Month: January 2020

Total Results: 80

January 13, 2020

The coming constitutional battle royal Instead of modernising a beloved old elite, Meghan seems recklessly determined to destroy it

Roger Scruton: Conservative lodestar The great philosopher gave Conservatism its head and heart, guiding the party to a great victory last year

How Boris could blow his majority History shows that landslide victories are no guarantee that governments will be returned to power

The ‘Great Awokening’ started a century ago The 2020s are merely re-enacting the culture wars of the 1920s

Friday

10.01

Harry and Meghan’s embarrassing predicament The world is bound to lose interest once the Sussexes step back from the Royal Family

What can we expect from 2020 politics? Donald Trump will win, national populism will continue apace and the Green movement will grow

Matthew Goodwin

When female undergrads were ‘semi-demented spinsters’ A century ago the first women graduated from Oxford — and another obstacle to female emancipation fell

Why Schitt’s Creek is a parable for the good life If you lost everything you ever valued, how would you find meaning?

Thursday

09.01

Don’t expect Jeremy Corbyn to go quietly Labour is going to find it impossible to escape the shadow of its humiliated leader

Stephen Pollard

Freud would know why we’re all workaholics Our culture of overwork is a means of running away from the inevitable descent into nothingness

Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

The blight of farm suicides It's badly paid, lonely, bureaucratic and the most dangerous job in Britain

John Lewis-Stempel