The abominable sufferings of the people of Gaza prompt calls instead for American intervention.
Let’s remember what we are defending here. Not just our wealth, but our culture. A culture built on those values we’ve taken for granted. Classic liberal values. Not left-wing liberalism, but classic liberalism of free markets. Free speech. Free enterprise, freedom of religion, the presumption of innocence, the rule of law and equality under it.
Both Badenoch and Jenrick are navigating this post-liberal landscape and their debates are not market versus state control but about identity, community and the preservation of social order.
He reported the weakness of the British Establishment when faced by Hitler.
The party seems determined to drive out freedom of religion and belief from their ranks in a concerted attempt to secularise their parliamentary candidate selection processes, as the case of David Campanale demonstrates.
Kedourie was right: the end of Ottoman rule was a disaster for minorities
What is it that justifies universal adult participation in democracy – and the market place – on equal terms? It’s not anything one can find in Nietzsche, but rather the essentially Christian belief that all lives matter.
That is the mission of ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is holding its inaugural meeting in London. The public want a better, more productive and dignified economy, and a politics and a public culture which honours their values.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
A friend of Michael Gove and a former Liberal Democrats, he is bidding for the Daily Telegraph and is an investor in GB News, which he hopes to see at the centre of such an election, if it happens.
Maybe the future isn’t Leavers v Remainers, or even Conservative v Labour. Perhaps its truth v post-truth – Rowling v Dorries. I’m with Rowling. You?
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.
Britain’s Conservative Party has always thrived when it has combined realism about human nature — or at least voter’s instincts — with a unifying national vision.