Harry and Meghan are about to do it. His older brother did it a few years ago. Some of his cousins have done it. His father has even done it twice. Indeed it would be considered quite odd if Prince Harry and Meghan Markle weren’t going to get married. Royal weddings are a bit of a tradition. Marriage is what they do. But is that all there is … [Read more...]
The Legacy of Karl Marx
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Parts of the liberal establishment are falling over themselves with excitement, marking the occasion with a wave of books, articles and events. My favourite gem is Radio 4’s scheduled drama based on Marx’s Das Kapital. Squashing Marx’s economic ponderousness into a sixty-minute play seems so … [Read more...]
Declining Birth Rates
What’s to be done about the West’s plummeting birth rate? It is now largely common knowledge – and not before time – that birth rates in Western and other developed nations are well below the rate of replacement, leading to ageing and declining populations, and storing up serious social and economic problems for the future. Source: … [Read more...]
Men Want to Earn a Living
Men want to earn a living – women want to marry them and look after the kids ‘We need attitudes to change over paternity leave’ apparently, if you take orders from Lorraine Candy at the Sunday Times. High on emotion, low on logic, Candy is concerned that ‘dads are doomed for ever to be seen as secondary parents, hovering in the wings of their … [Read more...]
What’s This Government For?
In response to Kathy Gyngell: Radicalisation and child rape – the no-go areas in liberal elite’s community agenda, Ken wrote: Police get a tip about systematic rape of white girls; do nothing. Government gets a tip about how unrestricted immigration is allowing in unsavoury types who end up committing acts of violence and murder against the … [Read more...]
It’s State Education, Not Home Schooling, We Need to Worry About
Mum and dad or the state? If you had to make a choice, to whom would you entrust a child’s future? Few sane and rational people, regardless of political persuasion, are likely to plump for the institutions of government over the family. Generally, parents know best, not least when it comes to education. This ‘truth’ has been challenged most … [Read more...]