Whatever your views of Boris Johnson, ejecting from Parliament the man responsible for the Government's current majority is a victory for the Blob that stains our democracy.
The Covid Inquiry hopes to rebrand lockdown as a noble cause, led astray by guilty men. In this way it seeks to revive the moral case for restrictions, and, still more, the moral case for the civil service.
Many dismiss Theresa May's three-year term as a failure. But with her reverence for rules and procedure, her predilection for compromise and her unwillingness to confront senior officials, she transformed British politics.
Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel has filed his dispatch on the National Conservatism Conference and concludes the movement, if that's what it is, isn't serious about winning and wielding political power.
Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016 and no rise to power has been as swift or unanimous. May did not have a policy but a personality – and it inaugurated a new era which we have not yet left.
Senior Whitehall mandarins want it both ways, says Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel. They want to exercise political power, but pretend Whitehall is no different from any other workplace, bound by the same codes of conduct.
In his new book, Matthew Goodwin shows he understands, in a way few academics do, that 'populism' is political opposition to a rapid decline in living standards.
'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.
Liz Truss’s speech in Washington last week makes her the first major British politician to recognise that the unless we win the culture war, the UK is doomed to economic stagnation.
France’s current pension entitlements are unaffordable, yet young people have been duped into defending them while Macron's base consists of the people whose privileges he is axing. He is fighting a war without an army.
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