Conservative Party
George Osborne: Midwife of Reform
Cameron’s Chancellor did more than most to allow Farage’s party to triumph
The Conservatives must change or die
Kemi Badenoch has had her chance and she has failed
Conservatives need to dig deep if they want to win
The Tories should look to their former agriculture base
Labour didn’t start the gender madness
Sorry Tories, we can remember further back than last week
A fork in the road
Badenoch seems to think she can coast to victory because Labour are every bit as hapless
The Irish Tory taxi driver
The Conservatives have no idea where to go
The tragedy of Mark Field
This is a book with an identity crisis to match that of the Conservatives
Boris Johnson is as shameless as ever
There is no case for his return to politics
The Conservatives are still getting Northern Ireland wrong
Kemi Badenoch should be apologising for the Tories’ broken promises on Northern Ireland
Who is to blame for Badenoch?
Her failure should have been foreseen
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon