Margaret Thatcher
The empty Trojan horse
Blairism and the Tories
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
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
