True liberals must fight for Enlightenment values
In this week’s Spectator Diary, Douglas Murray, author of Neoconservatism and director of the Centre for Social Cohesion writes about a dinner date in New York:
Though only ten years older than me, Ayaan Hirsi Ali continues to refer to me as some impossibly young child, still refusing to allow me to pay for meals until [...]
The tragic premiership of Tony Blair
Theodore Dalrymple delivers a blistering (and very thorough) attack on Tony Blair’s domestic record and, indeed, the character of the man himself:
Blair, then, is no hero. Many in Britain believe that he has been the worst prime minister in recent British history, morally and possibly financially corrupt, shallow and egotistical, a man who combined the [...]
Slaves of the state
The proposal by the Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation in preference to the current opt-in system addresses a real problem. There are currently too few organs available for the current demand for transplants. The suggestion is that everyone should be presumed to have given [...]