Starmer has become trapped in a confused world of his own making. He’s accepted an interpretation of international law which aids dictators over democracies. He’s alienating our closest ally whilst trying to appease Labour’s electoral base as well as its MPs.
Prof Kealey wrote on ConHome last week that The British Empire, cannot have been a good thing because the British did not build waterways. In fact, they built easily the most extensive waterways in the world at that time.
I think we should all agree personal and political patronage is ether ok, or we agree it is not. There is no half way house where one party is ok doing it and another isn’t.
My first list of appointments to the Lords are people who operate from first principles – Conservative principles. They have a track record of defending conservatism against the long march of the left in our institutions.
Adding firepower to the defence of the Lords should be the focus of Sunak’s list, and despite it all, we are blessed with some stellar people who can and should be elevated for this fight.
“We need to recognise that slavery was an accepted institution from the ancient period up unti the modern.”
Positive ideas of empire which in recent decades almost no one dared to express are emerging once more into public discourse.
Galloway is furthering a dangerous communalism – by dragging conflicts overseas towards the centre of domestic political discourse.
If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.
Clashes over Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion are noisy, nasty – and, by definition, impossible for Johnson to keep out of.
Lord Roberts is man of identity not of sophistry, economics or calculation. Equally, I wonder if the British imperial apologists have not bound up their identity with the idea of a noble Pax Britannica, and I wonder if that isn’t a misreading of the historical record.