The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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The strange death of the centre right
Moderate conservatives have allowed themselves to be marginalised by their populist rivals.
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The philosophical salvation of Kemi Badenoch
In John Ruskin’s working-class conservatism lies a path to revive the Tory Party.
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The year ahead: Can Kemi Badenoch rescue the Tories?
Labour has left her an open goal – her future depends on taking it.
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The climate consensus crisis
In the wake of Cop29, the UK is divided on the green energy transition.
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We’re going to find out how bad Project 2025 will be
Trump 2.0 may immiserate America in a way his first time in office could not.
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The spectre of American fascism
Kamala Harris’s bid for power is part of a long struggle against the politics of racism.
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Republicans are waging lawfare to win the White House
Democracy be damned.
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Don’t be seduced by the myths of the economic right
The authors of an influential new pamphlet are regurgitating bad history.
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What the Tories did to us
The essay collection The Conservative Effect explores how theatrical short-termism and specious rhetoric defined 14 years of mis-rule.
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The fall of the Conservatives
If the Tories are to recover, they must resist the temptation to blame the electorate.
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Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The party will need to repudiate the failed policies and personalities of the past.
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Britain’s new Powellites
With the Conservative Party intellectually exhausted, a very-online vanguard is trying to refresh right-wing thought – but how much of…
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Evangelical Christians’ Trumpian pact
Conservative Christians would use their unlikely champion’s return to office to impose their own regressive values on America.
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Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult to…
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Labour must beware the lure of progressivism
The way forward is radical on the economy and conservative on society.
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Rishi Sunak’s right-wing pantomime impresses no one
The Prime Minister’s performative populism and unending U-turns are acts in a music-hall farce.
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America’s dime-store Nietzscheans
What the unmasking of an anonymous publisher and Twitter personality reveals about the far right in the US.
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Will Robert Jenrick’s Tory leadership pitch work?
The former immigration minister has transformed himself from a One Nation centrist into a right-wing firebrand.
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The strange death of conservatism
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s first obituary of Tory England was premature – but now, he says, the party is beyond saving.
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