Conservative
Against conservative clichés
What conservatives talk about when they talk about conservatism
Who’s afraid of the 1950s?
Romanticism can be radical tool for positive change
The draining life of a young Conservative
How the two major UK parties are populist, Americanised, authoritarian entities reinforced by a system that tips the balance in their favour
The “right wing” case for the NHS
Lincoln Allison lays bare the strictly non-socialist argument for the NHS
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
Boris’s war on obesity will fail
The government’s new anti-obesity crusade will not tackle obesity, only obesity statistics
The uniquely British thing about the Labour Party
The left shouldn’t leave the people’s patriotism behind
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
