George Smedley
George Smedley is a member of the University Officers’ Training Corps at St Andrews university and Chairman of St Andrews University Conservative Association.
Undergrad’s Army
Let University Officers’ Training Corps be our Home Guard
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
