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@nocontextfm1
A manager asserts his authority not by belittling his team members but by affording each of them their due respect. If JT’s account of events is true, AVB is unfit to run a bath never mind a club.
Roger Scruton on government:
“Government is a search for order, and for power only in so far as power is required by order. It is present in the family, in the free associations of neighbours, and in the ‘little platoons’ extolled by Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the…
@Miss_Snuffy
Michaela is an outstanding school because of its extraordinary leadership, I’ve seen it firsthand.
Katharine & her team should be credited, not besmirched for their tireless contribution to excellent education for young people.
I wish MCS all the best with its case.
@ToryVote_
Your arrogance knows no boundaries. You do not have a monopoly on conservative voters. To earn their trust, you should stick with what was agreed in the 2019 manifesto.
@kunley_drukpa
Poor kids suffering from identity crisis.
Parents who immigrated to Europe/America give birth to western born children but impose the doctrines/values they inherited in the country they emigrated from.
How can these kids have any loyalty to the country of their birth?
THE SAD
@AndreasKoureas_
“they probably contribute more to the UK treasury than you do anyway”
This is an utterly irrelevant point.
It is wrong to judge the worth of a citizen by their financial contribution to the tax man. Neither is a foreigner’s contribution to the tax man a valid argument for more…
@PolitlcsUK
@theipaper
There’s an eerie feeling of MacBeth about the Sunak’s.
Do us all a favour: call a GE, call the removals company, and drift into irrelevance.
@MrHarryCole
@TheSun
Disingenuous.
To leave the ECHR means revising the Human Rights Act 1998, Good Friday Agreement, and a few others laws like the Equality Act 2010.
None of this is achievable with the current Cabinet or the Parliamentary representation of the Conservative Party.
@KonstantinKisin
NATO is an alliance not a protectorate. Member states who do not contribute their agreed share to an alliance they voluntarily signed up to, should not be surprised if the largest contributor refuses to come to their aid if a conflict arises.
@EssexPR
Peter Hitchens is right, it's best for Brits especially with young children to emigrate. Next year, you're going to start seeing a lot of Brits leaving for Central & Eastern Europe, some even as far as the Arab Gulf states.
Roger Scruton on Architecture:
“Oscar Wilde remarked that only a very shallow person does not judge by appearances. It is also only a shallow person who looks for ‘simplicity’ in architecture, as though it were the criterion of truth.”
📕 The Classic Vernacular
@StephenPiment
I’d argue that Salisbury upheld the Empire more than Churchill. Salisbury through his deft diplomacy guarded Britain’s interest in Africa against the ever cantankerous French, as well as in India where certain a viceroy was threatening to undo years of prosperity.
Pornography, like slavery, is a denial of the human subject, a way of negating the moral demand that free beings must treat each other as ends in themselves”
- Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction.
@RafHM
One might be inclined to think that once Labour swoop in with a 100+ majority, the Muslim group would form an electoral alliance with Starmer, in a similar way to the Co-operative party - the 4th largest party in Parliament with 27 MPs.
The result of such an alliance would be
@dieworkwear
HIGH ARMHOLE
As a designer of men’s undershirts, the armhole/armscye is v important. For me, it has to be high to allow the unrestricted flow of arm to body movement.
I recently wrote an article about it, here is a screenshot.
@EdwardPentin
@CburyCathedral
A consecrated place for solace, reflection and worship, converted into a den of hedonism, debauchery and lust.
Who will rid this of this troublesome Archbishop?
@GoodwinMJ
1/ Bad (if uncontrolled)
2/ National
3/ Effective state, spend where required
4/ National
5/ Reform the bad ones e.g., SC, Met, NHS
6/ Absolutely prioritise
7/ Absolutely strengthen
8/ Definitely civilisation issue
9/ Has to be substantive
10/ Action
@GBNAmerica
@StevenEdginton
She says she’s a social conservative, her voting record on social issues says otherwise.
She doesn’t know the difference between Gladstone and Disraeli’s foreign policy.
She can’t name another successful Tory leader other than Thatcher and Churchill.
Utterly unserious…
@y_alibhai
No you don’t.
You pay your weight in taxes housing illegals and hiring diversity managers for the NHS, but let’s ignore that and focus on the RF.
“A nation is defined not by institutions or borders but by language, religion and high culture; in times of turmoil and conquest it is those spiritual things that must be protected and reaffirmed.”
📕 Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets
I had the privilege of visiting Michaela Community School earlier this week. The work Katharine
@Miss_Snuffy
and her team are putting in for their students is incredible.
Traditional teaching DOES work.
In Michaela, attentive listening is the foundation on which the students
@FUDdaily
As Scruton once said “all attempts to conserve things come too late.”
Wilders wants his party to govern over a country that is no longer a country but a mere ‘member state’. Its monetary & fiscal policy are not decided by the Dutch, its borders are not in their control, its laws
“To reduce marriage to a contract is to demote marriage to a tie of self-interest, to trivialize the erotic bond, and to jeopardize the emotions on which your children depend for their security.”
Roger Scruton on marriage.
📕 Gentle Regrets
@philippilk
@jtworr
@LeoVaradkar
Thanks for the background.
There are similarities with the Conservative Party. They also took their mask off with the election of Cameron as its leader in 2005, and the subsequent social liberal policies that have been rolled out since 2010.
@KemiBadenoch
What is the obsession with a Japanese company operating here in the UK? They’re here because it’s in their interest.
What you should be obsessed about is incentivising British businesses in the automotive sector - Suppliers, NACs and established OEMs- to set up shop here .
@YorubaNationCH
Some people don’t realise that Yoruba is older than English, by at least a 1,000 years.
Heritage is important, and the only way to keep a language alive is if enough speak it, and built on it as time passes.
@AEHALL1983
How do you explain the 69k for votes that went to Yakoob?
A less partisan opinion might argue that if Yakoob hadn’t stood, the Labour victory would’ve been larger.
@MrRobertBob1
Magna Carta 1215
Petition of Right 1628
Habeas Corpus 1679
Claim of Right 1689
Bill of Rights 1689
Acts of Parliament 1911 & 1949
You're fully protected from a government that is part of the legislative arm, and which its Prime Minister cannot/does not rule by decree.
“Here was a piece of England which was not yet alien to itself, a community which had yet to be ground into atoms and scattered as dust”
- Roger Scruton, On Hunting.
I started reading this book a few days ago and its deep insight into Roger Scruton’s journey as a writer, thinker and philosopher is invaluable.
It seems to me, every book I’ve read by Scruton, is an education on the great man.
If Mastermind ever returned, and by chance I was
@DCBMEP
The party is in a catch-22. Saving it from electoral defeat means MPs like Noakes, Kearns, Mordaunt, Buckland and Ellwood could return to Parliament, and Sunak in Downing St.
I don’t think any mature person wants that.
You cannot expect people to vote conservative when all
@BarristersHorse
Saladin and every Ottoman Sultan could only dream of an image like this.
Humza the Brief achieved this without a single battle.
Give the man his due.
@jamespriceglos
The likes of Johnny Mercer
@JohnnyMercerUK
and Tony Tugenhadt
@TomTugendhat
gave Eaton’s misleading claims oxygen.
Scruton was let down by a Conservative govt that employed him, Conservative MPs and conservatives from all walks of life.
We will pay for this.
@PaulEmbery
@anne_limartin
I think Paul and Peter Hitchens
@ClarkeMicah
are quite similar only that Paul is less elegiac 😊.
On the social issues, both believe in the family, gender roles, and homogenous communities.
On the economic issues, they both agree that trade unions are good for the economy and…
Today marks four years since the passing of Sir Roger Scruton. Throughout most of his adult life, Sir Roger dedicated his life to defending conservatism.
With Sir Roger, the meaning of conservatism was articulated in a way most of his counterparts and predecessors could not.…
If Britain really believed in itself and its values, upon hearing that Jewish schools were staying closed today for fear of Jewish children’s safety, our prime minister would have deployed a show of force on the streets of London the likes of which we had never seen, to remind
God, Darwin, and people.
“God moves in a mysterious way. When you look people as objects, then you see that Darwin was right. When you look on them as subjects, you see that the most important thing about them has no place in Darwin’s theory.”
- Roger Scruton, On Hunting
@justchrisdavies
You’re not alone Chris. The King unfortunately is more Edward II than Henry VII.
It’s a good thing that those in support of constitutional monarchy recognise the distinction between monarchism and royalism.
@ClarkeMicah
One can only assume that Lord Cameron has factored in the risk of Russian missiles hitting London in retaliation.
Not that the Russians would ever hit London since they own a large chunk of it.
Impact on my thinking. In no particular order:
1. Roger Scruton
2. Thomas Sowell
3. Edmund Burke
4. Ralph Vaughan Williams
5. Alexis de Tocqueville
6. Marcus Aurelius
7. Léon Krier
8. Peter Hitchens
9. Lord Salisbury
10. Theodore Dalrymple
@FUDdaily
The problem with UKIP is that its voter base have gone off in different directions - Reform UK, Heritage Party, English Dems, and others. Even though it’s ideas are coherent, no one is listening, it’s talking to no one.
@createstreets
This type of quick fix is common in third world countries and in remote areas of Eastern European countries.
Britain’s attitude to maintenance is somewhere in between.
An in-depth chronology of grammar schools in the UK from 1828 to 2021.
48 pages of nothing but facts and hard truths.
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens.
@christiancalgie
Sir John is right. Conservatism promotes freedom and liberty but they come with obligation and restraint. The test on obligation -unto ourselves and others - has been met. Smoking is banned in most public budlings and there are shelters and designated places for smokers, so these
@BestForBritain
@montie
For someone who’s “studied politics for a very long time” Tim is quite slow to catch on. The average Joe knows Sunak isn’t up to the job and hasn’t got a single conservative thought in his head.
Asked who the next leader should be, Tim who positions himself as voice of
@JamesWoodfield
The House of Lords has never been democratic in the true sense of the word but it was once a respected body. Alas, it is now a bloated chumocracy filled to its rafters with dilettantes and sycophants.
Repeal the House of Lords Act 1999, and return to it the Law Lords.