Michael Oakeshott
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)