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
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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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What does Europe’s right want?
This year's National Conservatism conference was notably short of new ideas, meaningful debate and pro-Putin speakers, as attendees stuck to…
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Is Jacob Rees-Mogg the best hope for the Conservative right?
Rees-Mogg’s call for the National Insurance tax rise to be scrapped is the latest symptom of Boris Johnson’s crumbling authority.
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Boris Johnson is being consumed by the forces of a new Conservative ideology
The Tory party does not have the will or interest to put the common good before the doctrine of selfishness.
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