Articles by Henry Hill

Henry Hill is the author Conservative Home's Red, White, and Blue column every Thursday and the Dilettante blog. He can be found on Twitter @Dilettante11

The importance of national history

A people cannot forever remain a people if they forget what it is that binds them together
by Henry Hill - 9 April 2013
US firearms debate: A real marauder's map?

In case you’ve missed this latest twist in the ongoing firearms ‘debate’ in the United States, an anti-gun local newspaper has compiled and published an online map of “guns in the neighbourhood”
by Henry Hill - 4 January 2013
"We are the Tory haters!"

Demonstrations and chants go hand in hand. But if you thought left-wing sing-songs were weak enough already, wait till you see them down in print...
by Henry Hill - 22 November 2012
In defence of government secrecy

In an era when governments, politicians and bankers are widely held in popular contempt, the case has to be made that they have the right, and in some cases the duty, to keep secrets from us
by Henry Hill - 6 November 2012
The Guardian's mobile sell out

Newspapers are a business, and selling out is better than not selling at all, as the Guardian might tell us
by Henry Hill - 29 October 2012
The death of the party conference

Why is it that a democratic institution that comes naturally to most of Europe has died out here?
by Henry Hill - 25 October 2012
Tory conference hangover: Where art thou besiegers?

Where were the reds at this years conference? I almost missed them...
by Henry Hill - 16 October 2012
Two 'one nation' parties to preserve a one-nation Britain

Ed Miliband’s adoption of the ‘one nation’ label, the long-standing birthright of the Conservative ‘left’, is a good thing for Tories
by Henry Hill - 15 October 2012
The NHS: Safety net or straitjacket?

Robert Colville need not fear. The NHS will not come ‘tumbling down’ so long as its beneficiaries possess freedoms that may yet be sacrificed to sustain it
by Henry Hill - 31 August 2012
The Guardian comes out for Jim Crow on inter-racial adoption

The Guardian bestowed its blessing on a giddying U-turn this week on the subject of inter-racial addoption. It's as if the progressive rulebook has been turned on its head
by Henry Hill - 15 March 2012
Why mandates matter in the fight for the union

Unionists – and especially those unionists who rest their hopes on a stable devolved settlement – must start defending the fundamental legitimacy of the British parliament
by Henry Hill - 7 February 2012
The '1 percent' don't have a monopoly on greed

The truth is we’re all greedy. Every last one of us. You don’t need to drive an expensive car, work in a glass tower or be worth millions of pounds to be self-interested
by Henry Hill - 10 November 2011
Tory Conference: the first flickers of the Unionist fightback.

This party conference demonstrated that the party leadership have finally begun to take seriously the separatist threat north of the border.
by Henry Hill - 8 October 2011