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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
