The attempt this week to silence her when she spoke in Oxford has had the opposite effect of making her and her arguments far better known.

The British are deluged with sanctimonious propaganda about the need to save the planet, and China goes on burning coal.

Tony Connelly describes in painful detail the success of Irish negotiators in aligning themselves with the EU27, while leaving the Brits to flounder.

Bower writes him off as a loser, which is perhaps what he will end up being. But he did much better at the last general election than the commentariat expected.

The authors are entitled to their dismal view of Britain's recent past, but it does not strike one as a conservative view.

As in 2019, he plans to step forward as the only man who can defeat Farage and save the Conservative Party.

Tate & Lyle dropping the famous lions and bees image is a sad illustration of a country losing touch with its past

It would be madness to allow an alliance of brutes, scandal-mongers and prigs to bounce Johnson out of office.

Andrew Gimson: The mayor of London's idea for an outer tier of the EU has received a warm welcome in Zurich

He does not just say what people want him to say, regardless of whether he can achieve it.

The country needs a steady and competent hand to lead it through difficult economic times

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The ineptitude of its start has contaminated voter views of centre-right values as well as the Conservatives' opinion poll ratings.

The Prime Minister has sunk in the esteem of Tory MPs, ConHome readers and the press because he hides away too much in Downing Street.

William Keegan's memoir describes with ebullient good humour how he covered half a century of bad news.

The “bohemian efficiency” of the unit that has honed the political skills of generations of Conservative big beasts…

Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

We see the pendulum swinging towards stricter morality and rules, upheld by the dull, the prudent and the reputable.

But his new book conveys very well what is wrong with social media, and how it might be put right.

At the heart of May's operation, this staunch Conservative is now mulling potential ways to a second referendum with Labour MPs.

But Tory Democracy has triumphed for much of our history since Disraeli, and can before long be expected to triumph again.

His columns from The Times are informed by his experience of what works, and more importantly, what doesn't work.

When a minister comes under attack from the parliamentary lobby, petty allegations are treated as monstrous crimes.

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

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Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.

They described Johnson as a "dictator", and want a local champion. The Conservatives have now selected their candidate.

His critics have fallen for the Fact-Checking Fallacy: the illusion that in politics or journalism, accurate facts are all that matter.

The odd thing about this author and his Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.

David Skelton catalogues the snobbish abuse heaped by progressive intellectuals on workers in neglected towns.

The department is appallingly bad at giving ministers accurate information about what is happening now.

"I think if Boris was still in I'd vote for Boris, obviously," a Hartlepudlian said. "He was dopey but he was our dopey."