Many dismiss Theresa May's three-year term as a failure. But with her reverence for rules and procedure, her predilection for compromise and her unwillingness to confront senior officials, she transformed British politics.
Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel has filed his dispatch on the National Conservatism Conference and concludes the movement, if that's what it is, isn't serious about winning and wielding political power.
Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016 and no rise to power has been as swift or unanimous. May did not have a policy but a personality – and it inaugurated a new era which we have not yet left.
Senior Whitehall mandarins want it both ways, says Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel. They want to exercise political power, but pretend Whitehall is no different from any other workplace, bound by the same codes of conduct.
In his new book, Matthew Goodwin shows he understands, in a way few academics do, that 'populism' is political opposition to a rapid decline in living standards.
'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.
Liz Truss’s speech in Washington last week makes her the first major British politician to recognise that the unless we win the culture war, the UK is doomed to economic stagnation.
France’s current pension entitlements are unaffordable, yet young people have been duped into defending them while Macron's base consists of the people whose privileges he is axing. He is fighting a war without an army.
“Coronations used to be about the future,” says J. Sorel. But judging from what we’ve heard about it and the bizarre invitation, it will be an uninspiring look backwards into Britain's recent past.
With Humza Yousaf, the SNP's pretence of real nationalism is gone and the globalist agenda based on degrowth and an elite disdain for democratic accountability is all that remains.
