A Lot of Conservative Patriotic Articles to Peruse

 

The BBC’s Christmas collapse is nothing short of catastrophic David Keighley In the run-up to Christmas, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy launched a public consultation on the future of the BBC. She invited audiences to reflect on what they value, what should change, and how the Corporation should be funded in the next Charter period. Arguably, it is a waste of time. Because on Christmas Day, the […] You can’t prove there is a God – and you can’t prove there isn’t Peter Mullen I HAVE been thinking of some words from that prominent zoologist Richard Dawkins: ‘Believing in God is like believing in fairies or in Santa Claus.’ Or, if it comes to it, believing in the words of Richard Dawkins. He thinks that if God exists we ought to be able to see him with the aid […] Kenneth Clark’s majestic Civilisation series – Part 5, ‘The hero as the artist’ Kathy Gyngell THIS is the fifth episode of the seminal British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark in 1969 that the New Yorker at the time described as revelatory. Over the 13 episodes Sir Kenneth traverses and explains the different elements and key developments of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages, communicating their meaning and beauty. You can […] TCW’s top ten blogs of the year: On the Gaza front line, I find the famine is a blatant lie Richard Tice We continue our year ending tradition of publishing our top ten most read articles of the year. At number four is Richard Tice’s report from the Gaza front line two years on from Hamas’s October 7 Jewish massacre. This article was first published on October 6, 2025. OF THE many shortcomings of this government, a casual indifference […] Our top ten articles of the week TCW THESE are the most-read articles we have published in the past week. 1 How to destroy a country: Part 1 – Paul Weston 2 This perverse government is a greater threat to the British way of life than Russia – Jonathon Riley 3 A line in the sand: Let’s be honest about the Bondi Beach […] How to destroy a country, part 4 Paul Weston IN THE last of this series of four articles, ‘How To Destroy A Country’, which were first published in the US website Gates of Vienna, Paul Weston focuses on the last stage of a nation’s destruction, involving a new replacement ‘client’ population. The article was written in 2012  and might have seemed cynical or alarmist then. Today the […] TCW’s top ten blogs of the year: How did the Telegraph get the Robinson rally so wrong? John Hale We continue our year ending tradition of publishing our top ten most read articles of the year. At number five is John Hale’s report on how theTelegraph got Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally so wrong, which was first published on September 17, 2025. THE Unite the Kingdom rally was by any standards a wonderful success. Anything from 500,000 to well over […] Kenneth Clark’s majestic Civilisation series – Part 4, ‘Man, the measure of all things’  Kathy Gyngell THIS is the fourth episode of the seminal British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark in 1969 that the New Yorker at the time described as revelatory. Over the 13 episodes Sir Kenneth traverses and explains the different elements and key developments of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages, communicating their meaning and beauty. You can […] Britain through the ages: Post-war reinvention TCW THIS documentary by Brendan Walker explores how scientific breakthroughs transformed post-war Britain in the 1950s. From nylon stockings to vinyl records, the petrochemical industry fuelled a revolutionary shift in lifestyles, transforming fashion, music, and everyday life and creating a pronounced cultural generation gap. My books of the year Robin Fellow I OFTEN wait until the paperback comes out, so few of these recommendations were published this year. Here are some recent favourites. Outcast, by Oliver Basciano An interesting take on leprosy, which I had wrongly assumed had disappeared. The book is more travelogue than medical history but none the worse for that. Has any parent […] How to destroy a country, part 3 Paul Weston This is the third of four articles by Paul Weston which were first published in 2012. You can read Part 1 here on the post-war rise and influence of ‘intellectual’ Marxism through our universities; and Part 2 here on its continuing long march through our institutions and concomitant negative effect on industry and the economy. Today Weston looks […] Oscar Wilde through the eyes of his grandson Liz Hodgkinson After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal, by Merlin Holland; Europa Editions, £30 EVEN when dying in France in poverty and disgrace, aged only 46, Oscar Wilde could not resist a witticism. He proclaimed: ‘The wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.  One of us has to go.’ The wallpaper of course, won. […] Britain through the ages: Understanding ghosts TCW DR Eleanor Janega visits the ruins of Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire to explore some of the most terrifying stories to survive the medieval period. The 12 ghostly tales written by a monk on the blank back pages of a religious manuscript share traits with our own modern ghost stories but we learn that medieval […] TCW’s top ten blogs of the year: Funeral of a friend who had the covid booster – and developed raging cancer Professor Angus Dalgleish We continue our year-ending tradition of publishing our top ten most read articles of the year. At number six is Professor Angus Dalgleish’s article about vaccine booster-triggered turbo cancers. This article was first published on April 10, 2025. I HAVE just returned from the funeral of yet another friend who has died from an explosive cancer for which there was […] Kenneth Clark’s majestic Civilisation series – Part 3, ‘Romance and Reality’  Kathy Gyngell THIS is the third episode of the seminal British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark in 1969 that the New Yorker at the time described as revelatory. Over the 13 episodes Sir Kenneth traverses and explains the different elements and key developments of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages, communicating their meaning and beauty. You can […] Letters to the Editor Our Readers PLEASE send your letters (as short as you like) to info@conservativewoman.co.uk and mark them ‘Letter to the Editor’. We need your name and a county address, e.g. Yorkshire or London. Letters may be shortened. There is no guarantee of publication. *** Letter of the week: Commercial Christmas Dear Editor   I am right with you, Kathy, on the way Christmas seems to start earlier each year. We visited […]