During the last year, we’ve learned much about the Government – but far more about ourselves.
The Government can do a lot in a short space of time. A key question should be: how do we make these towns nicer places to live?
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
“Our values are rooted in the fundamental belief that individual freedom enables both the greatest achievement and the gentlest kindness.”
His critics display the close-mindedness that they falsely suspect in him. Indeed, you won’t find a less partisan man.
Plus: by stealth, under the cover of Covid-19, Starmer is changing the Labour Party to one based on social democracy, rather than red-blooded socialism.
Clashes over Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion are noisy, nasty – and, by definition, impossible for Johnson to keep out of.
They don’t talk about politics in daily life; don’t write to local or national newspapers; most importantly, they’re not politically active online.
Maybe, just maybe, such a leader could take the Conservative Party in a different direction.
Extreme gender ideology undermines cultural norms, scientific reality, the connection between motherhood and children, parental rights, and free speech.