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The most remarkable Tory speech ever delivered in Manchester (where the Conservatives are holding their conference this week) was given by Disraeli in the...

The sudden collapse of Thomas Cook over the weekend of September 21/22 brought great hardship to travellers, and cost many people their jobs. In a letter...

Boris Johnson stirred widespread outrage by his inflammatory comments in the Commons on 25 September following the Supreme Court’s judgement that his decision...

A recent article in The Daily Telegraph quoted Aneurin Bevan’s famous attack on the Tories as “lower than vermin”. The attack appeared in what was supposed to...

Unionists (as Tories were known at the time) have been heavily censured for the ferocity of their opposition to Irish Home Rule before the First World War...

On 17 September, the Supreme Court began its deliberations to determine whether or not Boris Johnson had acted unlawfully in proroguing Parliament for five...

At the beginning of September each year, a new Chair takes office at the Independent Schools Association (ISA), an organisation which has grown rapidly in the...

It is repeatedly said that the political parties never put up candidates against a Speaker standing for re-election. This has only been the case in recent years...

Bruce Anderson, for many years a well-known political commentator, now writes a column about drink for The Spectator magazine. On 31 August he repeated the...