The Tory election campaign is like one of those England batting collapses – paradoxically both distressing and enjoyable in equal measure, says Sean Walsh. The problem is the party has forgotten how to be conservative.
A new book by the head of an Oxford College wants unruly politicians brought to heel by lawyers and officials. But we should not throw away the sovereignty of parliament so lightly, says J Sorel.
Listening to Lee Cain on UnHerd, it's clear that the architects of Britain's lockdown policy still think they saved the day. In reality, it was their catastrophic mismanagement that has left the Tories in such a pickle.
The decision to ditch Boris Johnson has been slammed by former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Lee Anderson's defection to Reform U.K., the 'Henley Plot' to bring back Boris and the Daily Sceptic's latest Twitter pile-on.
The Conservatives' core vote is leaking away in the run-up to the election with just a quarter of pensioners planning to back the party, a new poll suggests.
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
In a heart-wrenching BBC Radio 4 account, Philippa blames Boris Johnson for her daughter's lockdown-induced suicide, underscoring the madness and profound human toll of the Government's pandemic measures.
Over a third of young people want to live under a leader who ignores elections and parliaments, according to a recent poll. What's driving this love of authoritarianism and should we be worried?
