To remain authentically conservative, we must speak out against the systematic redistribution of wealth upward | Sam George
What has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen ex ante, is that the lockdowns have affected a monumental redistribution of wealth upward to almost Biblical proportions. The pockets of multinational businesses already predisposed to economic advantage… have been lined inversely proportional to the wealth lost by small, semi-competitive, local businesses.
An 18th century idea to put fear and deterrance back into prisons? | Alex Brown
In an age where each prisoner costs £26,000 annually to look after, and where they can receive visitors at all times, their lives are made comfortable regardless of their crime. We need an alternative that will put fear back at the heart of our prisons yet cut costs. A modern, digital Panopticon will ensure psychological rehabilitation of prisoners through genuine fear of reincarceration as well as provide the digital surveillance that can prevent violence and control prisoners more effectively.
A battle for the political soul: populism and Christian identity | Joseph Robertson
In the past, identity could be broken down to the level of the individual, the family, the community and the nation, in definable ‘building blocks’. Increasingly identity is stretched to mean the individual as part of a larger supralocal commune, harping back to Irving Janis’s 1972 study, ‘Victims of Groupthink’, where he expounded the theory of individuals foregoing their own beliefs to conform to a consensus.
Imperiled UK prisons require conservative reform | Dan Mikhaylov
For us, prison reform does not constitute a mere economic necessity, motivated by the need to end the squandering of the taxpayers’ money on programmes that neither contribute to the delinquents’ rehabilitation, nor ensure our own security upon their release. Conversely, we advocate for it from the perspective of the common weal: it presupposes a system that simultaneously uproots those who endanger order and tranquillity, and improves and educates wrongdoers. Our system must be undergirded by the Christian principle of forgiveness.
Revisiting fusionism - revolutionary capitalism and conservative economics
Human relationships are now commodified, and those which cannot be, are simply cast aside as hurdles to economic growth. Houellebecq’s inherent pessimism may be singular, but his analysis of society will be shared by many who perceive in the ongoing dismantlement of social constructs a threat to the family’s “sentimental veil” and a step forward to its reduction “to a mere money relation”, as Marx had prophesised.
Life or obscurity - the European choice | OC Comment
As the French sociologist Auguste Comte proclaimed: “Demography is Destiny”. And if we are to look at Europe through a demographic lens, its destiny is grim indeed. With fertility rates plummeting due to the spread of abortion, with the nuclear famirely ripped apart by the forces of postmodern activism, with the vilification of traditional gender roles by third-wave feminism, Europe stands on the brink of demographic extinction.
A triumph for ideologues | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
The rhetoric of the Biden campaign, its supporters, and Democratic candidates alike was predicated upon the word; change. But as ideologues, this change involves a radically transformative approach to what they perceive to be oppression, supposedly inherent, in the American system. The policy prescriptions for America of the current Democratic Party are all based in a dangerous rationalism and falsity that governments in DC or state capitals unilaterally know what is best for society, the family, and the individual.
British security in a heating world | Dominic Lawson
The global economic system relies upon an edifice of interconnected networks which are extremely fragile in the face of exogenous shocks, or ‘black swans.’ Any successful British security policy needs to take account of, and fully recognise, how dependent we have become on the various nodes within this greater system along with the dangers this represents. Serious, potentially severe challenges lay ahead for states in the coming decades and Britain’s shall be no exception.
Conservative compromises, compromised conservatives | OC Comment
We have seen that so-called “Conservative” parties have done a poor job indeed of actually conserving anything. It has got to the point where thinking of a single political issue, especially in the social arena, where the Conservative platform nowadays isn’t a carbon-copy of the progressive platform 20 years ago is rather difficult. If an accurate campaign slogan were necessary, I’d say “Progressive, but Late” is a much more apt description for any mainstream conservative party in the West.