With successive scandals, lawsuits, looming bankruptcy, terrorism investigations and breaches of charity law, the society has become a byword of iniquity from Christ Church to Somerville. If serious reform is delayed, the future for the Oxford Union looks bleak.
The longer the Government pauses, the clearer the conclusion becomes, this is a negotiation conducted in opacity, defended in haste, and now reconsidered under pressure from allies, Parliament, and its own unresolved paper trail.
In Rushmoor, if you drop litter, you can be certain you will not receive a fine if spotted. Why? Because our Labour council has decided the focus should be on educating people, not enforcing.
It is gravely concerning for younger generations. But on present trends, this shift will be equally consequential for older generational cohorts in both the medium and long-term, as well as for the size of the state.
The Mandelson scandal is a reminder that even venerable institutions can drift into complacency if their foundations aren’t maintained. The Conservatives should seize this moment – not to score points – but to strengthen the constitutional architecture of our country.
This is not an argument that she’s innocent. Nor is it an attempt to retry the case in the court of public opinion. She was convicted by a jury after a long and complex trial. That matters. But the justice system shouldn’t fear answering doubts: that’s strength not weakness.
A soaked expedition into Britain’s most volatile three‑way by‑election, where demographic fault lines, tactical voters and clipboard‑clutching missionaries collide.
Purpose is something that neither referendum results nor successive election victories can guarantee. Purpose and vision can only be drawn from years of clear and intentional persuasion both of the electorate and of the governing class.
Its long-term impact on our society at large dwarfs the cultural wars, the pronoun skirmishes, the speculation over Trump’s purchase of Greenland, or Putin’s territorial ambitions.
High performers in any field are in many ways naturally Conservative, given that to get there you must have several of our trademark values: aspiration, hard work, resilience, competitiveness and excellence. It is lazy thinking to view artists as any different.
Increasingly I see good Tories dismissed as ‘wets’ or ‘nutters’. Not in a jovial way, but in a concerted bid to distance ourselves from each other. This attitude might fulfil left wing ideals of political purity but it won’t win elections.
Pollsters tend to indulge in finger-in-the-air postulation about an election perhaps years away. Frankly, you might as well slaughter a chicken and try to read its entrails at this point.
Starmer’s attacks on Brexit and its impact on the economy are as predictable as they are risible. If we want an honest conversation about growth, productivity, and our place in the world we must not let recycled myths be part of it
The centre has moved. Prosper UK are stuck in the 2010 era, and in denial about how much the political landscape has changed. We can be economically focused while also speaking clearly about immigration and net zero.
A party which is called Reform and which fails to reform is utterly redundant. Voters do not gift infinite patience to a movement defining itself in one way and carrying itself in another; the current Labour government, and the Conservative government before it, tell us that much.