
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
- 9 April 2013US 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”
- 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...
- 22 November 2012In 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
- 6 November 2012The 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
- 29 October 2012The death of the party conference
Why is it that a democratic institution that comes naturally to most of Europe has died out here?
- 25 October 2012Tory conference hangover: Where art thou besiegers?
Where were the reds at this years conference? I almost missed them...
- 16 October 2012Two '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
- 15 October 2012The 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
- 31 August 2012The 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
- 15 March 2012Why 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
- 7 February 2012The '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
- 10 November 2011Tory 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.
- 8 October 2011