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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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The Tory doomscroll
Dismayed by the local elections, Conservatives fear the party faces not only electoral defeat but a crisis of identity.
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John Hayes: “Tory voters want full-fat Conservatism”
The MP considered one of the most right wing in parliament on immigration, the divine right of kings, and why…
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The new paranoid style
The Conservative Party has succumbed to ideology and has turned on the British institutions it once revered: the judiciary, the…
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The Tory party’s theatre of hate
The Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
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Miriam Cates: the radical traditionalist
Once a Labour Party member, the devout Christian and anti-woke campaigner is now one of the most controversial Tories in…
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The conservative paradox
The Tories face electoral oblivion, having failed to grasp that voters look to government for a shield against insecurity. Is…
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Conservatism’s cult of common sense
The Tories’ set the terms of British politics – to the common expense of all.
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