As the Australian Right-of-centre Liberal party stares down the barrel of another election defeat, it's further proof, says Professor James Allan, that there are no prizes for conservatives who kowtow to the Left.
Winning elections is pointless without real change, says Dr James Allan. Right-wing leaders must take bold stances on immigration, Net Zero and the culture wars – playing it safe will only lead to failure.
There is a political movement that is dying before our very eyes. It lives under a variety of names. For Dr David McGrogan it is Nice Right Liberalism: the belief that deep down everyone is really a decent English chap.
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
When Suella Braverman tried to speak at Cambridge last week, the university authorities caved into a pro-Palestine mob and allowed her to be cancelled. Starmer is to blame for cancelling the free speech bill, she says.
A freedom of speech row has erupted at Durham University as one of its oldest societies, the 182 year-old Durham Union debating society, was banned from taking part in freshers' fair over "DEI non-compliance".
It’s the spirit of Dr Samuel Johnson – with his sharp wit, deep insight and commonsense approach – that’s needed to revive the Tories, not Boris, insists Joanna Gray.
What happened in Britain during the years 2018-24 wasn’t the philosophical defeat of 'Toryism'. It was a Battle Royal with the Blob that the British Right fought and lost, decisively, says J. Sorel.
As the Right goes into opposition for at least the next five years, Joanna Gray takes a look at what it is about conservatism that makes it better than anything the Left has to offer – and no, it's not Boris Johnson.
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.
