Features

End the fiction of fiscal rules

We need more honesty in Westminster policy making

The party that lost its reputation

Liz Truss is the author of the Conservatives’ woes

Who will stand up for “the West”?

An illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values

Designs for life

Four decades on, there is still much to admire in bestseller The Englishman’s Room

A playwright without heirs

The quintessential intellectual, Tom Stoppard convinces theatregoers they are far cleverer and better-read than they actually are

With friends like these …

Opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives

The case for realism

We should be pessimistic about the possibility of change

The intellectual who loved a drama

Maurice Cowling, Conservative commentator and historian, influenced thought on the right of the party

Go back to the future

Millennial “progressive” politics have worsened our country and undermined democracy itself

How can we make us all British?

Strong social norms once helped integration, but not in today’s fractured society