The Covid pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of the state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by the answers that their own gov...
Although Marxism as an organised force is a shadow of its Cold War heyday, we seem to live in a time when calling someone a Marxist can still inspire a strange...
Now is a good time to take stock of what the last few years have taught us about British Conservatism.
The UK’s departure from the EU prompted another bout ...
The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames. Edinburgh University Press. 336 pp. £24.99
The chronology of devolution ...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...
Lord Sumption, the former Supreme Court Justice and historian, devoted his 2019 Reith Lectures on Radio 4 to making the case that the law – particularly human ...
It has been widely
observed that something has gone awry with the Conservative party. Where once
its watchwords were pragmatism and economic competence, solici...
On 27 April 1968, Richard Crossman reflected in his diary on Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Powell had delivered the speech a week earlier in a bid to...
The twentieth anniversary of Labour’s 1997 election victory passed without much comment last year – among other reasons, the hectic pace of political developmen...
When the Conservative Party is strong and the Labour Party is weak, leading ornaments of the British left often turn their minds to the creation of a broader, m...
The Political Quarterly commentary published shortly before the 1975 referendum on Britain’s membership of the EEC was written by Bernard Crick. His summary of ...
