Social care reform and the west’s fiscal future | OC Comment
The Prime Minister’s new social care reform is an attempt to reform the outdated and dysfunctional care system. Unfortunately, it has stumbled on the issue that perennially flagellates all economic activity: scarcity. Even with increased taxes that are projected to raise £12 billion over the next three years, the fact remains that there is not enough money to go around.
Technology will not save us; how the new environmentalism is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past | Charlie Goulbourne
The much-loved liberal maxim “global problems require global solutions” may finally be proven false. The greatest global crisis of our time, climate change, is perhaps best tackled with local, not global, initiatives. Traditional environmental and agricultural practises of local agroforestry, intercropping, crop rotation and organic composting may be amongst the most effective ways of mitigating the effects of climate change.
Duty’s spectacular decline in Western nations | Tom Colsy
It is no coincidence that at the height of America’s civilisational prowess, President John F. Kennedy instructed citizens not to ask what the country could do for him, but instead ponder what he could do for his country. We could relearn a thing or two from that 1961 inaugural speech. Or, at least, take heed of G.K. Chesterton’s words, that “men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her”.
Social counter-reform | Dan Mikhaylov
We are exposed to these consequences of socio-cultural implosion in the streets and at work, and cannot be ignorant or turn a blind eye to this process of internal disfigurement… Therefore, our action must also be explicit, and not implicit, to safeguard what remains of Britain’s social cohesion, to reverse the tide. At this stage, two options are available to traditionalists: intransigent insistence on the past, and pragmatic counter-reform.
British history is world history - how do we teach it to empower all communities while respecting their sufferings? | Sam Hall
Let us celebrate the Churchills, the Kents and the Gurungs of this world. But to do so we must desegregate history… British History is not the exclusive preserve of white people any more than our island home is. These rolling hills, these pastures green, these lakes and derelict mills stand on a tapestry that all can enjoy and call their home. Neither Black Lives Matter nor All Lives Matter, but All British History Matters.
Levelling up Britain through distributism | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
All powers should not rest in Whitehall or in the big cities, but within our local communities… Distributism gives the intellectual and policy backing to that famous phrase from Margaret Thatcher, a “property-owning democracy”. Home ownership levels are falling across Britain, a truly Distributist approach will see the building of aesthetic housing for the purpose of getting people into the business of owning a home.