Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
The right to protest is not absolute
Freedom to protest should by constrained by freedom from violence
Regulation reconsidered
Regulation should be a guide, not a shackle
Righteousness and nations
The religiosity of national conservatism
The social self
Between individuals and communities
Conservatism as tradition
Living in the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be
The content of conservatism
It is not just the absence of ideology
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
