Conservatism
Why are Tories unrepresentative of their voters?
The candidate selection office may offer some clues
Liberals aren’t their own worst enemies
Why do so many Western liberals behave as if they agree with Putin’s critique of Western liberalism?
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
Letter from Washington: Conservatism’s entente discordiale
America’s religious right questions the deals it has cut
Why do conservatives think they are winning?
The right needs to understand that progressive intolerance is a strength, not a weakness
The future of the Conservative Party
John Bowers reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
Who’s a conservative?
A vigorous debate is under way about the future of the American right — and it is a mistake to question its survival
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Dismantle the HR state
Opaque standards committees are putting British public life in a stranglehold
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Equality for some
Labour’s is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
