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Books

Conservatism By Dominic Wightman, Reviewed

BY PETER HARRIS When the Labour Party chose Jeremy Corbyn as its leader, Peter Hitchens wrote an article for the Daily Mail asking whether the Conservative Party could choose a true conservative leader now that the Labour Party had a true socialist as theirs. What the Conservatives had as prime minister during Corbyn’s party leadership were three leaders who are best defined as neo-liberals: David … Continue reading Conservatism By Dominic Wightman, Reviewed

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Book Reviews

Arcadia by Dominic Wightman: A Review

BY PETER HARRIS In his book Arcadia, Dominic Wightman reintroduces us to the genre of utopian writing which has been eclipsed in the popular imagination by dystopias such as those of George Orwell’s Oceania and Suzanne Collins’ Panem. This genre has a long and established pedigree, going back to ancient times with Plato’s Republic and the early modern era with Thomas More’ s Utopia. It … Continue reading Arcadia by Dominic Wightman: A Review

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Thoughts, War

Blood Spattered Sceptre

BY PETER HARRIS Rightly do D-Day and the Normandy beach landings grip the imagination. Its scale was immense: it was the largest seaborne invasion in history involving thousands of boats, ships and aircraft and around 160,000 troops from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. (If I have left out any nation, please correct … Continue reading Blood Spattered Sceptre

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Politics

Wednesday Full of Woe

BY PETER HARRIS Though rare, there are in England’s history examples of attempts at forcefully subverting Parliament. The tumultuous Stuart era provides three examples. On 4 January 1642, Charles I illegally entered the House of Commons with an armed force to arrest his fiercest parliamentary critics. He left empty handed as John Pym and his allies had already fled in a boat down the Thames. … Continue reading Wednesday Full of Woe

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International

How Successful Would a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Be?

BY PETER HARRIS It is a truism within military history that the outcomes of conflicts have been decisively affected, among other factors, by the terrain and climate in which the conflict occurred. Two of the reasons Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union survived Napoleon and Hitler’s offensives respectively is because of the enormous size of Russian and Soviet territory which was impossible to subdue and … Continue reading How Successful Would a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Be?

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International Relations

Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part I

BY PETER HARRIS Russia and China have never been so close in their relations as they are now. As affirmation of this deeper tie, in July 2023 around a dozen Russian and Chinese warships conducted naval exercises in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and in waters near Alaska. These had the double effect of demonstrating both nations’ commitment to being the hegemon within their … Continue reading Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part I

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Diplomacy

A Response to Henry Kissinger Part II

BY PETER HARRIS Part 1 of 2 is available here It is good to save the best till last, and in his analysis, Kissinger does just that. But if his analysis at this point is at its most original, it is also at its most terrifying as it concerns a novel threat that is existential in scope, but which can be understood analogously again through … Continue reading A Response to Henry Kissinger Part II

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Diplomacy

A Response to Henry Kissinger Part I

BY PETER HARRIS Henry Kissinger, the startlingly energetic centenarian, is dead. For those not acquainted with his career, he was the US Secretary of State under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and continued to play a key role in foreign policy formulation as a consultant after his departure from high office. Whatever one thinks of his approach to diplomacy during his exceptionally lengthy career, Kissinger … Continue reading A Response to Henry Kissinger Part I

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Charity

The Treacherous Hypocrisy of the Anti-VAWG Charities

BY PETER HARRIS The massacre of the innocents that occurred in Southern Israel on 7 October has, like a flare sent up, exposed nefarious attitudes that otherwise would have remained hidden behind a façade of right-on self-righteousness. The anti-Israel bias of the BBC, the anti-Semitism of many university academics and the rabid jihadism of a number of UK born and immigrant Muslims have been thrown … Continue reading The Treacherous Hypocrisy of the Anti-VAWG Charities

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