Is this Conservatism?
Matthew Parris's experiment with 30 marginal Tories reveals the extent to which Conservatives are willing to compromise for votes - but do they need to?
- 30 March 2013
Why I left the party I love
What if the party you represent goes so off-piste that staying in means you have to abandon the true principles of that party?
- 22 January 2013
William Rees-Mogg: a hero of intellectual conservatism
Lord Rees-Mogg was one of the most influential figures in the great history of the Conservative Party, shaping the party and the nation with his radical, free-market brand of conservatism
- 30 December 2012
The public itself is an independent press regulator - we don't need another
When the state, or even elected representatives themselves seek to define, consolidate and apportion morality, then the public is once again diminished
- 9 November 2012
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