The UK’s recommended limit for men is now one of the lowest among countries that issue guidance for an appropriate intake of beer, wine and spirits and makes it one of only a handful of countries to issue identical advice for both sexes. The 14-unit figure is based at a level expected to cause an overall lifetime risk of death … [Read on]
THE SALISBURY REVIEW IS A CONSERVATIVE QUARTERLY AVAILABLE AS A PAPER MAGAZINE. EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS ON POLITICS, THE ARTS, SCIENCE, HISTORY, MUSIC AND RELIGION. Ordering The Salisbury Review is fast and safe. Simply choose the best option for you (printed or digital) and order through our secure partners FASTSPRING. Printed and digital versions are available for delivery anywhere in the world in any currency. You … [Read on]
Roger Scruton on ‘Free Speech’ Wednesday, 11 May 2016, At 6 p.m. Blackfriars Hall, St Giles, Oxford Refreshments The Salisbury Review
Towards the end of last year, I noticed a headline on the BBC website about a mother writing to her transgender son (supportively, presumably). As there is literally no subject on the face of this planet that interests me less than trans-anything, I scrolled on. However it lodged in the back of my mind. Just how remorselessly, I wondered, had … [Read on]
God’s Sparking Plug By a curious coincidence a firing of the Great Sparking Plug at CERN, known to most of us as the Hadron Collider, after which scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, occurred on the third day of the month of the Olympics, which puts the lakeshore site on the same footing as Delphi, the sacred Pan … [Read on]
You might be forgiven for thinking that if we vote to leave the EU in June, it will happen. Of course we expect some foot stamping in Brussels, but within a year Britain would be out of the EU, trading on its own, restricting immigration, even talking about withdrawing from the International Court of Human Rights – not an EU … [Read on]
This November a crowd watching a ‘friendly’ football match in Istanbul between Greece and Turkey booed and chanted ‘Allah Akbar’ during a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris attacks. Allowing for the yobbishness of football fans worldwide and a long history of antagonism between Greek and Turk it still shows how little sympathy the west can expect from … [Read on]
“The crime and folly of the court of Ravenna were expiated, a third time, by the calamities of Rome. The king of the Goths, who no longer dissembled his appetite for plunder and revenge, appeared in arms, under the walls of the capital ; and the trembling senate, without any hopes of relief, prepared by a desperate resistance, to delay … [Read on]
Copyright © The Salisbury Review 2019. All rights reserved.