Now look how many sorts of things there are which properly fall within the cognizance of humane reason, into so many branches does the tree of philosophy divide it selfe. And from the diversity of the matter about which they are conversant, there hath been given to those branches a diversity of Names too Hobbes: De Cive
Table of Contents
Action
- A Future for Freedom
- Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
- All said, and none done
- Army of clerks
- Birthing and slaying quangos rationally
- Build Back Britain, Boris
- Curbing professional associations
- Disaster planning – 1
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Fill(et)ing the Lords – 2
- Getting back to competence
- Go out amongst the land
- Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
- Housing: courting injustice – 1
- How to get things done
- Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
- Mill against the bureaucracy
- Minutiae – the big failing
- New world-teachers needed
- New Yeet Resolutions
- Now for LGAxit
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 1
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 2
- Privatise the Civil Service
- Register the establishment
- Rules for conservatives?
- Shoot for the Moon
- Sir Humphrey’s logic
- Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
- The new challenges for 2021
- The Shallow State
- We cannot win on social media
- Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
- What did You do in the Culture War?
- What happened to the hard rain?
- Where is the text, Boris?
The Culture War
- Churchill’s thoughts on the day
- Closing the web
- Every story needs a villain
- Fantastic? For first steps
- Five Questions for the new ochlocracy
- Flags of conquest
- Hate speech: the Denning Solution
- Is Twitter evil?
- Lashings of a wounded tiger
- Let them sing
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Memo from the Minister
- Missing role models?
- Motivations of the Cancel Culture
- Oh the things we said in dark corners….
- Open letter to the BBC
- Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
- Resisting neo-feudalism
- Righting the rights
- Some statues must fall
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
- The Shallow State
- The Wrong Side of History
- Twit twit To-where?
- Understood? I don’t think you have, mate
- We’re with you, Sir Salman
- What did You do in the Culture War?
- Who’s gone woke?
- Whom are you serving?
- Will Drakeford demolish the castles?
Disaster planning
Project ’29
The Borisiad
See The Borisiad
Brexit
- 4 years ago we voted
- A Great Deal to Do
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Act now!
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
- Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
- As several doors open…
- Believe in the bin
- Bishops lead themselves into error
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Brexit moment 1688
- Brexit moment 1714
- Build the bridge, now
- Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
- Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
- Endgaming
- Every man to do his duty
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
- Five years, and who would have imagined?
- Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
- Floreat Ultonia?
- Flybe: Brexit to blame
- Got Brexit Done
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- Have we started to win?
- Headdesk, again. What next?
- How to fix the Ulster Protocol
- How to get things done
- I don’t know what has happened but…
- If it prosper
- Ireland abused, abandoned
- It’s not about Europe
- Last year was so last year, lads
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Major EU trade deal
- Meanwhile, in Brussels
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Quiet, smug anniversary
- Reviewing the EU’s proposals
- Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
- Securing the exit endgame
- Sign the Australia deal
- Start spreading the news: we’re leaving today
- Statesmanship, a lost art
- Supreme Tangle
- Tempestuous climate on QT
- The Alliance revolution, possibly
- The Casement Award: no entries yet?
- The five stages of Grieve
- The light and the fading stars
- The new challenges for 2021
- The next eleven months
- The vote and the trust issue
- The work begins: Get Brexit Done
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
- Top people are people too
- Trade talks: Summer in the City
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- UK-EU talks: the British proposal
- Vive L’Empereur?
- Westminster in the exit endgame
- What happens next for Boris?
- What is less known is the reply Aetius sent
- Where is the text, Boris?
- Where the Remainers were right
- You’re on your way now, Bill
Britain in the world
British Indian Ocean Territory
- Betrayal of our islands
- Custodians of wondrous places
- Dear Foreign Office; I was disappointed
- Dear Foreign Office…
- Guarding paradise
- Labour Treason on the Ocean
- Life in insular abundance
- Save the Indian Ocean
- Unruly international order
Constitution
- A cabal of its enemies
- A system failing in the middle
- Brexit moment 1714
- Constitutionally guaranteed despotism
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Differences Between Command And Counsell
- Dissolution Of Common-wealths Proceedeth From Imperfect Institution
- Dissolution Of Commonwealths: Want Of Absolute Power
- Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
- Fill(et)ing the Lords – 2
- Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
- Hobbes and the Libertarian – 1
- Inability in politicians
- Justice And Injustice What
- Limit voting rights
- Military coup in Westminster
- Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- On popular grievances
- Renewal to destruction
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- Soveraigne Power: The Hurt Proceeds From Not Submitting Readily
- Supreme Tangle
- The Abilities required in a Judge
- The Bill and the Rights
- The Constitution, mice and “yes but”
- The Constitution: mice undermine the wall
- The end of ‘King Oliver’
- The work begins: constitutional reform
- The year begins – 2020
- Things they won’t do with the British Constitution
- To the Extinction of their Democraty
Interest group capture
- Anti-Conversion laws
- Curbing professional associations
- Is the Housing Court dead?
- Lashings of a wounded tiger
- Memo from the Minister
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- Ochlocrats
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- The beggars: fake charities
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
- The Shallow State
- What did You do in the Culture War?
The state
- Absolute Soveraignty
- Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
- Army of clerks
- Counsellours
- Dissolution through private judgment
- Generation of a Common-wealth
- Getting back to competence
- Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
- How to get things done
- Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
- Mill against the bureaucracy
- Minutiae – the big failing
- No libertarian space colonies
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- Privatise the Civil Service
- Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Register the establishment
- Teapotohedral policy
- The abilities that are required of him that will deliberate of business of state
- The heart of kings is unsearchable
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
- The necessity of normality
- Unwarranted acts
- What happened to the hard rain?
- Wolven hearts
Culture
BBC
- A less preachy BBC: praise be
- Ban ‘Jerusalem’? Yes: long overdue
- Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
- Fallen riders – Auntie’s list
- Jeremy, hunted by his own quick hounds
- Open letter to the BBC
- Our Planet Matters to Auntie
- Question Time is meant to annoy everyone
- Tempestuous climate on QT
- The Salisbury Poisonings – a review
- The Secret History of Writing: musings
- The War of the Worlds on the BBC – a review
- Who’s gone woke?
The Culture War
- Churchill’s thoughts on the day
- Closing the web
- Every story needs a villain
- Fantastic? For first steps
- Five Questions for the new ochlocracy
- Flags of conquest
- Hate speech: the Denning Solution
- Is Twitter evil?
- Lashings of a wounded tiger
- Let them sing
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Memo from the Minister
- Missing role models?
- Motivations of the Cancel Culture
- Oh the things we said in dark corners….
- Open letter to the BBC
- Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
- Resisting neo-feudalism
- Righting the rights
- Some statues must fall
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
- The Shallow State
- The Wrong Side of History
- Twit twit To-where?
- Understood? I don’t think you have, mate
- We’re with you, Sir Salman
- What did You do in the Culture War?
- Who’s gone woke?
- Whom are you serving?
- Will Drakeford demolish the castles?
Poetry
- And Criffel sink in Solway
- Ban ‘Jerusalem’? Yes: long overdue
- Dane-geld
- Dante observes an eclipse
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
- In praise of plagiarism
- Scarcely a street, too few houses
- Stars that shall be bright when we are dust
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Waiting for the storm
- Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction
Reviews
- 2019 in review, with Fay Kinuise
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- A less preachy BBC: praise be
- Blazing trails
- Bloomsday
- Days of the Comet
- Fantastic? For first steps
- Fantasy islands
- I always side with the Morlocks
- Matt Hancock book exclusive
- Megalopolis – a mighty vision
- Missing role models?
- Oscars round-one-up
- Peace to be pursued
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Rules for conservatives?
- Summer of Rockets – a personal review
- Surviving the Stone Age: reviewed
- The Liberal Delusion: a retrospective
- The oldest story in the World
- The Salisbury Poisonings – a review
- The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
- The Secret History of Writing: musings
- The War of the Worlds on the BBC – a review
- Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
- We don’t need another hero
- Who’s gone woke?
Shakespeare
- Cakes and ale
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
- If music be the food of love…
- In praise of plagiarism
- Measures, four Measures
- Orsino the oddity
- Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
- So passes the season
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
- Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
- Whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow
- Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars
Δημος
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- A behemoth rises twittering
- And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king
- As Rome gave way to Byzantium…
- Beauty was reclaimed
- Bishops in jealous rage
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Burning; breaking
- Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
- Character imbues the endeavour
- Community returning
- Competitive panicking
- Crimes Against Private Men
- Dark times and better times
- Don’t make us resent this
- Elizabeth the Great
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Every story needs a villain
- Family, faith, flag, freedom
- Good night, sweet prince
- Gorchfygu’r Wyddfa
- Hobble Christmas and we starve
- I’ve got a little list: do you?
- In a sentence, Her Majesty defines us
- It’s a funny old game, politics
- Jubilant still
- Let us sit upon the ground
- Liberate the DIY stores
- Libertarian v Conservative at the ARC
- Long to reign over us
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Maying in June
- Never again.
- Never, never again
- No rest, not today
- No, and neither did she
- Not Rich men North of Richmond (on Thames)
- Not sure I should be bored
- Not where to lay his head
- Ochlocrats
- On the Jubilee
- Open letter to the BBC
- Ordinary extraordinary men
- Out to the blue remembered hills
- Oxford Street begins to reawaken
- Pam ŷch chi yna o hyd?
- Peace at Christ-tide
- Putin it like that, no
- Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
- Resisting neo-feudalism
- Solace of a Silly Season
- Swelter
- The Age turns
- The beggars: fake charities
- The dawn is coming after night
- The new challenges for 2021
- Under a false flag
- VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- We are better than this
- We cannot win on social media
- What did You do in the Culture War?
- Who will speak for the merchants?
- Wishing all a busy Christmas
- You’ll never take me a-skive, copper
In the congregation
Fay Kinuise
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- 2019 in review, with Fay Kinuise
- 2021: please tell me it’s over
- A hard rain’s a-Cummin’
- A review of 2023, in advance
- America loses its Virgin Islands
- An interview with Greta
- Boris Bounced
- Brexit to blame for COVID-19
- Celebrate COP26
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- COVID-19: a nation divided
- Dear Foreign Office; I was disappointed
- Dear Foreign Office…
- Dordogne diary
- Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
- Flybe: Brexit to blame
- Further leak of US-UK trade talks
- Getting the band back together
- Glasgow
- I’d Do Anything for Boris (But I Won’t Do That)
- Interviewing Putin
- Joe Biden’s inaugural speech leaked – exclusive
- Khan attacks opposition to ‘Firstborn’ plan
- Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
- Leaving Verbier
- Limit voting rights
- Looking forward at 2024
- Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
- Major EU trade deal
- Matt Hancock book exclusive
- Meat Month
- Messages pour in for Joe
- Minister’s general purpose resignation letter
- MP: vital importance of my Bill
- New comedy act opens in Brighton
- New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
- Not so smug now, are you Nigel?
- Oh, Donald, ye’re an unco loon
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Oscars round-one-up
- Pam ŷch chi yna o hyd?
- Putin: we’re coming for you
- Rachel the Reiver
- Revealed: why Britain did not reach the Moon first
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Second wave of bad rainbows threatened
- Sir Keir Kneeler: speech in full
- Some 2025 New Year’s re-illusions
- Stella standards of free speech
- Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Casement Award: no entries yet?
- The five stages of Grieve
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
- Titanic to appoint new Captain
- Trump in asylum
- Unsanctioned in Moscow
- Unsanctioned in Moscow – 2
- Well, Ofsted: what do you have to say for yourself?
- What is less known is the reply Aetius sent
- What we will see in 2026
- Your Davos sonsie face
History
- A melancholy centenary for Wales
- And hold their manhoods cheap
- Art in the word
- Blazing trails
- Conjecture Of The Time Past
- Dark times and better times
- Empire, interrupted
- Empty Bottles of Gentilisme
- Every man to do his duty
- Five Kings in Eden
- Forgetting Tank Man
- Honest, Georgian elections
- How easy to lose the peace
- Jacobean court farce
- Let us make a reparation to Africa
- Liberation; revival
- Never again.
- Of The Beginnings And Progresse Of Philosophy
- Pitt triumphant
- The Case of China
- The Eighteenth of June
- The historian and the time machine
- The oldest story in the World
- The shadow of John Wilkes
- The Wrong Side of History
- To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
- To the Extinction of their Democraty
- VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
- What is less known is the reply Aetius sent
Civil War and Restoration
- Brexit moment 1688
- Brexit moment 1714
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Cromwell despairs of Parliament again
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Fall of the House of Cromwell
- Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
- Governing locally and its frustrations
- How the war began
- Ireland: spark and anvil of the war
- Military coup in Westminster
- Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- The end of ‘King Oliver’
- The Prisoner King
- The Wrong Side of History
- Titus Oates
- Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
- Turmoil in their sovereignty
Inside the Bubble
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- A cabal of its enemies
- A hard rain’s a-Cummin’
- A new programme, and how to mend it
- A plague upon your inquiry
- A revolutionary in the Ministry
- Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
- Anti-Conversion laws
- Artifice of intelligence
- Believe in the bin
- Betrayal of our islands
- Bizarre self-defenestrations
- Blood on the carpet
- Boris Bounced
- Boris, the chosen one
- Borisdämmerung
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Build Back Britain, Boris
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Churchill’s thoughts on the day
- Closing the web – 2
- Colombeylesdeuxeglisesiste
- Competitive panicking
- Conservative Conference 2019: The Speech
- Conservative Conference Report: Day 3
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Crimes in the state
- Dane-geld
- Dear Foreign Office…
- Demanding sacrifices to the baalim
- Disaster planning – 1
- Disgraceful proceedings
- Easing money
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- From the Conservative Conference 2019
- Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
- Getting the band back together
- Gorton Bennett, what was that?
- Grenfell: alternative lessons
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- Hebdomas horribilis
- I don’t know what has happened but…
- I’d Do Anything for Boris (But I Won’t Do That)
- If it prosper
- Illogical crisis
- Iphigenia’s sisters
- It’s a funny old game, politics
- It’s not about Europe
- Jacobean court farce
- Jump off the bandwagon
- Lashings of a wounded tiger
- Last year was so last year, lads
- Losing believers
- Matt Hancock book exclusive
- Measures, four Measures
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- Minister’s general purpose resignation letter
- MP: vital importance of my Bill
- New comedy act opens in Brighton
- New party leader! And?
- No-escape Budget
- No, and neither did she
- Not so smug now, are you Nigel?
- Ochlocrats
- Oh the things we said in dark corners….
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Paterson and Liberty
- Praying for Boris
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Rachel the Reiver
- Rachel’s tenant problems
- Reading between the worry lines
- Rishi Sunak’s budget speech
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Set ’em running
- Sir Humphrey’s logic
- Sir Keir Kneeler: speech in full
- Spies, lies and mince pies
- Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
- Supreme Tangle
- Tariffying foolishness
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Casement Award: no entries yet?
- The curse of ’14 years’
- The disconcert orchestra
- The five stages of Grieve
- The grossest abuses of power
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
- The maddening of a paper MP
- The necessity of normality
- The new challenges for 2021
- The next eleven months
- The quiet leadership contest
- The Russia Report: was that it then?
- The shadow of John Wilkes
- The silence; the shock
- The Truss issue
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Budget
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
- The work begins: Get Brexit Done
- The year begins – 2020
- Titanic to appoint new Captain
- Titus Oates
- Top people are people too
- Twisted narrative
- Two-Year Keir
- Victory in Aberdeen
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- What do we make of Boris now?
- What happened to the hard rain?
- What happened; what happens
- What happens next for Boris?
- Where did it all go wrong for Boris?
- Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
- Whither Nigel?
- Who are hypocrites?
- You dirty, double-crossing chatty rat
Conservative leadership
- All said, and none done
- And then there were seven
- Boris Enigma
- Boris, the chosen one
- Borisdämmerung
- Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 1
- Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 2
- Downing Street: and so it begins
- Enter Ross
- Five try to squeeze through one door
- From Boris to Liz
- Green light, red faces, and Amber
- How would I answer last night’s leadership questions?
- Inability in politicians
- Is Boris Good Enough?
- Jeremy, hunted by his own quick hounds
- Leadership or caution
- Moderation, in moderation
- Put not your trust in princes
- Rudd, Amber: Green light for Boris
- Spies, lies and mince pies
- Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
- The contenders of 2022
- The Moderate Candidate
- The right Kemistry?
- The Truss issue
- The Wild One
- Twisted narrative
- What happened; what happens
- Winner is coming
Ireland
Law reform
- A new programme, and how to mend it
- A start to fixing judicial review
- Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
- Birthing and slaying quangos rationally
- Challenging the challenges
- Closing the web
- Closing the web – 2
- Curbing knee-jerk legislation
- Grenfell: alternative lessons
- Housing: courting injustice – 1
- Is the Housing Court dead?
- Judicial review: the Manifesto
- Judicious review
- Law and reason, and Coke: a dialogue
- Law: an abused word
- Levelling, locality, labyrinth
- Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
- Not where to lay his head
- Rachel’s tenant problems
- Righting the rights
- The Abilities required in a Judge
- The Bill and the Rights
- The Constitution, mice and “yes but”
- The Constitution: mice undermine the wall
- The problem of peace
- The rule of lawyers
- The UK Internal Market consultation
- The work begins: constitutional reform
- Unreasonable Judicial Review
- Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
- What is judicial review
Matters abroad
- A Christmas to all, and beyond us
- Berlin
- Berlin – 30 years
- Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
- Divided by a common politics
- Dordogne diary
- Empire, interrupted
- Ethiopia, burning paradise
- From disaster we must build
- I agree with Miriam
- I will remember the Armenians
- In Bruges
- Labour Treason on the Ocean
- May there be abundant peace
- New world-teachers needed
- O Canada, what have you done?
- Oh, Vienna!
- One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
- Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
- Scruton’s Anglosphere
- South Sudan praying for peace
- Statesmanship, a lost art
- The burden of Damascus
- The dawn in Persia
- The Fourth Afghan War
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house
- UnClausewitzian wars
- Unruly international order
- What has happened to Canada?
- What of Lagos?
- Who are the Iranians?
- Your Davos sonsie face
America
- A stronger President than we realise
- America loses its Virgin Islands
- As Rome gave way to Byzantium…
- Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
- Constitutionally guaranteed despotism
- Deathly rights
- Divided by a common politics
- Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
- Gorged Washington
- Gunshot at the end of reason
- Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
- In America now
- In Epstein’s dirty laundry
- Incapax imperii nisi imperasset
- Joe Biden’s inaugural speech leaked – exclusive
- Liberty for Puerto Rico
- Messages pour in for Joe
- Oh, Donald, ye’re an unco loon
- Oscars round-one-up
- Set ’em running
- Tariffying foolishness
- Texas weeping for her children
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house
- To the Extinction of their Democraty
- Trump in asylum
- Warm feeling of welcome
- Warring Savages of America, and Kings
- Your Davos sonsie face
China
- Blaming China
- China: a world apart
- Empire, interrupted
- Forgetting Tank Man
- Fragile China
- Labour Treason on the Ocean
- The Case of China
Russia
- Empire, interrupted
- From Diffidence Warre
- Interviewing Putin
- It is still not our war
- Putin it like that, no
- Putin: we’re coming for you
- The Russia Report: was that it then?
- The Russian Enigma
- Unsanctioned in Moscow
- Unsanctioned in Moscow – 2
- Человек и час
Parliament
- A new programme, and how to mend it
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Act now!
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Build the bridge, now
- Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Cromwell despairs of Parliament again
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Every man to do his duty
- Exhortation And Dehortation What
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- Hatred, Lust, Ambition, Covetousnesse, Causes Of Crime
- Have I missed something…?
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Headdesk, again. What next?
- Honest, Georgian elections
- Judicious review
- Law: an abused word
- Levelling, locality, labyrinth
- Military coup in Westminster
- Moderation, in moderation
- Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
- Not sure I should be bored
- Paterson and Liberty
- Pitt triumphant
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
- Rishi Sunak’s budget speech
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Securing the exit endgame
- See how they run
- Sign the Australia deal
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- Supreme Tangle
- Tax shot through the foot
- The abilities that are required of him that will deliberate of business of state
- The Bill and the Rights
- The five stages of Grieve
- The maddening of a paper MP
- The patient is dying. There is one cure
- The Russia Report: was that it then?
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
- Westminster in the exit endgame
- What happens next for Boris?
- Where the Remainers were right
- Worth and Dignity
Elections
- An end as it began
- Election done – now what?
- Gorton Bennett, what was that?
- Governing locally and its frustrations
- Hammering long, long streets
- Holes in the Blue Wall
- Honest, Georgian elections
- Limit voting rights
- Local politics is back
- Not so smug now, are you Nigel?
- Of The Right Of Succession
- One out of three is bad
- Two-Year Keir
- Up the Monkey Hangers!
- Victory in Aberdeen
- Warm feeling of welcome
- Where have all the Tories gone?
- Whither Nigel?
General Election 2019
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- Bizarre self-defenestrations
- Boris unleashed
- Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
- Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn
- Fallen riders – Auntie’s list
- Further leak of US-UK trade talks
- Judicial review: the Manifesto
- Knockout
- Letterboxes, endless letterboxes
- Not a sch-lur but a telling sch-lip
- Politics makes screaming madness
- Round 1: both challengers still standing
- Selecting the select few
- The fine art of pop-up journalism
- The five stages of Grieve
- The Last Tory Government?
General Election 2024
- A very cold morning
- An end as it began
- Fantasy league politics
- Husting in a village church
- It turned colder, that’s where it ends
The work begins
- Have we started to win?
- Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
- Illogical crisis
- Minutiae – the big failing
- Now for LGAxit
- Tax shot through the foot
- The UK Internal Market consultation
- The work begins: constitutional reform
- The work begins: Get Brexit Done
- The year begins – 2020
- Up the Monkey Hangers!
- Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
- You’re on your way now, Bill
Philosophy
- A time to rend, and a time to sew
- Absolute Soveraignty
- Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
- Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
- Aristotle was wrong about moderation
- Armed on the street
- Art in the word
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Blazing trails
- Bloodlust
- Caliban the wild man
- Conjecture of the Future
- Conjecture Of The Time Past
- Counsellours
- Creature of the Full Moon
- Credulity – ignorance – curiosity
- Crimes Against Private Men
- Crimes in the state
- Dark times and better times
- Deposing our heroes
- Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
- Differences Between Command And Counsell
- Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 1
- Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 2
- Dissolution Of Common-wealths Proceedeth From Imperfect Institution
- Dissolution Of Commonwealths: Want Of Absolute Power
- Dissolution through private judgment
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Exhortation And Dehortation What
- Falsity in self-justification
- Family, faith, flag, freedom
- From disaster we must build
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- Generation of a Common-wealth
- Good Wit, Judgment etc resumed
- Good Wit, Or Fancy; Good Judgement; Discretion
- Hatred, Lust, Ambition, Covetousnesse, Causes Of Crime
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Hobbes and Liberty
- Hobbes and the Libertarian – 1
- Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
- Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
- I always side with the Morlocks
- Ignorance from Custome; Ignorance of Peace and Nature
- Ignorance; thence confidence and folly
- In fear of Jahannam
- In praise of plagiarism
- Intellectuall Vertue
- Iphigenia’s sisters
- It’s an anti-social distance, actually
- Justice And Injustice What
- Justice and reason – 2
- Justice Not Contrary To Reason
- Law and reason, and Coke: a dialogue
- Let us make a reparation to Africa
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Libertarian v Conservative at the ARC
- Madnesse
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Melancholy, Madnesse and the Greeks
- Melchizedeck was King of Salem
- Mill on truth in its fragility
- Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
- Moderation, in moderation
- Mourning – a mystery
- New Year: new opportunities
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- Of The Beginnings And Progresse Of Philosophy
- Of the Difference of Manners
- Of the Difference of Manners – 2
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …2
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …3 – nasty, brutish, and short
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery
- On popular grievances
- One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
- Peace at Christ-tide
- Propitiating the gods, like the Romans
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Putin it like that, no
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
- Rage and Melacholy Madnesse
- Reason What It Is
- Reason, Error and Absurdity
- Science
- Science is recent
- Scruton’s Anglosphere
- Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- Song of the Exile
- South Sudan praying for peace
- Soveraigne Power: The Hurt Proceeds From Not Submitting Readily
- The Abilities required in a Judge
- The Acorns of Philosophy
- The Babylonish Captivity of the Church, politically
- The broken fence
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The fearsome state of manhood
- The heart of kings is unsearchable
- The institution of a Commonwealth
- The Leviathan
- The Liberal Delusion: a retrospective
- The Nature of Dreams
- The Noble Savage, Caliban, and Hobbes
- The problem of peace
- The road and Damascus
- The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
- The Study of Human Nature
- To the Antiquity itself I think nothing due
- Trayne Of Thoughts Unguided
- Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
- University What It Is
- Waking as from sleep
- War v Terrorism question: the simple answer
- Warre Of Every One Against Every One
- Warring Savages of America, and Kings
- Who are hypocrites?
- Who is the Moon?
- Worth and Dignity
Education
- Character imbues the endeavour
- Insignificant Speech as madness
- Missing role models?
- Of Anger in Rhetoric
- Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
- The historian and the time machine
- To follow knowledge like a sinking star
- To the Antiquity itself I think nothing due
- University What It Is
- Well, Ofsted: what do you have to say for yourself?
- Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?
Scrutony
- Beauty was reclaimed
- New world-teachers needed
- Not Rich men North of Richmond (on Thames)
- Our Planet Matters to Auntie
- Scruton’s Anglosphere
- Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
- Teapotohedral policy
- The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
Speech
- A behemoth rises twittering
- A new muzzle from Nicola
- Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
- Bishops in jealous rage
- Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
- Closing the web
- Closing the web – 2
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Freeing speech in Project ’29
- Giving offence
- Good Wit, Judgment etc resumed
- Good Wit, Or Fancy; Good Judgement; Discretion
- Gorchfygu’r Wyddfa
- Gunshot at the end of reason
- Hate speech: the Denning Solution
- Inconstant Names
- Let them sing
- Lost to translation
- Mill addresses no-platforming
- Mill on truth in its fragility
- New Year: new opportunities
- Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
- Of Anger in Rhetoric
- Oh the things we said in dark corners….
- One small step for the Isle of Man
- Open letter to the BBC
- Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
- Resisting neo-feudalism
- Stella standards of free speech
- Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
- Taking offence
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The fine art of pop-up journalism
- Twit twit To-where?
- Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
- Under a false flag
- We cannot win on social media
- We’re with you, Sir Salman
- Whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow
- Wolven hearts
Reason and science
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- A Biblical AI strategy
- Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
- Artifice of intelligence
- Artifice of intelligence – 2
- Blazing trails
- Credulity – ignorance – curiosity
- Dante observes an eclipse
- Fifty years on, and the frontier is open
- Ignorance from Custome; Ignorance of Peace and Nature
- Ignorance; thence confidence and folly
- Insignificant Speech as madness
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Madnesse
- No libertarian space colonies
- One small step for the Isle of Man
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
- Reason What It Is
- Reason, Error and Absurdity
- Resisting neo-feudalism
- Science
- Science is recent
- Shoot for the Moon
- Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
- The Nature of Dreams
- The Ulster Bridge
- The Way to the Stars
- Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
- Victory in the heights
- Why all medical advice is wrong
- Why list astrology as a science?
Adam Smith
- 250 Years of the modern world
- Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
- Productive and Unproductive Labour
- Sign the Australia deal
- The Case of China
Environment
- A less preachy BBC: praise be
- An interview with Greta
- Beauty was reclaimed
- Between two fires
- Celebrate COP26
- Custodians of wondrous places
- Deadly, green distraction
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Ethiopia, mending paradise
- Green sermons
- Guarding paradise
- Lost amongst the trees
- Maddening the priests
- No, XR, I don’t believe you
- Our Planet Matters to Auntie
- Save the Indian Ocean
- Tempestuous climate on QT
- The broken fence
- We are going green
- Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction
Plague
- A plague upon your inquiry
- All the things I meant to do
- Are we at last to be free?
- Back to work
- Blaming China
- Brexit to blame for COVID-19
- Community returning
- Competitive panicking
- COVID-19: a nation divided
- Covid-22
- Deeper into communal panic
- Disgraceful proceedings
- Does anyone understand the rules?
- Don’t make us resent this
- Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
- Go out amongst the land
- Half a cheer for vaccine passports
- Hobble Christmas and we starve
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
- It’s an anti-social distance, actually
- Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
- Leaving Verbier
- Liberate the DIY stores
- Lockdown breakdown
- Masked unmasked
- Melancholy, Madnesse and the Greeks
- Mr Internet’s Sunday Morning Service
- New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
- Out to the blue remembered hills
- Oxford Street begins to reawaken
- Praying for Boris
- Propitiating the divine NHS
- Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
- Reading between the worry lines
- Scarcely a street, too few houses
- Second wave of bad rainbows threatened
- Spinning doctors
- Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
- The dawn is coming after night
- The necessity of normality
- The patient is dying. There is one cure
- Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
- Trade talks: Summer in the City
- Under marshal law
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Waiting for the storm
- Waking as from sleep
- What about those who are immune?
- What happened to immunity passports?
- Why all medical advice is wrong
- Yearning to be unfree
- You’ll never take me a-skive, copper
Religion
- A Biblical AI strategy
- A Christmas to all, and beyond us
- A melancholy centenary for Wales
- A peaceful Christmas to all
- A safe, Hobbesian Christmas to all readers
- A time to rend, and a time to sew
- And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king
- Anti-Conversion laws
- Assassins of an Archbishop
- Awaiting the resurrection
- Ban ‘Jerusalem’? Yes: long overdue
- Bishops in jealous rage
- Bishops lead themselves into error
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Cakes and ale
- Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
- Catching the Parson
- Deadly, green distraction
- Demanding sacrifices to the baalim
- Deposing our heroes
- Easter hymns
- Empty Bottles of Gentilisme
- Enfolded in the divine
- Gnawing inadequacy
- Green sermons
- If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
- In fear of Jahannam
- In What Sense Other Articles May Be Called Necessary
- Insignificant Speech as madness
- Losing believers
- Lost to translation
- Maddening the priests
- Melchizedeck was King of Salem
- Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
- Mr Internet’s Sunday Morning Service
- Not where to lay his head
- Of the Office of our Blessed Saviour
- Peace to be pursued
- Propitiating the gods, like the Romans
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Put not your trust in princes
- Raising Low Sunday
- Reformation Day
- Tell us art thou he that should come to reign
- The Babylonish Captivity of the Church, politically
- The dawning of hope in Jerusalem
- The heart of kings is unsearchable
- The towel and the bowl
- To judge and not examine is not just
- Troublous Trinity Talks
- Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?
- Who are hypocrites?
- Whom are you serving?
Ulster
- Close the Ulster Bypass
- How to fix the Ulster Protocol
- Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
- The Alliance revolution, possibly
- The UK Internal Market consultation
- The Ulster Bridge
Warre and Peace
- A Christmas to all, and beyond us
- A safe, Hobbesian Christmas to all readers
- And Criffel sink in Solway
- And then there was silence
- Armed on the street
- Army of clerks
- Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
- From Diffidence Warre
- Generation of a Common-wealth
- How easy to lose the peace
- How the war began
- Ireland: spark and anvil of the war
- It is still not our war
- Liberation; revival
- Make war fun
- Never again.
- Ordinary extraordinary men
- Peace to be pursued
- Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
- Renewal to destruction
- South Sudan praying for peace
- Stars that shall be bright when we are dust
- The case for declaring war
- The Fourth Afghan War
- The institution of a Commonwealth
- The problem of peace
- The Russian Enigma
- To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
- Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
- UnClausewitzian wars
- VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
- War v Terrorism question: the simple answer
- Warre Of Every One Against Every One
- Warring Savages of America, and Kings
- We are better than this
- We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds
- Человек и час
Where it all went wrong for…
- The curse of ’14 years’
- Where did it all go wrong for Boris?
- Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
- Where it all went wrong for – Theresa May