Tim Stanley

Timothy Randolph Stanley (born 1 January 1982) is a British journalist and historian. Quotes 2019–2021 Do I feel responsibility as someone who made the case publicly for Brexit? Well, I'm a Catholic, so I always feel guilty. The older I get the more guilt I feel: I actually apologised to someone who trod on my foot the other day. Do I feel humiliation as a Briton? Never, never, never. I don't confuse my government with my country, and my country muddles on, as it always does, with a sublime indifference to what the rest of the world thinks. We don’t panic. "Brexit is a mess, but I have full confidence in the British spirit", Catholic Herald (28 March 2019) The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition – political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, I argue, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are. Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West (2021), Prologue 2024–present Once upon a time, the key unit in society was the family. Today it is the individual. The only principle we can agree matters is choice, though with the death of religion and philosophy, the range of choices that we can imagine has narrowed drastically, as culture and faith have been replaced by holiday photos and video games. 18 February 2024 We are too stupid to see the Dark Ages are back The Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/18/we-are-too-stupid-to-see-the-dark-ages-are-back/ Thank you, Matthew Parris! Since Esther Rantzen bravely went public with her stage four cancer, I've been invited onto several shows to put the case against assisted suicide – and, frankly, I've failed. The argument for relief from pain is so strong. The current proposal – that two doctors sign off a self-administered poison – is so limited that it seems hard to object.But then Matthew endorses assisted dying with such enthusiasm, eloquence and boundless insanity that one's doubts are confirmed. Yes, he wrote in a weekend essay, this will be the thin end of the wedge – but good! "An age that rejects God ends up killing its old", The Telegraph (31 March 2024) For the Matthew Parris column (which was in The Times), see "We can’t afford a taboo on assisted dying", published on 29 March 2024. The Labour revolution knows no limits. Give it five years and this farm we were standing in could be collectivised, populated by strapping Soviet boys looking doe-eyed at tractors. "Journalist’s joke was filthiest thing on Keir Starmer's farm visit", The Telegraph (1 July 2024) Europe's hypocrisy is matched only by its impotence, and if Britain had any sense it would accept the Pax Trumpus and politely ask to join it. "Trump controls the world, and Britain ought to let him have it", The Telegraph (11 January 2026). But until we Europeans wean ourselves off America, not just militarily or economically but psychologically, we really cannot function without it and will always surrender. It has dominated us for a long time. "Britain must declare independence from America or it will die", The Telegraph (18 January 2026). External links Tim Stanley's Daily Telegraph articles Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Columnists from England Category:Historians from England Category:Journalists from England Category:Labour Party (UK) people Category:University of Cambridge alumni