Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation
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'It is uplifting to see a frontline politician setting out a vision of such scope and ideological coherence ... persuasively argued and elegant to read' Sunday Times
A 2023 Book of the Year in Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph - now with a new and updated Foreword written by the author
Contemporary conservatism can easily be seen as a hollowed-out creed. Combining heartless free-market individualism with an unthinking social liberalism - or else simple authoritarian populism - it offers little to those whose sense of meaning is securely rooted in their families, communities and country.
In Covenant, Danny Kruger, one of parliament's leading thinkers, argues that we must restore the sources of virtue and belonging that underpin the good life. Our urgent task is to repair the covenantal relationships of love and partnership that our families, local communities and ultimately our country depend on. We must, he contends, go beyond a politics based purely on individual autonomy, social atomisation and self-worship. By examining the most fundamental questions of love, sex, life and death, ranging from marriage to assisted dying, Kruger charts a course towards a conservatism that can respond humanely and wisely to the social, environmental and economic crises that face us.
This riposte to both liberal orthodoxy and the authoritarian right is unmissable for anyone interested in British politics. It's a key contribution to the debate on how the Conservative Party can respond to its current crisis.
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Beautifully written and accessible, Covenant turns political theory into practical policy' - Daily TelegraphThis admirably short and elegant book is a voice worth hearing' - The Times'Covenant is both persuasively argued and elegant to read' - Sunday Times'A powerful and urgent critique of the ruling liberalism, this passionate manifesto for a new kind of conservatism will engage readers on every part of the political spectrum''We live in an age of paradoxes: of sexual liberation alongside unprecedented loneliness; of growing wealth paired with great deprivation; of political chaos and social stagnation. What is happening to the West? In this brilliant book, Danny Kruger offers an answer and charts a path out of this morass. Covenant takes on difficult topics with honesty and charm. Though a book about the UK, it has lessons for all of us who love the civilIzation built by our ancestors'What a rare pleasure to read a book by a politician that avoids the usual dead, bureaucratic, policy prose and asks fundamental questions about how to live and how to organise society that transcends the liberal individualism-cum-utilitarianism of mainstream politics. A post-liberal, Scrutonian manifesto for conservatives' - The Road to Somewhere'In an age when most self-identified "conservatives" are little more than disaster capitalists with a side order of culture war, Danny Kruger stands out. This book shows why: Kruger possesses not only a thorough grasp of the conservative tradition, but also an appropriate realism about present-day challenges and the need not just to conserve but also to rebuild' - Feminism Against Progress
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