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
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism