‘In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered.’ —Russell Kirk

Labour: • Scrapping jury trials • Cancelling local elections • Cancelling mayoral elections • A budget popularly perceived as unfair and unaffordable • Ignoring public opinion on immigration What exactly is the second part of “social democracy” supposed to mean?

Awful for anyone to lose a job. But universities have to be honest: they have made themselves reliant on overseas students. It is a bubble.

Looks like a fascinating & worthwhile read.

My article on Enoch Powell's reading of Nietzsche has just been published. @CenConHull @PoliticsatHull Link: https://t.co/Xhe6iq7Vb3

interesting reading list. would be a good course.

Some “alternative facts” here from Harriet Harperson.

We've just published a new report defending the right to trial by jury. We analysed Ministry of Justice data from 2017-25, comparing the acquittal rate for those charged with speech crimes in jury trials compared to non-jury trials. The results are quite startling. For all

This thought crime culture among the police has to stop.

Juries have been the last line of defence against the authoritarian cancel mob. When our members have found themselves charged with criminal offences for speaking out, juries have reliably said no dice to overzealous prosecutors. This has infuriated the CPS and the activists

If you are in any doubt that the academics of tomorrow are being coerced to pursue politicised topics to stand a chance of thriving in academia, take a look at this. https://t.co/Z5wmQMb2tP

My chum @CRJFear has an excellent article in this issues of the Salisbury Review, which is on the two faces of conservatism.

🚨 BREAKING: CAF’s latest investigation has revealed that Britain’s flagship research agency, which manages around £10bn of public money every year, is imposing equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) conditions on its grants—and in the process risks undermining the government’s

“All plans of government, which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind, are plainly imaginary.” David Hume, “Of the Original Contract” (1748).

"The more absurd [progressivism] is, the more it will become an enduring and possibly expanding part of our political landscape, because cognitively disoriented people make sense of an unintelligible world by immersing themselves in nonsense." https://t.co/pPjEWItVKE

@DrDominicGreen This is true on both sides of the Atlantic, sadly. Here is Labour MP Peter Shore, speaking in the very same year, at the Oxford Union (on the imminent referendum on the Common Market).

2/ On UKRI's web pages, mentions of 'equality' trump 'excellence', and the balance has been growing ever more skewed

🚨Prof @epkaufm’s latest report for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science offers a clear warning about how public research funding, designed to advance knowledge and reward excellence, is being reshaped by ideology. Among other examples, the report highlights the Economic and

“Unless a state maintains a fair balance of rights, duties, and functions—the magistrates having adequate power, the aristocratic council adequate influence, and the people adequate freedom—its constitutional organization cannot be preserved from change.” Cicero, Republic II,57

"A university is not a machine for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a manner of human activity... we may call it 'the pursuit of learning'."

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” Marcus Tullius Cicero