[...] The British people have good reason to thank the British aristocracy for their shrewdness in the marriage market. Had Randolph Churchill not recovered his family’s fortunes by marrying the American heiress, Jennie Jerome, there would have been no Winston Churchill to give the British Empire its “finest hour”.

[...]“Underfunded!” is the single most overused criticism by patients, excuse by the DHBs or attack by politicians. Whoever utters it, for whatever reason, is wrong because nobody can objectively measure or define what ‘under-funded’ means. In order to do that, they must present what fully funded is and nobody ever has.

[...] Camus, who is decidedly against all forms of violence, has been punished for criticising immigration. There is no longer any commitment to freedom of speech in France. The nation is subject to such intrusive hate speech laws that to speak one’s mind about anything pertaining to humans is dangerous [...]

[...] More than just a conservative intellectual, Sir Roger Scruton was a constant champion of Western civilisation, and of the value of beauty and aesthetics in an increasingly philistine age. In the years to come, we are going to need his like more than ever

CONSERVATISM’S GREATEST ENEMY isn’t socialism – it’s radicalism. The impulse to uproot, upend, and overthrow all that is old, settled and esteemed is the essence of radicalism. Though most conservatives would be taken aback by the suggestion, a powerful case can be made that for the past 40 years the most dangerous radicals have not been the partisans of socialism, but the promoters of unfettered capitalism.