Opposing vaccination of children (an article from the SDP)
"For the state to ask a 12 year old to deliberate – without parental consent – on a matter as important as personal vaccination is totally unacceptable,” says William Clouston, Leader of the SDP.
Whose Britishness?
On education, drugs, immigration, environmental alarmism, transgender issues, foreign aid, personal rights, privacy, free speech and – most of all – British culture, the Conservative Party has been firmly unconservative.
Your Life in 10 - Toby Young (s01 e09)
In this episode, Toby Young joins S.D. Wickett in discussion.
For want of a bonnet cable, the West was lost
If you can strangle the supply of key components, you can suffocate a country in manifold ways. No bonnet cables? No cars. No medicines? No healthcare. No semiconductors? No nothin'.
On conservatism and the Conservatives
The Conservative Party cannot take its correct role as custodian when it prefers to be auctioneer, flogging the nation’s assets to the highest bidder and encouraging hyenas to pick at the unsold lots.
Professor Susan Michie and her politics
It seems odd to publicly praise their “system” in a conversation about the pandemic, and then later act affronted when an interviewer questions the overlap between your political judgement and scientific advice.
Line up for the “Based Draft”
As Mancur Olson discovered, the organised minority is always more effective than the unorganised majority, frequently managing to dominate (or rule) societies.
Our Current Predicament #62: Eric Siva-Jothy
The latest episode of the Our Current Predicament podcast is out now.