Nick Timothy, citing the left-wing failure to address the decades-long scandal of Asian grooming gangs, their attempts to silence free speech on university campuses and also the attacks upon Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey for her moral rejection of abortion up to birth for the disabled – even though her views have not affected her […]
Several stories in recent weeks have brought a new focus on what equality activists call ‘covert racism’. The opposite of overt racism. Meghan Markle was certainly subjected to overt, racial slurs on social media but according to some of her defenders it was the covert racism from mainline media and broadcasting that made life impossible […]
In his 1845 book The Condition of the Working Class in England, Friedrich Engels excoriated those wealthy philanthropists who placed themselves “before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when they give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them.” Back then charity was the preserve of austere Victorians and […]
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR In recent years, politics and society have rapidly, and dramatically, changed. Views that were mainstream a decade ago on subjects like marriage, trade, abortion, religion, and criminal justice now find themselves increasingly held by only a minority in society. In the UK, Arthur Scargill, the scourge of Margaret Thatcher, is […]
The left’s embrace of climate change as a central part of its platform is in some ways a curious marriage. There has always been a pastoral rural element on the left which was suspicious of growth, but that tended to be either anarchist or agrarian populist in nature. The Marxist oriented or originated left has […]