The CUCA Blog

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May 31, 2020

Fear and Loathing in Minneapolis, why conservatives should deplore the mindless destruction of Ameri

Time was that mobs would shout, "crucify him!" and "we want Barrabas!" Now they shout "f**k white people!" and "we want new trainers!" Pa...

Issac Fung

May 30, 2020

I, too, stand with the protesters of Minneapolis. A conservative’s response to the death of George F

Eight minutes and forty-six seconds. That was how long it took for George Floyd to die at the hands of the Minnesotan police officer Dere...

James Vitali

May 29, 2020

Lessons from Disraeli’s Institutionalism: why Conservatives must be the champions of the NHS

At the Union a few terms ago, a debate was held on the motion “This House regrets the NHS’s status as a national religion”. It was a vali...

Edward Pygge

May 26, 2020

The campaign against Dominic Cummings is politically motivated, contrived, and deceitful faux outrag

In the past, investigative journalism yielded significant scoops of great public interest which exposed major corruption and dodgy deals....

Phil Salway

May 25, 2020

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter

Sitting down to write this I don’t think it requires 1500 words and I’m not sure I have the time. There are dogs to walk, punts to sit in...

Edward Pygge

May 12, 2020

Nearly two months in, the lockdown has proven to be flawed.

It's hard to be rational when thinking about a malignant disease like Covid-19, but we must face some hard truths about the policy of loc...

Zachary Marsh

May 10, 2020

Coronavirus shows that the mainstream media are out of control

Looking out on my sunny garden amidst the inertia of lockdown, I can’t help but see the parallels between our current state of paralysis ...

Muslim Gore

May 9, 2020

The Three Godfathers of South Sudan

If someone were to ask the average South Sudanese in any city, region or country about the Founding Fathers of South Sudan, the answer th...

Edward Pygge

Apr 29, 2020

Why the Left is wrong about Britain's arms industry

Recent commentary published in Varsity has argued that the Cambridge Careers Service should effectively portray arms companies in a polit...

William Phelps

Apr 18, 2020

The Radical Left and the Danger of Immanetised Eschatology

In the past 3 years, I’ve had the pleasure of visiting the Russian town of Bor twice. Described by Lonely Planet as an ‘unattractive sett...

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