Just booked my arrangements for the Russell Kirk Center Scruton/Kirk conference in Michigan. Can't wait to see so many great people there! James Matthew Wilson Cecilia Kirk Nelson Ferenc Hörcher Christopher J. Scalia Alan Cornett Dr Daniel Pitt Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation Bracy Bersnak Tom, Aspiring Simpleton kirkcenter.org/highlights/pro…

Under Academic Director, Tim Aker, our first symposium will centre on exploring Margaret Thatcher’s legacy. The symposium is a one day conference followed by a drinks reception. £75 Early Bird Tickets available until midnight Saturday 31st May. tickettailor.com/events/margare…

🎓 When academics self-censor, society loses.

God how terrible - what a tragic loss Journalist Patrick O'Flynn dies age 59 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

Preparations are well underway in the Senate Chamber for the Opening of the 45th Parliament, where His Majesty #KingCharlesIII will deliver the Speech from the Throne on May 27. #SenCA #ThroneSpeech

My event American Enterprise Institute to launch 13 NOVELS CONSERVATIVES WILL LOVE (BUT PROBABLY HAVEN'T READ), featuring an excellent (and animated!) introduction from Yuval Levin and a wide-ranging conversation with Andy Ferguson, is available to watch here: youtube.com/live/LvRKkIABf…

A titan died today. Alasdair MacIntyre’s writings may not be familiar to everyone, but they reshaped the landscape of moral philosophy and showed us how attending to the thought of the past can help us find our way to a more flourishing future.

'Margaret Thatcher’s colleagues began by underestimating her. She was a woman in what was still a man’s world, which meant that voting for her was a satisfyingly conspicuous way to protest against the leadership of Edward Heath,' Andrew Gimson via ConservativeHome conservativehome.com/2025/05/23/tha…

#OTD 1894: Two months after the end of a unique fourth period as British prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone completes the final episodic entry in his diary, which he had kept updated without a substantial break since 16 July 1825.

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by nigel biggar is one of the best books that I have read recently. It is academically rigorous, it is open about its assumptions and argues from clear premises. Bigger also takes on his interlocutors' arguments with grace and aplomb.

This understanding of a university seems like a problem for institutions that depend heavily on the national government, and ultimately the national public.

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Sometimes a thing is bad for reasons other than polling badly.

Very pleased to have written a report with Yuan Yi Zhu for Policy Exchange Policy Exchange that challenges the commonly heard view that the European Convention on Human Rights is a “British legacy” – and that to leave the Convention would be to a “betrayal” of Sir Winston

Congratulations to Boris Johnson & Carrie Johnson on the birth of Poppy Eliza Josephine.🥂 ‘Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord.. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them’ (Ps 127:3ff).

'The Chagos surrender deal cannot be defended on any authoritative legal grounds. Parliament has the right and the duty to stop this act of national humiliation.' Yuan Yi Zhu telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

'All of this marked the loss of a shared cultural language which affirmed the idea of spirituality, and made it a normal part of life to share it.' BijanOmrani via Church Times churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

It is great to see that Amazon.co.uk is offering a Kindle Edition of Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton by Ferenc Hörcher and me. amazon.co.uk/Intellectual-C…