The extent to which the government can effectively tackle complex societal problems is an issue that is hotly contested. While some writers, more often those on the Right, are inherently sceptical of the state’s “problem solving” ability, others, more often those on the Left, argue that the difficult issues that bedevil our society can be […]

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With the only commentary about the European Union in recent years seemingly related to the “intellectual black hole” that is Brexit, a very important milestone in the history of the Union has gone by largely, and shamefully, unnoticed. Indeed, the continuing European debt crisis, or “Eurocrisis”, became a decade old at the end of last […]

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It is said that at a meeting of party officials in the 1970s, soon-to-be British prime minister Margaret Thatcher cut short a colleague’s presentation by slamming a copy of Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty down on a table and declaring, “This is what we believe.” What some find ironic about this event is that […]

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If not for one man, Sir Edward Coke, law in the Anglosphere could have veered into the top-down, regulation-strewn path of continental Europe. This astonishing legal mind really ought to be better known and respected among conservatives

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The great conservative thinker Roger Scruton is better known for philosophical works than his occasional forays into fiction, of which his collection of short stories, Souls in the Twilight, is the latest offering. A stellar assembly of often perturbing tales, it shames the censorious and PC-endorsed current literary climate

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Silicon Valley's tech entrepreneurs are inclined to fanciful schemes and perspectives that have little grounding in reality. It is truly frightening that their immense power gives these arrogant utopians the ability to take the world in directions that most people would simply reject outright

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The political authority of the unelected Supreme Leader and his personally selected Guardian Council to veto  bills and choose presidential candidates makes a mockery of Iran’s supposed 'democracy'. For those who might criticise such a system, a mandatory seventy-four lashes await

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