Margaret Thatcher
The virtues of habit
Schooling needs a different kind of Thatcherism
Is Liz Truss Thatcherite?
She wants to change our circumstances rather than manage them
Let Thatcher rest
Toryism must face modern challenges with modern ideas
Don’t cry for Harold Macmillan
Retro Toryism can’t save the Conservatives
I spread disinformation, and I’m very sorry
In which our brave author is found guilty of trying to be funny online
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
From Boris to boring
Might the British electorate have decided they have had quite enough excitement from one premier?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
