‘The British body politic, once so widely imitated throughout the world, now resembles an empty husk’

A flawed economic doctrine led Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to plunge Britain into its worst postwar crisis

The think-tank Demos has switched from New Labour to ‘Progressive Conservatism’. Philip Blond has journeyed from ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ to ‘Red Toryism’. Now the two have joined forces and both Right and Left have been taken in

‘More of a fire fighter than a fire starter, Geert Wilders has been caught in the nightmare of a British establishment that can't tell the difference’

‘The decision to ban Wilders was the desperate diktat of ministers who have lost sight of the distinction between arbitrary government and the rule of law’

Standpoint's Mole in the House of Lords says the institution is both effective and efficient

Buried in the Coroners and Justice Bill, about to be rammed through Parliament, are a variety of potentially disastrous changes to the law

Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917-2008): A tribute to Ireland's greatest modern public intellectual

The Tories should listen to the visionary behind ConservativeHome.com

David Cameron's closest adviser has become a liability rather than an asset