But there is an odd man out.
He’s a dreadful federalist – but so are all the other candidates. They’re a symptom, not the problem itself.
Plus: The Telegraph’s war on Nadine. Bias at the Foreign Office. Euro-rules drive me bonkers. And: Cameron’s LadyShambles.
Or that Enoch Powell was a One Nation Tory? Sir Peter Tapsell reminds us how much we’ve changed.
“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop!” These words – from that great conservative intellectual William Buckley – are often quoted in attempts to define conservatism. However, it is not the full quotation, which carries on as follows: “…at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have […]
J P Floru is a Westminster councillor and Head of Programmes at the Adam Smith Institute. Follow J P on Twitter. Were allegations against “senior politicians from the Thatcher era” simply too good to be checked? During its endless navel gazing this weekend, the BBC never contemplated that possibility. Why? Because most BBC staff are […]