The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”

The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy

The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power

The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for

After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy

Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling

Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered

Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments 

The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction

The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats