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.
Abortion in the UK: scientific and moral incrimination | Nelly Huszcza
It can be quite disturbing to think that in an enlightened, rational country like the UK, with a society that holds tolerance and compassion as the highest forms of virtue, over 200 000 fragile lives were still killed just in 2018 by abortion. Worse, when the heart of the Hippocratic oath insists on the doctors’ duty to save lives, it seems very ironic that abortions today are branded as healthcare, and are almost entirely funded by our National Health Service.
Modi operandi | Dan Mikhaylov
Clusters of people spasmodically wave saffron flags under the blistering heat, anxiously anticipating the moment. The man they so fervently seek on stage to inspire them is but a politician, however, his appearance always signals a special occasion. To pundits, Narendra Modi is a brand, with music, merchandise, and even a biopic dedicated to his imposing persona.
Why we must stand up to the CCP and WHO | Laura Hall
We in the West proclaim ourselves to be animal lovers; we simply must fight back against this blatant bid to let China avoid the blame. We must hold them accountable, we must demand change. Brushing the origin of COVID-19 under the rug will not only allow it to happen again in another 20 years’ time, it will allow millions of animals to be left in these horrific conditions.
Pornography is a public health crisis | Jack Hadfield
We have to address the widespread sexualisation of society that pushes young women and girls towards those who want to exploit them for quick cash. A society that celebrates “sex-workers” and praises sleeping around is not going to be one that sees pornography for what it is. We cannot ignore the cultural roots behind the problem, but they are far harder to fix. Only by returning to a society that values far more than simple hedonistic pleasures will we ever be truly able to end the pornography epidemic once and for all.
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.
St. Augustine’s journey to Easter | Chad C. Pecknold
Augustine tells us that he found something in this retreat. He writes that he made a sacrifice of tears in the “inner chamber” of his heart—and that upon this inner altar, he found “joy in my heart.” The reality of Easter was dawning. As for many Catholics right now, the Eucharist wasn’t yet accessible to him, yet he nevertheless says that he tasted upon this inner altar of the heart “a different wheat and wine and oil”.
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.
China: time to start asking questions - religious persecution | Nathaniel Hayward
Despite this obvious slide into autocratic despotism and the evidence of simultaneous widespread repression within mainland China, the vast majority of the Western media and especially the Western political establishment appears to turn a blind eye. Indeed, many western journalists seem content to take Chinese narratives at face-value. And in the USA they spend a disproportionate amount of time attacking Donald Trump as the dictator he isn’t, rather than attacking Xi Jinping as the dictator he so very obviously is.