Jonny Thomson: Good manners aren’t a nice-to-have, but are central to democratic life

No society can operate on laws alone. The demonisation of opposition by both sides of the Brexit divide is dangerous.

Jonathan Hughes: In memory of Jonathan Sacks – whose words and writing contributed so much to British politics and society

He had a rare gift for reaching Jewish and non-Jewish and popular and elite audiences with his advocacy of community over individualism.

WATCH: “This goes way beyond irritating wokery, this is a fundamental attack on the Enlightenment”

“It’s the single most worrying intellectual current that we have lived through”, Daniel Hannan explains in this extract from our latest live event.

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.

WATCH: In memory of Roger Scruton: 8) “Is there an afterlife?” “That’s a mystery.”

“The greatest trial that all human beings have to confront is that of death. How to accept the fact that I will die.”

WATCH: Cameron – “Is the cause of a modern, compassionate Conservative Party lost? Absolutely not.”

He explains why he believes Gyimah, his former PPS, and others are making a mistake in switching to the Liberal Democrats.

Richard Kelly: Brexit has exposed the age-old clash between liberalism and democracy

‘Liberal democracy’ is not an inevitable combination. Nor, it seems, is it necessarily a sustainable one.

Emily Barley: What does the Conservative Party stand for?

It feels like our Party has forgotten that even a broad church needs shared values on which its different wings and traditions can agree.

Political beliefs ought to be the subject of robust debate, not protected with legal cotton wool

The way equalities law applies to “philosophical belief” has created a messy courtroom battleground for all sorts of angry fringe groups to seek protection.

Daniel Hannan: Islam has its own, indigenous, free-market tradition

Nasserism, Ba’athism and Arab Socialism, not capitalism, are the colonial impositions on the Arab world.

We need a regeneration of the Right

Historically, we have developed our best new ideas and talents when in Opposition. We must break that cycle, and renew our movement now.

Tim Montgomerie: The world’s most successful conservative? Ten observations about John Key

To mark Key’s resignation, we republish our founder’s insights into the basis of his success.

Rebecca Coulson: Thinking about the first human head transplant makes my brain hurt

If the head of one person is attached to the body of another, which of them survives – if either?

Imogen Atkinson: More foodbanks – not a sign of a failing state, but a sign of a compassionate society

The welfare state is rigid and mechanistic – charity is flexible and empathetic.

Rebecca Coulson: Learning, work and life – and the intrinsic value of all three

Today would have been my dad’s 65th birthday. His work reveals new wonders of the world to me even in his absence.