Conservative Party
The people behind the podium
A treatise on the life and mating habits of the party political activist
Inadequately in office
Are there any Tories in the Tory party?
Old Labour blues
Could the future of conservatism be on the left?
Boris in a bind
It is time for Tory MPs to do the only honourable thing
“No-fault” divorce undermines marriage
Why is the government making it easier to break up families?
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
In the public sty
Ministers set to decriminalise rough-sleeping and public begging
Green energy cannot save us
We require reliable power — not just eco-posturing
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes