The Tory selection doom loop
Conservative constituencies are revolting against CCHQ.
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Inside Viktor Orbán’s ideas factory
What makes Hungary so appealling to the new, radical right?
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How Deep England fell out of love with Boris Johnson
The disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
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Who could buy the Telegraph Media Group?
Whoever takes on the group’s titles will have a role in shaping the future of British conservatism.
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The first reactionary
Edmund Burke may be the Conservatives’ philosopher king – but his thinking was more fickle than Tories seem to realise.
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If the Tories are the party for hard-working people, why are they so spectacularly lazy?
For the past 13 years, Britain has been run by people who fundamentally can’t be bothered.
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The rise of Mavis man and woman
Meet “Mavis”: the Middle-Aged, Volatile, Insurgent voters reshaping Britain’s politics. Who are they and what do they want for themselves…
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Could millennials become Conservative voters after all?
New research suggests they don’t like the party but that their values aren’t so dissimilar.
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The Tory right says the quiet part out loud
Day two of the National Conservatism conference offered an unnerving insight into our ruling party.
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Europe’s false dawn
After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.
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Rescuing conservatism
A revival of civic institutions is needed to restore an alienated and divided country.
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National Conservatism is an intellectual dead end
The NatCon movement offers nothing but the redundant fusion of economic liberalism and social authoritarianism.
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The rise of Britain’s pantomime right
A nonsensical, camp new conservatism is being born on GB News.
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Happy, liberal conservatism is becoming impossible
With less public money to go around, no-one can avoid judgements about who deserves what.
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Letter of the week: What conservatism knows
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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Inside the Tory grassroots: what do members really want?
In Beaconsfield, one of the largest Conservative associations in the country, activists are frustrated and fearful of defeat.
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From the NS archive: The return of the Tufton-Buftons
2 October 2000: The Conservative Party is turning its back on Essex Man and selecting once again the squire, the…
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In the ruins of anti-fascist hegemony
The end of Roe vs Wade is part of a wholesale attack on America's democracy and postwar liberal consensus by…
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From God to monsters – the “new nationalism” of the US right
Is the Republican Party of Trump and QAnon also now the party of non-religious class warriors?
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