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Posts Tagged: Edmund Burke

Alec Cadzow: Global Britain must be prepared to intervene in the Middle East

The region has been conspicuously absent from our foreign policy discourse, largely attributable to mistrust on intervention caused by the Iraq war.

By Alec Cadzow | 15 January 2021 | 54 comments

Jonathan Werran: To build back, we need strong and empowered communities

The effectiveness of voluntary groups and social enterprises in responding to the pandemic shows their potential.

By Jonathan Werran | 17 November 2020 | 18 comments

From Disraeli to Johnson, the Left has never understood the Right, and Fawcett shows us why

A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.

By Andrew Gimson | 31 October 2020 | 38 comments

Interview with Chris Patten: We must stand up to the Communists in Beijing who hate freedom in Hong Kong

“I’m very, very positive about China, but I’m very, very negative about the Chinese Communist Party.”

By Andrew Gimson | 9 June 2020 | 107 comments

Jake Scott: To defend the ‘Blue Wall’, Tory MPs must be prepared to defy the whip

To paraphrase Burke, they owe their Party, as much as their electors, the benefit of their independent, locally-informed judgement.

By Jake Scott | 5 June 2020 | 41 comments

Daniel Hannan: Where we’ve got to with the lockdown. We say we want it. Then we break it.

There has been a vivid daily demonstration of our collective double-standard in the mass of journalists swarming outside Cummings’s house.

By Daniel Hannan | 27 May 2020 | 281 comments

Daniel Hannan: Why are so many Burkean Tories still backing this rolling forward of state power?

The government’s initial response was in fact admirably Burkean. The full force of law was used sparingly. And you know what? It did the trick.

By Daniel Hannan | 13 May 2020 | 52 comments

A book which sees the ultra-liberals as a threat. But doesn’t recognise that they’re not having it all their own way.

The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 March 2020 | 62 comments

Roger Scruton: The ten principles that should form the foundation of a modern Conservative policy.

We republish a personal Tory manifesto first published by this site almost exactly five years ago.

By Roger Scruton | 14 January 2020 | 12 comments

James Kirkup: Our advice to Johnson. Social mobility should be at the heart of your programme.

The fifth piece in our series this week about what the Tory Manifesto should look like.

By James Kirkup | 8 November 2019 | 18 comments

Martin Parsons: What is the point of the Commission for Countering Extremism?

Its report focuses on hate speech – which is being weaponised by various groups, including Islamists, intent on censoring public disagreement with their own beliefs.

By Martin Parsons | 10 October 2019 | 23 comments

Neil O’Brien: Fifty shades of conservatism

It’s a bit like the roof of Parliament’s Westminster Hall: which is held up by a lot of huge, ancient beams all resting on each other.

By Neil O Brien MP | 7 October 2019 | 48 comments

Imogen Sinclair: Burke offers a solution to the decline of community

Increasingly there is a recognition that the little platoons can alleviate a range of modern social ills.

By Imogen Sinclair | 24 September 2019 | 5 comments

Tobias Ellwood: To flourish, our Party must stay in the centre ground – not march off to the right

We regularly describe ourselves as a broad church – and correctly so. Any alignment with the Brexit Party would see that width of appeal narrowed.

By Tobias Ellwood MP | 6 September 2019 | 229 comments

Tony Devenish: Having a Prime Minister who understands how local government works is hugely welcome

Listen to Johnson for any length of time and it becomes clear that his time as Mayor of London has had a profound impact on his politics.

By Tony Devenish | 5 September 2019 | 3 comments

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