‘A National Union of Apprentices’ is the answer to educational funneling | Alex Brown
So let us offer every young person a meaningful job, a wealth of knowledge and experience. But most importantly, take the emphasis away from university and move the status quo towards a ‘National Union of Apprentices’ so that we are creating generation after generation of hard skills instead of streamlining people into university when they don’t thrive there. If you're going to any join a union, join the NUA.
Time for Britain to double down on law enforcement | Dan Mikhaylov
The previous weeks’ newsworthy events signalled pessimism. The heinous antisocial behaviour, vandalism and destruction under the name of Black Lives Matter provides yet another example of how an opulent, orderly society easily descends into endogenous chaos. However, recently we might have just hit a new low… Our solutions to such problems cannot merely be of harsher sentences, but must address sicknesses at the centre of our society.
The “no-fault” divorce legislation is contrary to the nature of marriage | Sam George
Yet, one should ask: Why does this theological perspective have any consequence to the non-Christian conservative? Quite simply because it sets the precedent of a higher standard which produces not only the smallest contingent of a healthy, functioning and self-sustaining society, but also typically provides the best surety against individual shortcomings as well as ensuring successful inheritance.
New abortion legislation spells dark days for the UK | Jason Plessas
There is a lot to be said for being ‘an arrow’ - that is, choosing one issue to concentrate on and gathering support around it. In the case of England & Wales, non-fatal disability would seem a logical focal point. The concerns have genuine appeal that can cross ideological divides: while we conservatives should maintain our healthy scepticism of the far-left sect that have infiltrated the Black Live Matters movement, we must remember that many of those repeating its slogan do so earnestly and without extremist agenda, and thus for whom the phrase “Disabled Lives Matter” would be uttered in the same breath.
British history is world history - how do we teach it to empower all communities while respecting their sufferings? | Sam Hall
Let us celebrate the Churchills, the Kents and the Gurungs of this world. But to do so we must desegregate history… British History is not the exclusive preserve of white people any more than our island home is. These rolling hills, these pastures green, these lakes and derelict mills stand on a tapestry that all can enjoy and call their home. Neither Black Lives Matter nor All Lives Matter, but All British History Matters.
Beautiful architecture and crime-free streets go hand-in-hand | Charlie Pearson
The all but forgotten concept within psychology, traditionally known as ‘The Law of Broken Windows’, can be first attributed to the prominent psychologist Philip Zimbardo, whose experiment uncovered the theory in 1969. Albeit, this theory was made considerably more infamous by the former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, who made a very public connection between crime, architecture and environment.
An updated Britishness must retain the past | Dan Mikhaylov
Respectful of their nation’s substantial cultural legacy, Britons are among those who give plentiful store by tradition. Many are enamoured with their forebears' idiosyncratic sport – cricket – and the dynamic pub culture continues to characterise the local experience, even though 13,000 pubs have vanished from the face of the United Kingdom since 2000.
Environmentalists are conservative by nature | Christopher Barnard
Ultimately, it seems rather bizarre that the left has managed to monopolise the environment- at least from a philosophical perspective. Again, that is partly due to the fact that conservatives have tended to avoid this issue like the plague, uncomfortable with the orthodoxy that large state solutions reign supreme on these matters. Yet, from the defence of existing beauty and value to the avoidance of disorder and chaos, conservatism innately promotes the conservation of our planet for the benefit of generations to come.
A conservative approach to state intervention in the world of COVID-19 | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
The actions undertaken by many countries have given more fuel to the great debate present in our politics; to what extent state intervention is morally permissible... On one side, you have the supporters of the minimalist state, which have reacted with horror to these actions. Followers of the modern philosophy of liberalism are being torn by its commitment to liberal freedom and their egalitarian concerns. Naturally, the question that also arises is how conservatism determines what is morally permissible, through the use of normative standards.