News Round-Up
6 July 2025
by Will Jones
Politics professor James Alexander says the liberal order that we cherish is incapable of defending itself without a sense of common purpose and that can only be provided by the Christian religion.
Dominic Cummings recently held forth on the "deep state" at a meeting in Oxford. Politics professor James Alexander thinks he is half-right – which is more right than nearly all his critics.
Labour is set to make Britain's universities an arm of the state, says Dr David McGrogan. The Education Secretary has set out her plans to make life more comfortable for higher education – at the cost of its freedom.
Labour is "mission-driven", says Keir Starmer. But the last thing anyone should want is a Government with a mission, says David McGrogan. That's because a Government with a mission needs conscripts. That's you and me.
Dr David McGrogan contrasts the 'teleocracy' of Left-progressive thought with that of the authentic conservative who eschews grand social designs for the preservation of a civil way of life.
We're publishing an original piece today by David McGrogan, a Professor at Northumbria Law School, in which he recommends some books to help us understand how we ended up living under the plimsol of soft totalitarianism.
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