conservatism
Boris Johnson and the Tory identity crisis
The Tory conference in Manchester will be a relatively muted affair. In part, this is because — as I say…
Boris's eco-optimism will get the better of him
Vote blue for green jobs in the red wall. That’s the message we’re supposed to take from Boris Johnson’s ten…
Are liberal conservatives now history?
It was a luminous late August sunset, and we were in France, dining outdoors with some friends who have a…
Taxi cabs are New York’s right-wing safe spaces on wheels
Conservatives in a place like New York — squirming daily beneath the iron heel of a newly hawkish progressive minority…
Uncle Tom shows another side of the African-American story
Although it finished production months before George Floyd was killed, the documentary Uncle Tom, produced by Larry Elder, has been released…
We need black conservatism
We are living through an update of radical chic. Elite white liberals are apologizing for and even applauding the worst…
Trump’s America needs the conservative tradition
The modern American conservative tradition – roughly dating from the dawn of the 20th century — emerged in reaction to…
National Review: for Trump in 2020?
Does President Trump have a new favorite magazine? At yesterday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Trump took a bit of time…
Why I’ll never become an MP
Every now and then someone asks me if I have ever thought of becoming an MP. My response tends to…
Conservative politician forced to apologise for attending conservative conference
Every now and then someone asks me if I have ever thought of becoming a politician. My response tends to…
A toast to Roger Scruton
In clubs and other admirable locations throughout the civilised world, glasses have been raised and toasts proposed. But this was…
Tulsi Gabbard, conservative crush
Conservative sadbois like two things: hot moms and Middle Eastern despots. Enter Tulsi Gabbard, the comely representative for Hawaii’s second…
Reports of the GOP’s death are greatly exaggerated
David Brooks, the center-right Cassandra of the New York Times, reckons that a GOP apocalypse is coming. The data predicted…
Why I don’t, never have, and never will trust the people
It was late, and a friend and I were left to talk Brexit. He’s a keen and convinced Tory Brexiteer…
The Sajid Javid manifesto
There’s an old joke that the most dangerous position in the Tory party is the favourite for the leadership. The…
How indiscretions over Suez ruined Rab Butler
I bet that you are at best dimly aware of the Progress Trust, and that is what the members of…
What’s it like being the only right-wing comic?
Geoff Norcott is lean, talkative, lightly bearded and intense. Britain’s first ‘openly Conservative’ comedian has benefited enormously from the Brexit…
It’s not just Donald Trump, the right is tearing itself apart everywhere
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
A conservative case for voting 'in'
Europe has enjoyed an exceptional three decades of freedom and prosperity. Why risk that?
Who is more undemocratic, Putin or Brussel? I say Brussels — by far
The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…
Why MPs have a duty to resist online petitions
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
The real power of free markets: not efficiency, but innovation and dumb luck
The greatest mistake made by conservatism was its overly close relationship with neo-classical economics. This was a marriage of convenience:…
The secret heart of London conservatism…
There is a dive near St James’s which could claim to be the epicentre of international reaction. It is also…
Elizabeth I, queen of the waiting game
Women are ‘foolish, wanton flibbergibs, in every way doltified with the dregs of the devil’s dunghill’. So a cleric reminded…
Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’
Matthew Parris 14 November 2015 9:00 am
An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…