The state of British education: requiring old solutions and missing morality | Alex Brown
All successive governments have done is throw money at the problem. The one time some real change was in sight, it was with David Cameron’s academy system, and even he managed to poorly execute it in pursuit of marketisation. It may come as no surprise that I intend to discuss the problems facing the British education system today then; from bottom to top, for all ages, as well as outline how the solutions of educational diversity and reintroduction of morality offer a new opportunity to restructure the system in favour of tried and tested methods because fundamentally there is no need to ‘reinvent the wheel’ when it comes to education, only modify it.
Christian virtue in Britain: how does this inform our culture and attitudes? | Sam George
What I am alluding to is the fact that those countries with shared religious or cultural core values (and in some instances, both, but this needn’t be the case always) tend to exhibit the best responses to acclimatisation. At the same time, there are some extenuating outliers; for instance, Sikhs are a minority religion which have been extended legal privileges, but have had such on the understanding that they have demonstrated an exemplary attitude to the core values of Britain and her way of life.
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.
The paterfamilias: male responsibility, traditional family, and wider society | Sam G. Hall
Tradition has withered, not rotted. Its very nature is perennial and therefore liable to re-emergence in the right conditions. Years worth of damage will take a corresponding number of years to heal, but within that framework, restoring the paterfamilias would undoubtedly create a societal ripple. If we wish to see broader changes, it is best to begin with the smallest compositional unit of society, i.e., the family itself.
Catholic Social Teaching, waning Anglicanism, and the antidote to purposeless secular education | Tom Colsy
Recently, standardisation has been the order of the day in the education sector; variety has been the enemy. With an ever more religiously diverse population, the tradition of passing down Christian values, at least in the overt sense, is one that has gradually withered in our institutions and schools. And this means we have also lost the wisdom that comes with it.
No, Eugenicism against Down’s Syndrome babies is not acceptable | Jason Plessas
Under the 1967 Abortion Act, unborn babies with Down syndrome can be aborted right up until the end of a pregnancy, along with those with other non-fatal disabilities including cleft-lip palate and clubfoot. Heidi is the public face of Don’t Screen Us Out, who are mounting a legal challenge to end that discrepancy. “Five minutes before the baby comes down the birth canal, if the child is suspected to have Down’s, the baby could be aborted,” says her mother, Liz, despite people with Down’s being more than capable of living life “to the full”.
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.
The case for a Post-Liberal Brexit Britain | Dr Rakib Ehsan
The Conservative Party, one of the most successful parties in Western democratic history, has a golden opportunity to establish a patriotic, communitarian agenda – one which promotes local economic enterprise and appreciates a social desire for rootedness.