David Coates
David Coates has a PhD in Intellectual History from University of St Andrews. He is a Catholic and a Tory, and tweets at @_jestingpilate_
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
