Letter From London
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'Why do so many of us walk around with a palpable sense that something has gone fundamentally wrong,' wondered a speaker at the recent National Conservatism conference in the UK. Just how wrong and how disenchanted will become clear on July 4, when Britons go to the polls in Rishi Sunak's surprise electionMay 24, 2024
13 mins
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King Charles' coronation, which went off with none of the feared hitches, protests or other unpleasantness, is the textbook example of an ancient monarchy surviving as a living, breathing being, not some dead and purely ceremonial thing rolled out for the odd occasion. Power from below, authority from above -- amid all the pomp and pageantry, that was both the message and the lessonJune 15, 2023
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Margaret Thatcher’s empowering era of distributing ownership of property through her Right to Buy scheme is now being reversef, with the barriers to stepping onto the housing ladder become ever higher. Property ownership is becoming the preserve either of the financial and legal sectors or of those who’ve inherited, a trend that explains why so much needed housing stock purchased as investments now sits emptyMarch 31, 2023
12 mins
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King Charles no doubt hopes his investiture proceeds more smoothly that of Victoria, who we can assume was not amused when the elderly and appropriately named Lord Rolle lost his footing and rolled down stairs before her. Meanwhile, thirsty royals were slipping into the Chapel of St Edward, where the altar hosted a lavish spread of sandwiches and wine
February 19, 2023
12 mins
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As in the US, liberal virtue-signalling is not a vote winner in the UK, least of all amongst the working-class. It’s not that the trend is to social conservativism -- though on some specific issues this is happening -- but that the leftist social agenda is caught in such a vortex of increasing radicalisation that ordinary people reject it as bordering on the insaneJune 14, 2022
12 mins
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As significant as who is in AUKUS is who isn’t. In contrast to the Five Eyes intelligence co-operation agreement, AUKUS doesn’t include New Zealand or Canada, two traditional allies of long standing. Could this be an acknowledgment that under their current political leadership each is increasingly unreliable?March 8, 2022
12 mins
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British people woke on the morning of September 17, 2021, […]February 25, 2022
12 mins
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November did not get off to a good start. There […]
December 1, 2018
8 mins
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Even if you ignore the rancorous Brexit debate and Remainers' predictions that put the seven plagues of Egypt to shame, there have been plenty of entirely unrelated developments to make a Briton think seriously of buying a one-way ticket to the Antipodes or Americas
October 27, 2018
10 mins
