To remain authentically conservative, we must speak out against the systematic redistribution of wealth upward | Sam George
What has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen ex ante, is that the lockdowns have affected a monumental redistribution of wealth upward to almost Biblical proportions. The pockets of multinational businesses already predisposed to economic advantage… have been lined inversely proportional to the wealth lost by small, semi-competitive, local businesses.
Revisiting fusionism - revolutionary capitalism and conservative economics
Human relationships are now commodified, and those which cannot be, are simply cast aside as hurdles to economic growth. Houellebecq’s inherent pessimism may be singular, but his analysis of society will be shared by many who perceive in the ongoing dismantlement of social constructs a threat to the family’s “sentimental veil” and a step forward to its reduction “to a mere money relation”, as Marx had prophesised.
The crisis of neoliberal capitalism | Sam Hall
The socially conservative right, therefore, must stand unbowed in our defence of communal good arising yes from capitalism- but not from leaving human beings to the mercy of neoliberalism. To proclaim that whilst material goods can help life satisfaction, at its core remains the stable family unit with at least one working parent, and children that are consequently able to obtain the basic qualifications and life experience to themselves stay out of prison, poverty and provide for their families. Capitalism now is making society desperately unhappy- how can this change?
Cutting foreign aid would save domestic lives | Dan Mikhaylov
The UK should divest our foreign budget to tackle issues that already exist or will soon arise in communities across the country. Supplying aid as carelessly and munificently as we do is bound to see us get hoist by our own petard, and pursuing a more internationalist foreign policy could very well end up improvident and regrettable. In advocating this, we neither spurn the idea of foreign aid per se, nor reject the Biblical principle of loving our neighbour. Yet, it seems impractical to pay more heed to the human needs thousands of miles away from the UK than to those expressed by the British public.