Tag: Conservatism

Total Results: 112


There's a dignity about home-owning. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
3 Aug 2020 - 1:00am

It’s time the Tories got tough on landlords A Land Value Tax would help pay for the Covid crisis — and give more people the chance to own a home

Peter Franklin

Monday, 27 July

27.07

Has lockdown broken old habits for good? Most of us are imitators not innovators: that’s why it takes a disaster to bring about change

Peter Franklin

Monday, 13 July

13.07

In defence of working-class conservatism Showing respect for left-behind communities doesn't constitute an attack on metropolitan values

Peter Franklin

Thursday, 11 June

11.06

Abolishing the police is a cop out It just kicks the can of moral authority down the road

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, 24 March

24.03

Can your ideology cope with coronavirus? How today's prevailing political positions measure up against a pandemic

Peter Franklin

Monday, 9 March

09.03

Why conservatism is doomed Despite Tory election victories, the Right still faces huge problems

Ed West

Thursday, 6 February

06.02

I don’t miss the nastiness of the Left The Tories recognise that human beings are inherently broken; the Left is convinced we're perfectible

Giles Fraser

Tuesday, 4 February

04.02

The YouTube-ification of the Right Conservatives should take a step back from the day-to-day combat of the culture war

Niall Gooch

Tuesday, 28 January

28.01

How will Britain cope without empire? Our diminished nation needs a democratic refit as we leave imperial Europe

Jonathan Rutherford

Thursday, 16 January

16.01

Raise your glass to Roger Scruton, the terroiriste The great philosopher's love affair with Burgundy had much in common with his conservatism and love of place

Giles Fraser

Tuesday, 31 December

31.12

How my daughter disrupted my politics When your child is born profoundly disabled, it forces you to see everything differently

Ian Birrell

Monday, 30 December

30.12

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman The Conservative MP's 2011 <I> Case for Real Capitalism </I> was prescient — but ignored by his party

James Kirkup