Margaret Thatcher
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Legacy of failure
13 years of missed chances, bungled crises and miserable inaction
Reflections on the counter-revolution in Finchley
Britain cries out for a leader with Thatcher’s (counter)revolutionary spirit
Maggie the Great?
Margaret Thatcher had a tremendous impact yet much of it has not endured
Where did it all go wrong for Conservative economics?
We must look back before we can look forwards
A church too broad cannot convert
Against the Conservative big tent
Retreat to victory
Why the Tories should embrace a spell out of power
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
