In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.
There were moments when the PM made everyone from the Speaker down laugh, and most of his listeners were grateful for light relief from the crisis.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
With her odd mixture of indiscretion and obedience, her contempt for liberal groupthink and love of freedom, she in many ways a useful ally.
Johnson’s troops are issuing declarations of intent in public. His success will depend on his ability to learn from mistakes.
In this battle between optimism and pessimism, hope and fear, faith and scepticism, Starmer found it hard to sow seeds of negativity.
The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.
An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.
The PM sounded liberated as he defied the grim official wisdom for which the Leader of the Opposition has become chief spokesman.
The Prime Minister needs a new, more straightforward manner in order to carry parliamentary and public opinion with him.
Superior pundits fail to see the Prime Minister’s debt to Disraeli, and consider Johnson such a scoundrel they underestimate his chances of success.
His capacity to win some of his severest critics round, and persuade them of his “greatness of soul”, helps explain his success.
Johnson contradicts his message of national togetherness, and antagonises MPs, by appearing to regard criticism as disloyal.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
Starmer exposed factual contradictions in the PM’s statements: the PM preferred to defend Dido Harding, a damsel in distress.