A new book claims the great man was an instrument of divine providence. He would not have been convinced, and nor should you be.
An austere, joyless tone informs most of the essays in this new book.
At a deep, emotional level the battle will for Englishmen – especially Tory Englishmen – remain Shakespeare’s Agincourt until “the ending of the world’.
Stalin accused him of spying for Churchill and locked him up.
It is now clear that Baldwin (and Chamberlain after him) steadily rebuilt Britain’s armed strength in a determined and prudent manner after 1934.
Unshakeably devoted to ‘The Lady’, he was the greatest PPS of all time – and one of the most courageous politicians of his generation.
Honoured today as a forerunner of social justice conservatism, the Tory battler against slavery was a more complex figure.
A review of “A Strange Romance” – Daisy Hay’s account of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary-Anne Disraeli.
What does the current leadership of the Party think? It has placed no strong reaffirmation of the Union in the election manifesto.
He was the last custodian of a lost Tory tradition of professional party organisation which maintained the Conservatives as a national institution.
This one-time “British Robespierre”, who then dedicated himself to preserving the United Kingdom, died a century ago today.
In Bristol, Bonar Law conceded that Nationalist Ireland could have Home Rule if Unionist Ulster was exempted from it.
How a peer reached 10 Downing Street for the last time, after the drama of the 1963 Conservative Party Conference
To read this latest Daily Telegraph book of military obituaries is a profoundly humbling experience.