
Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too
Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.
Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.
He sought to unite the nation in a moral mission, “a common endeavour”, and to leave Labour with nothing to say.
Progressive commentators and saloon-bar orators are wrong to condemn MPs for finding the national issue hard to settle.
Conservatives ought to know without being told that one cannot just take a glance round the world, see which culture one likes the look of, and graft it onto one’s own.
There has been a tendency to suppose that because Britain’s power has declined in relative terms they must have become totally useless.
The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.
We need to rekindle l’esprit communautaire, on both sides of the channel. In Walpole’s famous phrase, “this dance can no longer go”.