By Sam Barrett Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be (much of) a history lesson; just bear with me! “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others”. The purported Churchillian quote rings true now more than ever. In my view, though, this small excursus should not be taken as a critique…
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The Safe Space Policy is Authoritarian- It Must be Abolished
By Tamara Berens King’s Libertarian Society are launching our Abolish Safe Spaces at KCLSU Campaign to raise awareness of the authoritarian nature of our Student Union and the danger of the ‘Safe Space’ culture which pervades student campus events. On the 18th of October, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP addressed the King’s College London Conservative Association, and…
A Market Based Solution to the Fees Problem
By Harry Tanner The Labour party’s promise to abandon tuition fees and “ambition” to annul graduate debt is ill-disguised hucksterism. In the – not actually secure – knowledge that young people voted in swathes to Remain and are utterly disenfranchised with the Tory party, Corbyn and his merry band of Bolsheviks sought to galvanize this…
Don’t Listen to Me- I’m a Nutter!
By Jack Elsom We want to hear your ideas, Jack! What Conservative policies would you like to see in our election manifesto? If I had a quid for every time I’ve received a central office dispatched email of this kind – one which urges me to send in policy proposals – I’d have about six…
Tempora Mutantur, nos et Mutamur in Illis
By Dilsher Singh Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister and recently Jacob Rees-Mogg MP in his first tweet have very aptly used the famous Latin quote tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. (Translation: Times change and we change with them) But does it apply to the Conservative Party? As a student, I’d be lying…
Moving the Centre, not Occupying it
By Sam Barrett At the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security of June this year, Henry Kissinger gave a speech during which he briefly recalled a conversation he had once had with Mrs Thatcher. At the time she was a fairly obscure education minister, yet her prudent language foretold the success she…
The Case for a Politics of Tolerance
By Jack Emsley A quick disclaimer; unlike Laura Pidock, I have a great deal of respect for those who I disagree with politically, and especially those in political parties that are not my own. It is sometimes fashionable in the age of online echo chambers to disparage those who vote a different way to us,…
Venezuela shows the Worst of the British Left
By Charlie Collard Every day, we see yet another photo of the chaos in Venezuela. People are starving and rioting. Mothers are fighting through queues of hundreds in the Latin American nation’s largest cities, waiting for hours in the heat, to get food for their families. This is because the government’s nationalised stores cannot provide…
Fighting Back to Find your Voice
Fighting Back to Find your Voice Simon Richards, The Freedom Association Universities should be places where established opinions are challenged – by criticism, by logic, by argument, by debate, by discussion, by testing. Yet, in recent years, they have become bywords for intolerance and for closing down any view not approved of by the left-liberal…
The Rise of Britain’s Donald Trump
By Jack Emsley Admit it, you’re secretly very smug about the chaos ensuing in American politics. The era of Trump has ushered in a blend of childish name calling, toxic political tribalism, and wild conspiracy theories against the media, the polls and, most worryingly, the democratic process. Thank goodness we Brits are more…
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