Louise Perry

1 month ago | becomingnoble.substack.com | Johann Kurtz |Chris Williamson |Louise Perry |Lyman Stone

Last week I offered a brief five-century history of marriage to explain the accelerating bifurcation of relationships into those which are highly generative and those which are never produce children (‘Don’t pay people to get married’). One aside in that piece which people seemed to enjoy was an explanation for the odd reason that women now give for not pair-bonding: …the most common explanation that women offer if you ask why they’re not getting married: ‘the men are awful and unworthy’.

1 month ago | connortomlinson.substack.com | Connor Tomlinson |Louise Perry |Alex Phillips

In August 2023, I helped GB News break a story: The UK’s Home Office were aware of Instagram and TikTok accounts run by illegal immigrant trafficking gangs, marketing their services to North African men in Algeria and Morocco, and presenting videos of British women on nights out, filmed in secret, in states of drunkenness and undress, as the waiting and willing spoils of conquest.

Jan 10, 2025 | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. A tweet from an anonymous British twitter user:The left pretending there’s ‘always been coverage’ of the scandal is particularly sick. The Charlene Downes case would have been forgotten if it wasn’t spammed on 4chan as an infographic for years on end. Anons preserved information like medieval monks copying transcripts. He’s referring, of course, to Rotherham.

Nov 24, 2024 | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. In 2003, the philosopher Adam Swift – founder of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Oxford, now Professor of Political Theory at UCL – published a book titled How Not to be a Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent. I read it as a student, long before I had my own children, and at the time I found the thesis quite persuasive.

Nov 18, 2024 | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of this essay—Can modernity survive for much longer?—I want to start with a small one: Will the recent change of government make a difference to the people of Britain? The recently departed Conservative government was sunk partly by a set of challenges that will be familiar to anyone in a high-income country—or, increasingly, a middle-income one.