COVID-19 and the abrogation of personal responsibility | Orthodox Conservatives
An article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) calls attention to the factors neglected by policymakers. To summarise, the economic consequences of lockdowns are projected to worsen inequality and disproportionately target lower socioeconomic brackets, while the repurposing of the medical system to counter COVID will leave patients with other pathologies at much greater risk.
The British countryside: our green and pleasant land | Adam James Pollock
When it comes to the countryside, people are growing weary of presenters such as Chris Packham presenting his own views as if they were mainstream in rural areas, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. In a fantastic recent article by the newly elevated Lord Ian Botham, Packham is derided as being utterly imprudent regarding all true rural issues… He could hardly represent rural communities less if he had spent his entire life in a Hackney estate.
Conservatives must build an alternative to capitalism | David Sergeant
Global corporations, many of whom now rival the power of small states, use their wealth and influence to manipulate cultural direction. It is really surprising to see ‘woke’ companies push radical individualism? The more families they split into atomised consumers, the more their profits bulge. Likewise, corporate support for identity politics – designed to divide ordinary people into a multitude of exclusionary social tribes – is the perfect distraction from unjustifiable and unpopular wealth differentials.
Reimagining cooperatives for post-pandemic inclusive growth | Dan Mikhaylov
Mindful of the common good, conservatives must recognise the need for inclusive post-pandemic growth. Since unemployment is as much an economic phenomenon that undermines economic growth and local development as a social malaise, capable of fuelling extremism and other malevolent behaviours stemming from disaffection with the public, ensuring that Britain’s poorer counties are not left behind by the government’s blueprint for financial rejuvenation must be a priority. Since the conservative ideology cherishes social cohesion and national unity, exacerbating the existing socioeconomic divisions in the UK is not only pernicious for the country’s territorial integrity, but also in contravention of the tenets, to which we expect the Tory government to subscribe.
Can atheist metaphysics justify a secular society? | Oliver Victorio
Another self-refuting implication of atheism is materialism. The crux of the problem with materialism is that it implies determinism, and determinism is self-refuting. A view is self-refuting when it is included in its field of reference and fails to satisfy its own criteria of acceptability. For instance, the statement “there are no truths” must include itself as not being true, and hence is self-refuting and necessarily false. In the case of materialism, it operates on the presumption that everything is derived from matter, which behaves deterministically.
The failure of boys in education | Alex Brown
For all the hysteria about the dominance of a group that evidence suggests is actually suffering and falling behind, in 2016, women outnumbered men in 112 out of 180 degree subjects; with the biggest deficits being in the social sciences such as teaching. Indeed, government data shows around three quarters of schoolteachers in Britain are women. As Zimbardo has stated, women do not value male attributes and traits. We must be mindful of the unnaturally occurring echo chambers that may be being therefore created.
Abortion - an inconsistency about innate human worth | Alexander Ruggles
So any acceptance of the aforementioned scientific fact that life begins at conception and the recognition of the moral truth of human life having innate worth underlines that abortion both violates and is inconsistent with an individual’s inherent right to life. Their dependency, rather than being a reason to infringe on their basic human right to life, should instead be seen to create a moral responsibility for other individuals to safeguard, protect, and uphold that individual's absolute right to life from its very conception.
Metaphysics in politics - the problem of the one and the many | Orthodox Conservatives
Conservative political philosophy finds its roots in the notion of Christian hierarchy, as the paternalistic state—the central motif of the ‘one nation’ conservatism echoed by modern thinkers such as Michael Oakeshott—is analogous to the Father’s hierarchical relationship with man, Who guides and corrects him when he is led astray.
Book poverty is a deficiency of the working class - but we can change it | Alisha Rose
Class-ingrained cultural habits like this are not something that can be changed overnight, but gradually over time, encouraging children we know to read will change their lives. It’s the best gift you could ever give, to a child or adult… So for the potential of our regions and for our children, let’s get everyone reading.