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Conservatism
"The project of my book Conservatism is to develop a meaningful definition that will demonstrate conservatism's importance, and pose demanding questions for alternative ideologies."
Kieron O'Hara,
Montreal Review, October 2011
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As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe
'Our parents are grateful because they’re voting,' said Marta Solanas, 27, referring to older Spaniards’ decades spent under the Franco dictatorship. 'We’re the first generation to say that voting is worthless.'
Nicholas Kulish,
New York Times, 28 September 2011
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Standing for Something
How an abiding naiveté about the real nature of power and the corruption of power blinded him to the baser motives of many of those who had grabbed it.
Mark Seddon, Biteback,
26 September 2011
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'I told you so' is not enough to save a left in crisis
Social Democrat leaders across Europe are seething with frustration. The global crash should have been their opportunity: markets had failed and the state was there to pick up the pieces. Instead, left-leaning parties almost everywhere (Denmark is a recent exception) are out, or heading out, of power.
Philip Stephens,
Financial Times, 26 September 2011
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‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book
On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.
Brendan O'Neill,
spiked, 23 September 2011
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The Future of Conservatism: values revisited
The last outright Conservative victory came under John Major in 1992. Whilst the coalition government is predominately Conservative, the party has had to compromise with the Liberal Democrats in order to govern. To prepare for the future, there needs to be a longer-term Conservative vision for Britain.
David Davis, Brian Binley &John Baron, Biteback,
22 September 2011
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Some real research into alcohol
Activists, neo-prohibitionists and anti-capitalists are much happier blaming the corporations and the institutions, man, than looking at the real factors behind excessive drinking and alcoholism.
Chris Snowden,
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, 21 September 2011
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Message to protesters: Basildon is not Bosnia
The invasion of Dale Farm by everyone from the UN to Amnesty to Fergal bloody Keane shows how desperate activists are for a Bosnia replay.
Brendan O'Neill,
spiked, 20 September 2011
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