Tories
How the first culture war ended
The Whig vs Tory battle was resolved through pragmatism and compromise
Badenoch must go
The hapless Conservative leader is consigning the party to complete irrelevance
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Blue de grâce?
The next election could spell doom for the Conservative Party
Reflections on a ravaged conference
There is a chance here for the rebirth of the right
Life in Trusstopia
What would things be like if Liz Truss had continued to govern?
The Tories are worse than weak
The Conservatives cannot blame powerlessness for their failures
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad