Chris Newton
Dr Chris Newton is a military historian and a former defence policy adviser to the Conservative Party. Follow him at @drchrisnewton
The 1980s are calling
Liberal complacency has left us unprepared to face the crisis in Ukraine
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history