Conservatism
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
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
