November 26, 2022
In ancient Greece, a small number of people would meet a very unpleasant end. Once a year, a selection of slaves, foreigners, criminals, and those deemed […]
November 21, 2022
Disability (In)justice We live in a society that offers little justice to disabled people. As we write in At the Gates: Disability, Justice and […]
November 15, 2022
In her recent Modern Church blog, Elaine Graham asked for suggested areas of public policy that might be candidates for a Royal Commission. I would plump […]
November 13, 2022
This post is a plug for the talk by Iain McGilchrist which went live on Friday. Entitled ‘The Brain and a Sense of the Sacred’, it’s […]
November 11, 2022
Our sincere thanks to Dr Iain McGilchrist for a fascinating lecture. You can watch back below. This lecture is provided on a pay what you decide […]
November 3, 2022
In this blog, Elaine Graham calls for the revival of Royal Commissions as a means of addressing some of the most deep-seated political challenges of our […]
October 25, 2022
It isn’t clear what Conservatives think conservatism is any longer: what aspect of actually existing British society (rather than ersatz Victorian fantasy) they seek to conserve, […]
October 15, 2022
This post is a continuation of my last one in which I argued that the economic policy of the British Government is a replica of ancient […]
September 26, 2022
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Financial Statement of 23 September has gone down badly with the financial markets, economics thinktanks and even a good few Conservative […]