Conservative Party
Cameron Can Come Out Fighting — Or Chuck It In
The riots have given this pragmatic Prime Minister a chance to impose a tough new social agenda and relaunch his leadership
Hizb ut Tahrir decides to make it up
My erstwhile friends and comrades in Hizb ut Tahrir — the liberation party, innit — have released a new report on ‘The future for Muslims in Britain’. The new pamphlet professes to look at the British state’s ‘anti-Islamic agenda’ as part of its ‘war on Islam’.
Why the World Needs a Younger Winston
Seventy years after the Battle of Britain, we again face the threat of a new Dark Age. Can our leaders emulate Churchill’s finest hour?
At the Heart of the Big Society
David Cameron should enlist everybody up to the Queen to rebuild Britain’s moral foundations
Iain Duncan Smith
The “quiet man” has nerves of steel, and his welfare reform may make the Conservatives the natural party of government again
Saul Alinsky
Does David Cameron know that one of the inspirations for his “Big Society” was a Marxist who wanted to overthrow Western society?
Party Lines
They’ve already had enough of Nick and Dave. Daisy Waugh picks up growing support for a Latin lover
Selling the Conservative Soul
‘Cameron should have been subjected to the treatment meted out to used-car salesman caught selling duds’
Untrue Blue
‘If fewer of us feel tribal about politics, it is because the parties have been disloyal to the country’
They Still Won’t Tell Us the Dire Truth
This election will go down as a dishonest campaign: none of the parties came clean with the voters about the economy
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal