2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1222+ words) Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton This book makes one think the better of Rishi Sunak. We are reminded of his high gifts and honourable conduct. Here is a statesman who felt a…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (597+ words) As is almost always the case, I was, yet again, proven right. In all honesty, it’s fast becoming a trend that I am growing tired of. Repeatedly, I have to shoehorn ‘I told you so’ into conversations at the pub....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1083+ words) James Windsor-Clive was the Conservative candidate for the Ealing Central and Acton at the 2024 general election. The UK is in the doldrums. Incomes have stagnated for the best part of two decades, and people have little hope of fortunes improving....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (920+ words) There was something revealing about John Healey’s speech on Monday. At a moment when Britain desperately needs an economic strategy, the Chancellor offered something closer to economic cognitive therapy: retraining us to believe that if growth feels possible, it will…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (157+ words) Stewart Harper is Vice President of the National Conservative Convention, and sits on the Board of the Party. We are moving to be in a genuinely battle-ready state for whenever the General Election comes. Meanwhile our opponents are not in…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (882+ words) Diana Beech is former policy adviser to three Conservative Universities and Science Ministers. She is now Director of the Finsbury Institute – a public policy hub at City St George’s, University of London. One of Kemi Badenoch’s sharpest criticisms of the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (736+ words) Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. It should be no surprise that the tax-greedy Burnham government, desperate to lure away from Reform the Red Wall voters they took for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (344+ words) Unfortunately, I was not allowed to attend Reform Conference. The Conference, from what I have been told by friends who have made the trek out to the midlands and from videos online, seems fairly mundane. There isn’t much to write…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1309+ words) “Don’t look back in anger, don’t look back in anger, I heard you say” This iconic Oasis anthem from the 1990’s is a fitting soundtrack to the first few days of Andy Burnham’s arrival in Parliament as Prime Minister. Not…...