David Coates
David Coates has a PhD in Intellectual History from University of St Andrews. He is a Catholic and a Tory.
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one