Published Works
Rising Pressure: Immigration, Population Density and the Problems of Overcrowding
We are a small, overcrowded country and should see the decline in our birth rate, at a time when people are working later in their lives, as an opportunity to alleviate overcrowding. Today’s unprecedented influx of migrants may provide short-term economic benefits but, even leaving aside all issues of assimilation, the shear numbers represent a serious problem for our housing, infrastructure and quality of life. Britain has a great deal to offer to help make a better world. But continuing to provide homes and jobs for further large numbers of incomers on our overcrowded island, is not the best way to help our country or the wider World. [click here for more]
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Most arts students will be worse off as a result of pursuing a university education, according to a new paper by Julian Brazier, published by the Cornerstone Group of Conservative MPs. About a half of all university entrants drop out, become unemployed or go into jobs for which a degree is not the norm, it reveals. Instead of expanding higher education still further and taking in yet more students who will suffer financially from taking a degree, Ministers should target spending on reversing the decline in the quantity and quality of maths and engineering courses. Rapid remedial action is needed to halt a "pitiful collapse" in maths teaching in schools and the closures of university engineering , physics and chemistry departments. [click here for more]
Who Will Defend The Defenders?
The Wall Street Journal called 'Not Fit To Fight' "a must read". In the book, which he co authored, Julian Brazier comments on how the ignorance of Parliament and the Judiciary undermines the military ethos. [click here for more]
Truly A Man For All Seasons
Julian Brazier portrays the patron saint of politicians, Sir Thomas More, in the Catholic Universe [click here for more]
A Dinosaur State In Formation
Writing in the magazine of La Trobe Politics Society, Melbourne, Julian Brazier writes: Stop anyone in the street and ask the question: an organization has its own currency, its own passport, its own parliament, its own civil service, a common immigration system and is introducing a common legal system - what is it? The answer must surely be "a country". Yet this description fits exactly the European Union — or rather the core of the European Union, as Britain and some of the smaller members are not yet part of the single currency or the common immigration system. This article poses three related questions: just where is the EU headed in general? What, more specifically, does the latest initiative the European Strategic Defence Identity — imply? And thirdly, how should Britain relate to the EU and to its traditional friends around the World? [click here for more]
Did America's Civil War Originate in England's?
In a review essay published in Civil War Book Review Magazine Julian Brazier comments on Kevin Phillips' book "The Cousins' Wars". "Phillips gives a remarkable account of the evolution of today's dominant power bloc and culture, the Anglo-American one, whose language is the international tongue of commerce, computers, and air travel...[and] ...the three principal conflicts within that culture which, he argues, largely shaped it: the English and U.S. Civil Wars and the American Revolution." None-the-less Julian Brazier is critical of Phillips' pro-Roundhead/Union bias commenting "For Phillips human motivation is about ideology and economics. He has little use for the organic institutions, arguably the best in the world, developed in Saxon and Medieval England. Phillips does not pause to ask what part the Crown, which he obviously despises, played in stiffening British morale and in attracting gallant volunteers from around the Empire. Churchill believed that the Crown played a vital part in the lonely British stand against Hitler." [click here for more]
Cassandra and the Victorians
In a review The London Times commented on Julian Brazier's Bow Group pamphlet on social disintegration "Julian Brazier rejects the libertarian ideas of the New Right and New Left and maintains that the self-help ethos of Disraeli and Burke offers the best hope...". Julian Brazier compares the current divisions and inequalities in society to those in the Victorian era. He proposes we apply some of the solutions put forward by statesmen like Disraeli, to solve the lack of community spirit prevalent today. Julian argues the need to "…stress the vital role of intermediate organisations, in building a nation; the church, the town, the factory and the school." He firmly believes in the positive outcome from "...giving each individual that vital ingredient of social harmony, a sense of membership." [click here for more]
Rolling back excessive health and safety legislation will ensure youngsters don't miss out on sporting and adventurous activities
Last year, ConservativeHome carried an article of mine attacking a court decision which penalised a family for an accident at a children's party involving a bouncy castle. This week we have heard that Bear Grylls, the explorer and survivalist, has taken over as Chief Scout. How are these two matters related? [click here for more]