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No. 92, Michaelmas 2003

Building the Common Good in Redbridge by Iain Duncan Smith, MP [Conservative Social Policy]
The Waltz of the Four Matildas, or, Whatever Happened to the House of Wessex? by Barrie Williams [the descendants of England’s Saxon Kings]
The Land of Egypt by Muriel Smith [Egypt as a subject for literature]
An Error of Anatomy by Simon Heans [feminism, abortion, contraception and the ordination of women]


No. 91, SS. Peter & Paul 2003

Patients’ Protection Bill by Baroness Knight of Collingtree, DBE
Nostradamus and the Tragedy of Scotland by Muriel Smith [Scotland: Alexander III to James VI]
London Property Notes by Roy Kerridge
Encounters with Islam ― 4: Englishmen (and Women) in Islam by Barrie Williams
The Federal Europe Project by J. Alan Smith


No. 90, Feast of the Annunciation 2003

The Union of the Crowns by J. Alan Smith [English and Scottish Crowns in 1603]
Encounters with Islam - 3. Turks, Infidels, and Heretics by Barrie Williams
The Lesson of Stephen Lawrence by Roy Kerridge [‘black on black’ violence]
The Rise of the Motor by Muriel Smith [the automobile in literature]
An Attack on the People by Douglas A. Sylva [the UN and forced abortions]


No. 89, Christmas 2002

Talking of Tolkien … by Muriel Smith
Encounters with Islam ― 2. Cross v. Crescent: Jihad v. Crusade by Barrie Williams
The Johannesburg Summit by Peter Smith [the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002]
Mind Your Language! by Andrew McWhirter [changes in English]
Our Fellow Subjects by J. Alan Smith [a review of Subjects of the Queen by Roy Kerridge]


No. 88, Michaelmas 2002

Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram – A Pastoral Example for Our Times by Antony Bell
Encounters with Islam – 1. The Rise of the Arab Empire by Barrie Williams
Ulster’s Britons Betrayed by Allan Robertson [a review of The Betrayal of British Ulster by Andrew Hunter, MP]
Nazi vs. Christian Medical Ethics by Haven Bradford Gow
A Diverted Revolutionary by Roy Kerridge [a review of Give the Anarchist a Cigarette by Mick Farren]
Hunting in Couples by Muriel Smith [literary collaborations]


No. 87, SS. Peter & Paul 2002

The Homeless by Andrew Selous, MP [maiden speech during the debate on the Homelessness Bill]
The United Kingdom’s Pro-Life Sanctuary by J. Alan Smith [a review of SPUC’s book, A way of life: Affirming a pro-life culture in Northern Ireland]
Not Quite a Nation? by Barrie Williams [a discourse on the history of medieval Wales, based on Edith Pargiter’s The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet]
Nostradamus and the Tragedy of Poland by Muriel Smith [the predictions of Nostradamus and the elective monarchy of Poland]
Notebook by Roy Kerridge


No. 86, Easter 2002

Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queen by J. Alan Smith [review of Church, State and Establishment. by Paul Avis and GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: The Spiritual Dimension of Monarchy by Ian Bradley]
Universities Revisited by Duke Maskell [a reply to ‘Universities for All?’ by Barrie Williams in No. 84, Michaelmas 2001]
Restoration Birdwatcher by Muriel Smith [Sir John Werden (1640-1716) and a visit to Bass Rock in 1681]
Lorna Doone: A Tory Romance? by Barrie Williams
Bush Declares National Sanctity of Human Life Day
Notebook by Roy Kerridge


No. 85, Christmas 2001

Jane Austen and the Comic Muse by Barrie Williams
A Question of Culture not Race by Antony Bell
Beginnings by Muriel Smith [literary styles]
The Self-Invented Trio by Roy Kerridge [three teenage groups]
A Job for the Lords by J. Alan Smith [the need for a second chamber]



No. 84, Michaelmas 2001

King James the Last by Muriel Smith [James II & VII who died on 16 September 1701]
One Nation Once Again by Paul Goodman, MP
Roy Kerridge’s Notebook
Universities for All? by Barrie Williams [a review of The New Idea of a University by Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson]
The Country Interest by J. Alan Smith [the future of agriculture, with particular reference to foot & mouth disease]


No. 83, SS.Peter & Paul 2001

Christian and Conservative by J. Alan Smith [a review of Conservatism and Christianity by Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach]
The Atomic Bombings of Japan: Were They Morally Right? by Haven Bradford Gow
The Food of Love? by Barrie Williams [Music]
Coventry by Roy Kerridge


No. 82, Easter 2001

Charles Burford Goodhart: 1919-2000 by Elspeth Chowdharay-Best
Cartoons at Crosthwaite (Lake District) by Roy Kerridge
The Theology of the Brontës by Barrie Williams
The Election That Dare Not Speak Its Name by J. Alan Smith [a preview of the 2001 general election]


No. 81, Christmas 2000

Young England Revisited by Barrie Williams
The Call of Wales by Stuart Millson
The Federalist Shapeshifters by J. Alan Smith [the case against a federal Europe]
Dickens of a State by Roy Kerridge [Charles Dickens]
A Poet Exhumed by Muriel Smith [Jane Barker, c. 1652 – 1732]


No. 80, Michaelmas 2000

Charles I: Man of His Century? by Barrie Williams
Recurring Errors by Roy Kerridge [errors that recur throughout history]
The Body Snatchers by J. Alan Smith [human cloning]
The Faithful Servants by Muriel Smith [Elliotts, Southcotts, and Carterets: servants to James II]


No. 79, SS. Peter & Paul 2000

George Chowdharay-Best: 1935-2000
A Tale of Two Poets by Barrie Williams [William Wordsworth and John Keble]
‘Paris is Civilization’ by Roy Kerridge
‘What Bloody Man is That?’ - The Sayings of Al Gore
Royalist Resistance by Muriel Smith [a review of FOR ALTAR AND THRONE: The Rising in the Vendée by Michael Davies]


No. 78, Easter 2000

A Neglected Masterpiece by Barrie Williams [thoughts on The Excursion by William Wordsworth]
Black America, North and South by Roy Kerridge
Research Projects by Muriel Smith [differing attitudes to research on human remains, with particular reference to the massacre of Jews in York in 1190]
A Voice from the Other Side by J. Alan Smith [a review of Bringing Home the Revolution: The case for a British Republic by Jonathan Freedland]


No. 77, Christmas 1999

Christians and the Pro-Life Battle by Ian Brown [the need for Christians to resist modernism and post-modernism]
Revolution All Round by Muriel Smith [the 1688 revolution in Siam]
A Secondary Sovereignty by Dewi Hopkins [government by people, not ‘The People’, under God and King]
Memories of the War by Roy Kerridge
A Concession Too Far by J. Alan Smith [an attack on the Patten Report to abolish the RUC]


No. 76, Michaelmas 1999

The Work Must Go On … by Chris Walsh [the continuing role of SPUC]
Single Parent Problems by Roy Kerridge
A Dame from New Zealand by Muriel Smith [Dame Whina Cooper]
Remission of Third-World Debt by C.B. Goodhart
Delenda est Anglia! by J. Alan Smith [a review of The Death of Britain? by John Redwood, MP and The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens]


No. 75, SS. Peter & Paul 1999

A Disabled Person’s Perspective on Pre-Natal Screening by Alison Davis
Devolution – Tudor Style by Barrie Williams
Christendom by Roy Kerridge [Jewish and Islamic attitudes to Christians]
Inter-Community Conflict by J. Alan Smith [touches on anti-semitism and ‘Isalamophobia’]


No. 74, Easter 1999

Dr Arnold’s Granddaughter by Muriel Smith [Mrs Humphry Ward]
Thoughts for Restorationtide by Barrie Williams [Psalms selected for Restoration services]
Kentish Journey by Stuart Millson
In The Queue by Roy Kerridge [a visit to a DSS office]
Abortion and the Incarnation by Margaret White [a review of Sanity, Security, Sanctuary by Ann Bell]
Too Many of Them? by J. Alan Smith [a review of Surplus Population and the Poor Law Bill: a Comedy in Three Acts by William Cobbett]



No. 73, Christmas 1998

Remission of Third World Debt by William Cash, MP
Borrowdale Fells by Roy Kerridge
A Literary Bishop by Muriel Smith [Antoine Godeau, 1605-72, Bishop of Grasse and Vence]
The Lord is King by Paul S. Lansley [a sermon for the Feast of King Charles the Martyr]
Black Roots by J. Alan Smith [a review of The Story of Black History by Roy Kerridge]


No. 72, Michaelmas 1998

Euthanasia by Nicholas R. Winterton, MP
A Writer Inadequately Remembered by Muriel Smith [Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, 1808-89]
Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors by Dewi Hopkins [Social Credit and the National Dividend]
The Bahama Brass Band by Roy Kerridge


No. 71, SS. Peter & Paul 1998

So, Farewell then, Akihito… by J. Alan Smith [Japan’s unresolved wartime atrocities]
The Corsican by Muriel Smith [Napoleon Bonaparte]
A Local Hero by Barrie Williams [Robert Stephenson, railway pioneer and MP]
Aborting Gays, and Others by C.B. Goodhart
Lowering the Age of Consent – A Step Too Far by Nicholas R. Winterton, MP


No. 70, Easter 1998

The Way Back by J. Alan Smith [advice for the Conservative Party after the 1997 general election]
Christian and Conservative by George Chowdharay-Best
The French Revolution and the French Language by Muriel Smith
A Visit to Oxford by Roy Kerridge
A Church Triumphant by Patrick J. Laycock [The rebuilding of Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Moscow]


No. 69, Christmas 1994

Designed to Leak by Dewi Hopkins [a poem about the Channel Tunnel]
“To Play the King” by Leslie Fielding, KCMG [an address on King Charles the Martyr]
Talking of Mousetraps by Muriel Smith [a discourse on morality based on The Mousetrap]
Taking the Waters by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Bath]
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? by J. Alan Smith [humans and other creatures]
Freud or Fraud? by Have Bradford Gow [a review of Freud’s War with Religion by Jack Wright, Jr]



No. 68, Michaelmas 1994

A National Party or Nothing by J. Alan Smith [the need to remake the Conservative Party]
The Society of King Charles the Martyr – A Hundred Years On by Barrie Williams
The Early Christian Community and Abortion by Haven Bradford Gow
Philippe de Villiers [news on the leader of L’Autre Europe]
Notre Patrie par François-Athanase Charette de La Contrie [a poem by one of the leaders of the Royal Catholic Army of the Vendée (1763-1796)]
Halloween, Halloween! by Roy Kerridge


No. 67, SS. Peter & Paul 1994

Confessions of an American Tory by Charles A. Coulombe
A Media Campaign of the Seventeen-Sixties by Muriel Smith [a panic over Papists]
A Nice Little Earner by J. Alan Smith [the founding of the Bank of England]
The Making of the Prime Minister by Roy Kerridge [a fictional account of the origins of John Major]


No. 66, Easter 1994

Oh! We Don’t Want to Lose You… by J. Alan Smith [an attack on the Northern Ireland Joint Declaration of John Major and Albert Reynolds]
Lend-Lease by George Chowdharay-Best
On the Immortality of the Soul by Haven Bradford Gow
The Seventy Six Bus by Roy Kerridge [a journey from Tottenham to Dalston]
Daniel O’Connell’s Schooldays by Muriel Smith


No. 65, Christmas 1993

Saint Valentine’s Eve by Muriel Smith [the Glencoe Massacre]
Vietnamese New Year by Roy Kerridge [the Vietnamese community in London]
Voting with Your Feet by Barrie Williams [Buckingham Palace open to the public]
Jingoism Revisited by George Chowharay-Best [a comment on J. Alan Smith’s article in No. 63, SS. Peter & Paul 1993]
A Categorical Imperative by J. Alan Smith [a review of Love Your Unborn Neighbour produced by SPUC Evangelicals]


No. 64, Michaelmas 1993

Portrait of a Victim by Muriel Smith [Marie-Antoinette]
A Halt at Haltwhistle by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Haltwhistle, Northumberland]
Euthanasia by Alison Davis
Taxation by J. Alan Smith



No. 63, SS. Peter & Paul 1993

The War in the Vendée by Muriel Smith [French resistance to the Revolution]
The Home County Hitch-Hiker by Roy Kerridge [travelling in Buckinghamshire]
The Clintonistas [definitions of terms used by the Clinton administration]
Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Views on Abortion by Haven Bradford Gow
Vigo Auguste Demant by Geoffrey Edwards
The Case for Jingoism by J. Alan Smith [defending Jingoism as defined by the original song]


No. 62, Easter 1993

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford by Muriel Smith
Towards a Realignment by J. Alan Smith [a sympathetic response to Paul Johnson’s call for a realignment to challenge the Con-Lab consensus on Europe]
Milk and Sugar, Lady Susan? by Barrie Williams [the role of tea in British culture]
Too Much of a Good Thing by David White [the pathogenesis of Down’s Syndrome]
Beyond All Bounds by Roy Kerridge [a visit to the London suburb of Bounds Green]
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Fondouk by Elspeth Chowdharay-Best
[a memorial of Glyn Rhys-Williams]


No. 61, Christmas 1992

Louis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre by Muriel Smith [Louis XVI]
The Tolkien Centenary Conference by Charles A. Coulombe
Dartmoor Days by Roy Kerridge [holiday visits to Dartmoor]
Who for Us Men … by Dave Parry [‘Man’ in modern liturgical translations]
Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi by C. Denys Favre [a review of REVOLUTION or RECONCILIATION?: The Struggle in the Church in South Africa by Rachel Tingle]
Vive La Pologne Libre! by George Chowharay-Best [a review of When the Summer Ended by Joanna Bogle and Cecylia Wolkowinska]
Francis John Smith: 1910-42 by J. Alan Smith [a memorial of the Editor’s father]


No. 60, Michaelmas 1992

Religious Education by Olga Maitland, MP
The Social Welfare of the People by J. Alan Smith
Liberation Theology by Haven Bradford Gow
Citizen Chauvelin by Muriel Smith
Testimony Time by Roy Kerridge [the Jamaican congregation of a Northern chapel]


No. 59, SS. Peter & Paul 1992

The Glorious Year by Muriel Smith [Spain, 1492: the liberation of Granada and Christopher Columbus]
Philosophical Radicalism or Tory Radicalism? by Barrie Williams [Michael Sadler and Richard Oastler]
A Light in the West by J. Alan Smith [a review of Everyman Today Call Rome and The White Cockade by Charles A. Coulombe]
Faith in the Film Industry by Roy Kerridge [writing dialogue for Adam Faith]


No. 58, Feast of the Annunciation 1992

The General Election and Pro-Life Issues by Ken Hargreaves
Always Keep A-Hold of Nurse by J. Alan Smith [a preview of the 1992 general election]
Natural Law by George Chowdharay-Best [a comment on ‘The Traditionalist Movement’ by J. Alan Smith in No. 56, Michaelmas 1991]
In the Deep South by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Natchez, Mississippi]
The Man Who Knew Chesterton by Anthony Cooney [an obituary of H.W.J. Edwards]
The Sacrifice of the Fish by J. Enoch Powell [the text of an Address, given on Oak Apple Day, 1991]


No. 57, Christmas 1991

7 December 1941 – A Government Remembers [text of a speech given by President George Bush in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1991]
Without a Parable by Dewi Hopkins [the reality of Hell]
A Tory Life by George Chowdharay-Best [a review of Staying Power by Peter Walker]
Canny Newcassel by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Newcastle and Northumberland]
Sunday, Sweet Sunday by J. Alan Smith [Sunday trading]


No. 56, Michaelmas 1991

A wedding in Cyprus by Muriel Smith [Richard I and Berengaria]
Margate: On Sea But Under Wraps by Barrie Williams
A Time of Crisis by Roy Kerridge [comics and art colleges]
Papal Letter to Roman Catholic Bishops [19 May 1991: threats to human life]
The Traditionalist Movement by J. Alan Smith [a manifesto for tradiitonalists]


No. 55, SS. Peter & Paul 1991

Defence of the Union by William Ross, MP
Antidisestablishmentarianism by J. Alan Smith
Them and Us by George Martelli [Britain and continental Europe]
Pentecostal Rage by Roy Kerridge [a revivalist meeting in London]
The Birmingham Eleven by Muriel Smith [an anti-revolutionary riot in 1791]
The Secular Humanism-Abortion Nexus by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 54, Easter 1991


Brazil 1993 by Armando Alexandre dos Santos [an attempt to restore an Emperor]
What About the Workers? by J. Alan Smith [a review of Rerum Novarum (The Worker’s Charter), the papal encyclical of 1891]
Fostering Apartheid by Roy Kerridge [racialism in the fostering of children]
A Town in Provence by Muriel Smith [the Jewish community in Carpentras]



No. 53, Christmas 1990

Ian Gow by Lisl Biggs-Davison [an obituary of Ian Gow, MP, murdered on 30 July 1990]
Her Majesty’s New First Minister by J. Alan Smith [thoughts on the appointment of John Major as Prime Minister]
On B.F. Skinner and Human Dignity by Haven Bradford Gow [behaviourism]
Language and Archaeology by George Chowdharay-Best [Indo-European origins]
Happy New Year by Roy Kerridge [a New Year in Trafalgar Square]
Aquileia 340 AD by Muriel Smith [Emperor Constantine and his sons]


No. 52, Michaelmas 1990

My Continent, ’Tis of Thee by J. Alan Smith [an attack on the idea of a federal Europe]
Içi On Parle Anglais by George Chowdharay-Best [a review of The Survival of English: Essays in the Criticism of Language by Ian Robinson]
East is East, and West is West by Robert E. Anderson [a review of Orthodoxy and the Conversion of England by the Revd Derwas J. Chitty]
Triumph and Disaster by Muriel Smith [Alphonse de Lamartine: 1790-1869]
The Highland Wildlife Park by Roy Kerridge
Feminism and Abortion by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 51, SS. Peter & Paul 1990

Abortion and Conscience by Ken Hargreaves, MP
Bring Back the Devil by Roy Kerridge [the existence of evil]
Counties: Unappreciated Heritage by Father Francis [our ancient counties]
The Cult of Hiroshima Day by J. Alan Smith [the bombing of Hiroshima in its proper context]


No. 50, Easter 1990

The Case for Monarchy by Robert F.J. Parsons
The Archbishop Sells the Human Spirit Down the River by David Holbrook [an attack on the then Archbishop of York, Dr Hapgood, for his speech on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill]
Going to St Ives by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Cornwall]
The Decline of Civility by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 49, Christmas 1989

Abortion: Some Questions to the Minister by Ann Widdecombe, MP
Caroline Rollcall by Muriel Smith [the descendants of Charles I in the legitimate line]
Ordeal by Press Council by Roy Kerridge [the author is taken to the Press Council]
The Source of Human Rights is God by Haven Bradford Gow
A Candidate for Canonization by J. Alan Smith [John I of France]



No. 48, Michaelmas 1989

Christianity and Bio-Medical Research by Ann M. Bell
Three Archbishops by Muriel Smith [three 19th century Archbishops of Paris were murdered]
Ukrainians in Bradford by Roy Kerridge
Angels on Pinheads by J. Alan Smith [Thomist Angelology]
A Fine and Private Place by George Chowdharay-Best [a review of Who Lies Where? a guide to the resting places of the famous by Joanna Bogle]


No. 47, SS. Peter & Paul 1989

The Role of a Government Backbencher by Nicholas Winterton, MP
“I am Sorry for Your Lordship” by Muriel Smith [John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee]
After Hirohito by J. Alan Smith [thoughts on Japan after the death of Emperor Hirohito]
From My Notebook by Roy Kerridge [entertaining West Africans; Whitby]
Post-Abortion Syndrome by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 46, Easter 1989

The Case for Family Allowances by Brandon Rhys Williams
Mr Gorbachev and Monsieur de Maistre by Muriel Smith [a comparison of the French Revoliutionaries and the Soviet Union]
Aristotle’s Highest Good by Haven Bradford Gow [a review of ON MORAL CHARACTER: A Practical Guide to Aristotle’s Virtues and Vices by Br Jody Palmour]
The Deadly Effects of the Living Will by Rita L. Marker
Parliamentary Procedures Need Reforming by Ann Winterton, MP
Way Down Yonder … by J. Alan Smith [a review of In the Deep South by Roy Kerridge]


No. 45, Christmas 1988

Chevalier Sans Peur Et Sans Reproche by J. Alan Smith [an obituary of Sir John Biggs-Davison]
King Charles the Martyr by J. Enoch Powell
Class Creating for Beginners by Roy Kerridge [attempts to create a black middle class]
Abortion and George Orwell’s 1984 by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 44, Michaelmas 1988

T.S. Eliot: His Journey from Private “Waste Land” to Christianity by .Haven Bradford Gow
Out of the Fish’s Mouth – A Meditation at Harvest Time by Dewi Hopkins [miracles and the money system]
The Red Dragon Asleep: 1688 and Wales by Barrie Williams



No. 43, SS. Peter & Paul 1988

Trinity Sunday 1688 by Muriel Smith [James III and VIII]
Honour to God by John Biggs-Davison, MP [liturgy and language]
The Drummond School Affair Revisited by Roy Kerridge [Ray Honeyford and Drummond School, Bradford]
Britain and Ireland by J. Alan Smith [a brief alternative history from 1727 onwards]
Bitter Harvest by Tony Stewart [organs taken from aborted babies]


No. 42, Easter 1988

The Cardinal King by Muriel Smith [Henry IX]
The Abortion (Amendment) Bill by Sir Bernard Braine, MP
Baker and the Official Aim by Roy Kerridge [Education and the need to outdo Germany and Japan]
Keeping the Kingdom United by Tony Stewart [the need to defeat gangsterism in Northern Ireland]


No. 41, Christmas 1987

The White Rose Withering by Muriel Smith [Charles III]
The Rich Man in His Castle by J. Alan Smith [the Community Charge aka the Poll Tax]
Legislation and Its Defects by George Chowdharay-Best [the dangerous volume of legislation]
Ideas to Conserve by Haven Bradford Gow [a review of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk]


No. 40, Michaelmas 1987

Charles of Austria by Joanna Bogle [the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary]
A Promise to Fulfil by Christopher Whitehouse [the protection of children before birth]
Christian and Conservative by Christopher Gillibrand
Altar, Throne, and Cottage by J. Alan Smith [a review of Young England by Sir Richard Faber]
Castles and Pseudo-Castles of Leicestershire by Roy Kerridge


No. 39, SS. Peter & Paul 1987

Hugh, by the Grace of God … by Muriel Smith [Hugh Capet, King of France, and his descendants]
Tory – Conservative and Radical by John Biggs-Davison, MP [the text of his Adoption Speech at the 1987 General Election]
Consequences by J. Alan Smith [physical and psychological consequences of abortion]
Castles at Newport by Roy Kerridge [a visit to Monmouthshire]



No. 38, Easter 1987

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament by John Biggs-Davison, MP
The Theory of Evolution by George Chowdharay-Best
Late Abortions – the Case for Action by Christopher Whitehouse
1688 And All That by J. Alan Smith [a review of Royal Stuart Papers XXVIII: The Role of Jacobitism in the Modern World by Robert F.J. Parsons]


No. 37, Christmas 1986

Human Vivisection by Ken Hargreaves, MP [embryo experimentation]
The ’Fifties and the ’Sixties Remembered by Roy Kerridge
Sacred and Secular by J. Alan Smith [a review of A Book of Feasts and Seasons by Joanna Bogle]
Sequence for the Feast of King Charles the Martyr [the Latin text of the Sequence with a metrical English translation]


No. 36, Michaelmas 1986

Notes Towards a Labour Manifesto by J. Alan Smith [notes foradvice that was never requested]
Next Year in St Petersburg! by John Biggs-Davison, MP [speech to a Dinner of the Russian Monarchist League]
A Damnable Agreement by Elspeth Chowdharay-Best [the Anglo-Irish Agreement]
Feminist Theology by Joanna Bogle
Courtesy and Kindness – Means to Racial Harmony by Haven Bradford Gow


No. 35, SS. Peter & Paul 1986

Sir Victor Raikes, KBE: 1901-1986 [an obituary]
Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Muriel Smith
Roundheads and Cavaliers by Roy Kerridge [a re-enactment of the Battle of Edgehill]
Mr Kremlin’s Northern Ireland Policy by J. Alan Smith [false assumptions about Northern Ireland]


No. 34, Easter 1986

Spanish Relations by Muriel Smith [Anglo-Spanish Royal Marriages]
Asking the Right Questions? by Ian Henderson [liberal errors in the Church of England]
A New Approach to the Family by Robert Whelan [the Conservative Family Campaign]
A Job for the Rates? by J. Alan Smith [a review of the Green Paper, Paying for Local Government]



No. 33, Christmas 1985

The State Services by Robin Davies [the State Services in the Book of Common Prayer, 1662-1859]
Not So Much a Crime as a Blunder by John Biggs-Davison, MP [the Anglo-Irish Agreement]
The Crusade of Victoria Gillick by J. Alan Smith [the campaign against the provision of contraceptives to under-age girls without parental consent]


No. 32, Michaelmas 1985

Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu by Muriel Smith
Warnock Discredited by J. Enoch Powell, MP [embryo experimentation]
Thoughts on a Marxist Skinhead by Roy Kerridge
Catholic and Unionist by J. Alan Smith [a review of The Cross of St Patrick – The Catholic Unionist Tradition in Ireland by John Biggs-Davison, MP and George Chowdharay-Best]


No. 31, SS. Peter & Paul 1985

Election of Bishops by George Chowdharay-Best
The Human Rights Society by Jennifer Murray [a group against euthanasia]
The Falklands: Where Honour and Interest Coincide by John Biggs-Davison, MP
The Dialect of the Tribe by J. Alan Smith [misuse of language by abortionists]


No. 30, Easter 1985

James II & VII by M. Monica Beardsworth
Balancing the Government’s Books by David Keefe
Tory Social Policy by J. Alan Smith [taxation and social benefits]
Abortion and the Abuse of Language by Haven Bradford Gow
An Incident of The Terror by Muriel Smith [the unborn child respected even during the Reign of Terror]


No. 29, Christmas 1984

King Charles II – 1630-1685 by M. Monica Beardsworth
“The Most Sensible Man” by Ian Crowther [Dr Samuel Johnson]
The Uninhibited Thoughts of a Day-Old Foetus by Oliver Smedley
The Spirit of Christmas Present by J. Alan Smith [the differences between the secular and liturgical calendars]


No. 28, Michaelmas 1984

Her Majesty, Queen of Canada by John Biggs-Davison, MP [the patriation of the Canadian Constitution]
Whither, not Wither, Local Government? by Bernard Brook-Partridge, GLC [the Greater London Council]
An Evening with Luis by Ulick Loring [Luis Palau, the Argentinian evangelist]
The Warnock Report by J. Alan Smith [embryo experimentation]


No. 27, SS. Peter & Paul 1984

Eternal Hope by Victor Raikes [a poem]
A Tory View of Ireland by John Biggs-Davison, MP [the text of a speech to the New Ireland Forum]
A Pro-Life Brief by J. Alan Smith [a review of The ZERO People – Essays on Life edited by Jeff Lane Hensley]
Legitimism and the New Left by Muriel Smith [a review of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln]


No. 26, Feast of the Annunciation 1984

The Fable of the Dog by Muriel Smith [a poem based on Xenophon’s Memorabilia II vii]
The Humanity of the Unborn Jesus by J. Alan Smith
What are You Doing About It? by Bernard Brook-Partridge, GLC [the need to defend civilization]
The Dismal Science by David Keefe [a review of Making Sense of the Economy by Dominick Harrod and Monetary Theory and Practice – The UK Experience by C.A.E. Goodhart]
Hope for Russia by George Miller [the Association for a Free Russia]


No. 25, Christmas 1983

News from the East by Paul S. Lansley [a review of RISEN INDEED. Lessons in Faith from the USSR by Michael Bordeaux]
St Charles the Martyr by Norman St. John Stevas, MP
It’s a Great Day for the Irish! by J. Alan Smith [the incorporation of legislation against abortion into the Constitution of the Irish Republic]
Capital Taxation by George Chowdharay-Best [the case against the Capital Transfer Tax and the Capital Gains Tax]
Christians and Pacifism by T.S. Eliot


No.24, Michaelmas 1983

A Sound Conservative Government by J. Alan Smith [prospects for the Conservative Government after the General Election of 1983]
How I Became a Conservative by Roy Kerridge
The Bottom Ten Thousand by George Chowdharay-Best [workers in the ‘poverty trap’]
Call to Humanity: Extracts from some of the Speeches at the SPUC Rally [Bernard Braine, MP, Margaret White, Alison Davis, and Malcolm Muggeridge]


No. 23, SS. Peter & Paul 1983

Roots of the Oxford Movement by Robin Davies
The Last of the Lilies by Muriel Smith [the Count of Chambord, de jure Henry V of France]
The Handicapped by J. Alan Smith
The Human Value Trust by Richard Lamerton



No. 22, Easter 1983

Dr John Linklater: An Obituary
The Case for Ship-money by J. Alan Smith [the potential need for a Conservative Government to increase taxes]
The Conversion of England: A Reflection by Ulick Loring [the reconversion of England to Christianity]
Breaking the Silence by Francis Edwards, SJ [a review of Abortion: the silent holocaust by John Powell, SJ]
Guided Tour by Peter McDonald [a review of A Tour of the Summa by Mgr Paul J. Glenn]


No. 21, Christmas 1982

The Cult of King Charles the Martyr by Barrie Williams
Why Not Test-Tube Babies? by James Morrow
Working for the Counter-revolution by J. Alan Smith [a review of Revolution and Counter-revolution by Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira]


No. 20, Michaelmas 1982

Rupert of the Rhine, 1619-1682 by M. Monica Beardsworth
Jacques Maritain by J. Alan Smith
E.B. Pusey, Defender of the Anglican Heritage by Robin Davies
Votes Are Still the Key by Alan Rabjohns [the campaign against abortion]
Supporting the Union by George Chowdharay-Best [a review of Ulster: Six British Counties by John Biggs-Davison]


No. 19, SS. Peter & Paul 1982

Unspeakable Rock Must Go! by Roy Kerridge [Rock music is taken too seriously]
People Count by J. Alan Smith [Population]
Poetic Order Revisited by Bernard Simmons [a review of Dowry: a quarterly magazine of Catholic poetry]


No. 18, Easter 1982

Unemployment by Julian Amery, MP
Pope John Paul II by George Chowdharay-Best
Saint George for Merrie May Day by Paul S. Lansley


No. 17, Christmas 1981

The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion by C.B. Goodhart
The Money Supply by J. Alan Smith
Charles the First by Jane Austen
The Execution of Charles I by Marchamont Nedham



No. 16, Michaelmas 1981

Race and Culture by J. Alan Smith
Little Children Suffer – Religious Chaos in the Classroom by Ulick Loring
The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth by Alan Lee Williams
Returning to Our Roots by Elspeth Chowdharay-Best [a review of Why Christianity Works by Mary Kenny]


No. 15, SS. Peter & Paul 1981

Dishing the Whigs by J. Alan Smith [an analysis of English history from the Reformation to the Reform Act, based on Disraeli’s Sybil, Book 1, Chapter 3]
National Apostacy Revisited by Robin Davies [Keble’s Assize Sermon of 1833]
Shades of Frankenstein by Fred Lamb [experiments on humans and animals]


No. 14, Easter 1981

Disraeli by John Biggs-Davison, MP
The Abortion Debate – The Way Ahead by Alan Rabjohns
Reviewing the Social Order by J. Alan Smith [a review of Quadragesimo Anno (The Social Order), the papal encyclical of 1931]


No. 13, Christmas 1980

The Church of England and Abortion by Geoffrey Clark
Incomes Policy by J. Alan Smith
The Society of King Charles the Martyr by Barrie Williams


No. 12, Michaelmas 1980

Towards a Christian Europe by Otto von Habsburg
The Community and the Commonwealth by John Biggs-Davison, MP
Pro Vita Europae by Achille Diegenant [pro-life activities in Europe]
Two Modest Proposals by J. Alan Smith [royal marriage to Roman Catholics and the full integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom]


No. 11, SS. Peter & Paul 1980

The Christian Approach to History by Ulick Loring
The National Union of Students by Richard D. Turnbull
The White Rose by J. Alan Smith [the White Rose as a symbol: the Yorkists; the Stuarts and Jacobites; anti-Nazi students in Hitler’s Germany; SPUC’s White Flower in defence of innocent human life]



No. 10, Easter 1980

Britain’s European Destiny by John Biggs-Davison, MP [a Europe of Nations]
An Ulster Solution by Michael Byrne [the need to unite the communities in Northern Ireland]
Free Market for the Cup! by J. Alan Smith [a solution to the problem of distributing FA Cup Final tickets]


No. 9, Christmas 1979

Charles – Our Royal Saint by Robin Davies [Charles I]
What Price ‘Progress’? by Paul Crane, SJ [Brazil]
Conservative and Unionist by J. Alan Smith [a review of Rock Firm for the Union by John Biggs-Davison, MP]
Treatment by Termination of Pregnancy by Philip R. Norris [essential differences between abortion and the medical termination of pregnancy]


No. 8, Michaelmas 1979

The Message of Dalderby Cross by J. Alan Smith [an unusual war memorial]
Christians Can Be Conservatives by John Biggs-Davison, MP
The Royal Stuart Society by Robert Parsons
The Abortion (Amendment) Bill by Elspeth Rhys-Williams


No. 7, SS. Peter & Paul 1979

The Tasks Ahead by J. Alan Smith [the tasks facing Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister]
The Monday Club by Patrick Wall, MP
Making the Womb a Tomb by Frances Zwarts [Abortion]
Pope John Paul II on Kingship by Ulick Loring [comments on the papal encyclical, Redemptor Hominis]


No. 6, Easter 1979

After the Shah by John Biggs-Davison, MP
Rhodesia: How to Beat the Bulldog by Jonathan Howarth
The Return of the Lilies by Muriel Smith [the Restoration of Louis XVIII of France]
St George for England by John Biggs-Davison, MP
Infant Baptism by Frank S. Rickards [the emergency baptism of a 12-week aborted foetus]


No. 5, Christmas 1978

Yalta and Afterwards by Victor Raikes
Education in Politics by Noel King
Roots of the Holocaust by J. Alan Smith [Malthus, laissez-faire economics, social Darwinism, revolutionary nationalism, and racial hygiene, leading to the Nazi Holocaust and eugenic abortion]
The Lord’s Anointed by Ulick Loring [a review of The Crown and the Church by Professor Roy Porter]


No. 4, Michaelmas 1978

Prag – One Year On by J. Alan Smith [a review of Prag’ s first year]
Is Liberty Lost? by John Biggs-Davison, MP [threats to Britain’s freedom]
Teenagers and the Unborn Child by Frances Zwarts


No. 3, SS. Peter & Paul 1978

On the Subject of Innocence by Elspeth Rhys-Williams [Abortion and terrorist murders]
Miss Edith Laura Urch: An Obituary by Fred Lamb
Thoughts on the Constitution by J. Alan Smith
RE Reviewed by James Makepeace [ a review of Curriculum Christianity: Crisis in the Classroom edited by Frances Tulloch]
Eastern Approaches by John Yeowell [an introduction to The South Slav Journal]
Guilty Men by John Yeowell [a review of Victims of Yalta by Count Nikolai Tolstoy]


No. 2, Easter 1978

Steve Biko by Patrick Wall, MP
Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, Bt, CBE, 1895-1977 by Victor Raikes
Denis Through the Looking Glass by David Keefe [government income and expenditure]
Values ’78 by Norman St John Stevas, MP [education and values]
A Place for the Unions by J. Alan Smith [the trades unions]
Population Control – A Threat to Human Rights by Peggy Norris


No. 1, Christmas 1977

Christianity and Monarchy by Ulick Loring
Testimony of Nijole Sadunaite [a Lithuanian political prisoner of the Soviet Union]
Some Recent Developments Concerning the Defence of the Cape Route by Ian Grieg
Commonsense on Abortion by J. Alan Smith