes’s statue, and the rows at Jesus College Cambridge and the National Trust, suggest conservatives are fighting back.
Spoiler alert. At the end of the movie, the space ship is saved, though only after an horrifically high number of those on board have died.
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
The option to “merely sit” is not available at present, since there is currently a battle of ideas between conservatism and its foes, and also one taking place within conservative thought itself.