COVID-19: the need for community and breaking free from the buffered self | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
The UK government’s refusal to timely adopt more stricter measures to combat the virus also makes it incumbent on all of us and our communities to protect ourselves. Taking the time to talk to an older person, helping a stranger, volunteering in the Church or an organization could look trivial to the action needed to deal with the crisis- but a thousand acts of random kindness… can be of enormous benefit to the whole of society.
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.