Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin was Conservative MP for West Dorset 1997-2019
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud