The role of the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel in bringing about Catholic emancipation in this country provides strong foundations.
Furthermore, there have been huge efforts at places of worship to stop the spread of the virus.
He had a rare gift for reaching Jewish and non-Jewish and popular and elite audiences with his advocacy of community over individualism.
The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.
If we allow the Left to impose their own ideology as the unassailable cultural norm, then we diminish the responsibilities of elected office.
Often hundreds of years old, they contend with crumbling roofs, deteriorating halls, and other inadequate facilities. These spaces desperately need funding.
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I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.
The existing rules are inconsistent and hypocritical. They do not reflect a 24/7 economy, where people can purchase online and receive deliveries any time.
The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.
But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.
A limited suspension is one thing, lasting change would be another. And so often, nothing is so permanent as the temporary.
Its bishops’ latest attack on Cummings will do nothing to enamour the electorate.
How prepared are we for strict social distancing for the forseeable future, compulsory masks, closed leisure facilities – and a semi-functioning economy?
Introduced with the best of intentions, they have grown and morphed beyond reason – more so than Macpherson could surely have imagined.