THE TORCH

Five years ago, I liked to call politics ‘the dirtiest intellectual endeavour.’ I used to wonder how my friends could discuss Donald...

Hayward, Steven F. 2022. M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom. Encounter Books. 400 pgs. Since coming to England, I’ve...

In a more confident age, any conservative worth his salt would have accepted that the West could trace its legacy back, via the...

'Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies...

Yesterday I had the immense good fortune to read a work of ‘colonized literature.’ At least, I suppose that’s what people would call the...

The infamous Russian experience of sorrow will deepen this century. It is not the case that we are responsible for the disaster: most of...

Conservatism is, and always has been, a nebulous concept at every possible level of life and politics. The modern Conservative Party here...

Agamben, Giorgio. 2005. State of Exception. Translated by Kevin Attell. Chicago. Five years ago, if we’d been handed a crystal ball and...

For many denizens of the twenty-first century, it’s no longer obvious that the conservative temperament is a particularly nice one....

There is still a huge gap in modern legislation. Ownership of electronic libraries is password-protected, take streaming services...