Socialism’s new and confused bastion: Teen Vogue

The magazine has taken a break from conspicuous consumption to blunder instead through the world of history and economics.

Daniel Hannan: The proposed Brexit terms represent a deal worse than either staying or leaving.

Frankly, any outcome – no deal, Norway, Canada, even the risk of a second referendum – would be better than what is currently on the table.

How the Monster of the Berlaymont could become the Monster of No Deal

In the event of no agreement, the Commission will be on its way out, new MEPs almost on their way in…and Selmayr will be in place. Send for the crucifixes and garlic!

Good luck, Prime Minister, with your plan to split the Left. Just don’t split the Right as well while you’re at it.

Her bid to woo Labour Commons votes for a Brexit deal is part of a wider gambit.

Lord Ashcroft: They want a People’s Vote. So what was 2016, then? A Penguins’ Vote?

P.S: Re my health. At 72, everything works as it should, with one exception – but help is at hand from modern medicine…

Alistair Lexden: Commemorating Baldwin, the Prime Minister who pioneered ‘One Nation’

The Conservative Party’s official historian was speaking at the unveiling of a new statue to the former Party leader in his home town of Bewdley today.

Lewis Baston: A bolder Callaghan would have won the 1978 election

So much of what now appears inevitable could have been very different – at least in the short term.

Alistair Lexden: A rigorous new biography explores the ‘mild supremacy’ of Lord Liverpool

William Hay offers a well-researched and welcome antidote to the reactionary caricature of Peterloo mythology.

George Freeman: Come to our Big Tent Ideas Festival next weekend. And help build conservatism and capitalism for a new generation.

Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Dan Hannan, Liam Halligan, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat & others will speak. And there’s a special discount for ConHome readers.

Kristian Niemietz: We need more stories about the fundamental flaws of socialism

All the most famous works about the failures of left-wing regimes flatter them by pinning the blame on inept implementation or flawed individuals.

Henry Hill: Salmond quits the SNP and takes Scottish Government to court

Also: Government accused of ‘appeasing the IRA’ over Ulster veterans; Welsh Labour leadership hopefuls in data row; and DUP urge end to Stormont boycott.

May’s courage, as she dances on, is admirable

The Prime Minister lacks panache, but it takes guts to keep going. Leadership requires the fortitude to cope with being weak.

Henry Smith: Why our ancient counties need preserving

While Lancashire is in the main in Lancashire, Wigan is both in and not in, like a Schrödinger county cat.

Garvan Walshe: Gove is setting himself up as Brexit’s Michael Collins

Not in the sense that he will be shot by his own side, but in his calculation that the best approach is to gain “the freedom to win freedom”.

Mohammed Amin: The toxification of politics threatens us all

The disease affecting Labour about Jews is now affecting the Conservatives about Muslims.