The Failure of the Conservative Party

Feb 26, 2024 by

by Effie Deans, The New Conservative: The main purpose historically of the Conservative Party is to conserve. Rather like the RSPB is supposed to protect birds the Conservative Party is supposed to protect Britain. Protecting Britain...

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Did conservatism die with Sir Roger Scruton?

Sep 21, 2023 by

by Karl Williams, The Conservative Reader: Why is it that we adhere to ‘conservatism’? Following his untimely death in January 2020, Roger Scruton was eulogised as Britain’s ‘greatest modern conservative thinker’, ‘the leading...

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Book review: Kruger on the need for Conservatives once more to foster virtue

Aug 18, 2023 by

by Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home: Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation by Danny Kruger. […]  Here is Kruger, leading from the front: “I argue in this book that the purpose of politics is the cultivation of...

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The culture war will be an election issue, and the Tories can’t allow the woke to win

Jul 30, 2023 by

by Charles Moore, Telegraph: The party is hamstrung by its own role in promoting an ideology that threatens the Western way of life. […]  But the biggest error goes way beyond banking. You see it in the Civil Service, major...

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Polls show Americans are embracing social conservatism in numbers not seen since 2012

Jul 25, 2023 by

by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite: Support for social conservatism has risen 8 points in the last two years as Americans increasingly reject far-left radicalism. While there have been plenty of positive developments in the culture wars —...

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The Tories must fight the culture wars – or die

Jun 27, 2023 by

by Tim Stanley, Telegraph: Conservatives who argue that the party should only fight on economics don’t understand today’s politics. There is a breed of Tory who says “let’s give up on the culture war and focus on making people rich”. The...

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