Margaret Thatcher
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Thatcher’s ‘Wiring Diagram’ and why we need it once again
We need a new Hoskyns-inspired intervention to deal with today’s cultural crisis
The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
The day terrorism won
The murder of Ian Gow – thirty years on
What is a conservative?
Brexit proved there is a huge audience for a culturally conservative party, but who will fill it?
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
The poster of the century?
Did Saatchi & Saatchi win it for Thatcher?
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
