Peter Hitchens
So happy to be serfs
In just a few short weeks we have cast aside freedoms it took centuries to win. Fawning faith in authority will lead to further outrages
A crown of thorns
A diminished, secular Britain means that the next coronation will not match the majesty and mystery of the last
The delusions of literary dystopias
Anti-Christian bile may be inventive, but it stems from dangerous misunderstandings
Only Defeat Can Save Conservatism
The Tory party has lost its way. David Cameron’s surrender to the Left has deprived the electorate of any real choice of government
Modi's myopia and indifference to the poor
Lockdown has exposed rifts in Indian society between the urban middle classes and those excluded from ‘civil’ society
Eliot’s editorial legacy
“The purpose of this magazine, and the sign of its intelligence, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously”
‘When freedom came, God disappeared’
One of Roger Scruton’s last works, an opera libretto set in Eastern Europe, contains some of his most revelatory thinking on the divine