Harold Macmillan
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The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
Get tough, Kemi
The Conservatives will not shake off the burden of their legacy merely by reaffirming their “values”
The ghost of PMQs past
The biggest change to PMQs in sixty years is that the PM’s answers have got longer
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
