Eventually, unless our electoral system changes, a single party will emerge as the dominant force on the Right. Whatever the exact lineage of that party, I know what, before long, its opponents will take to calling it.
His abandonment of Ukraine is shameful, his threats against Canada disgusting and his designs on Greenland might have been scripted by Putin, but he seems to have called Venezuela correctly and, in so doing made the world a slightly better place.
Our current legal and political machinery lands the mother of a 13-year-old daughter in prison for over a year over some nasty words online yet pours its energies to rescuing a man who detests Britain.
The artistic establishment might not have forgiven Stoppard had he made it explicit. But we who do, we surely should recognise and mourn the passing of one of our own.
The impact of excessive taxation and spending on growth cannot be disguised. We are eating the seed corn; to snatch at immediate revenue, we are reducing future income.
The Union now gives automatic membership to (overwhelmingly international) business students whilst being no longer permitted to advertise itself to domestic students when they receive their offer. The results have been predictable.
Conservatives are doing the right thing by offering sensible, small government, pro-business policies that can deliver growth and strong borders. It may feel unrewarding, but it is the only credible approach.
Cut it any way you like, we keep coming back to what the electoral logic dictates, however much the two parties chafe at it. Under first-past-the-post, it would be calamitous to have competing Rightist candidates in every constituency.
Do you want a vision of the next four years? Starmer delivering his nasal clichés to a staged cabinet meeting, while the country falls to pieces around him.
A new book Rage of Party tells the story of how Toryism, initially the creed of Royalist elites, became populist in the face of Whig oligarchy. It makes for a terrific read. We now hear that the Tories are ‘finished.’ I feel it is far too soon for threnodies.
I can’t help feeling that would be a more equitable solution, one that would give Labour its majority while retaining both the civility of the House and the link back to the council of bishops and barons called into being by Magna Carta.
Supporters of tariffs make a series of claims that are not only false, but are logically incompatible one with another. It doesn’t hold them back.
He has has a problem that Ethelred never faced: Britain is borrowing £150 billion a year simply to cover its existing spending commitments. There. Is. No. Money.
Why persist in a job that gives him no pleasure and serves no higher ideological goal? It’s not even as if he is the champion of a Labour faction in the way that Blair, Brown and Corbyn were.