A fundamental clash between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism is taking place – and it cuts across Left and Right.
Where to begin? Let’s start here…
In political terms, 2016 is turning out to be every bit as important, in historical terms, as 1968.
Call that white flight if you like. Call it “white avoidance” if you must. I prefer to call it civilised, bourgeois, suburban safety.
I see you: the trade union boss who makes a hell of that daily commute. I know you: the apparatchik who’d sell her “principles” for a piece of dead ermine to wrap around her throat.
Who are these people? They earn between £50,000 and £150,000 before tax. They are the natural aristocracy of white collar professionals.
The former apprentice and Conservative candidate for Pontefract says that Labour’s caricature of the Party is a ploy to keep the North and people down.
Why is discrimination on the ground of the family into which you born less unfair than discrimination on the ground of the colour of your skin?
He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.
Whether in terms of ethnicity, class, education, age group or physical and mental norms, we are not, in practice, the integrated nation that we think we are
On both sides of the Atlantic, reformist conservatives are trying to change their parties.
Renewal is backing a campaign to reduce Labour’s disproportionate tax that is harming this crucial community facility.
While cannabis might be relatively harmless to policy-makers, the same does not apply to ordinary working people.
The squeeze on living standards threatens to hollow out middle class support for the Conservatives. No wonder Labour’s poll lead is so stubborn.
It may not have closed hunts down, but a law rooted in prejudice and class warfare is a stain on the statute book.