The Conservative Woman

WITHIN 36 hours of Tuesday’s unprecedented, humiliating, crushing House of Commons defeat for Theresa May and her cynically misnamed EU ‘Withdrawal’ Agreement, which would lock the UK into a permanent Brussels vassalage even more...

CREDIBILITY and prestige are important for governments no matter what their hue. The USSR suffered two major blows to its international prestige in 1986 and 1987. The first, a tragedy, was the Chernobyl disaster. The...

THERE are few American commentators I admire more than Heather Mac Donald. If you watch anything this week, watch this Sunday Special with Ben Shapiro interviewing her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjuqvKdf5g In it, Mac Donald explains that ‘white males...

AS reported by Alistair Thompson on TCW yesterday the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is to poll its 35,000 members to ask whether ‘they would help a terminally ill patient to die and whether...

WHILE I was wandering around YouTube for yesterday’s Midweek Hymn, I discovered the largest fully playable musical instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, and I thought it deserved a blog of...

THE day before the catastrophic defeat of Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement, another Brexit debate in the Houses of Parliament took place almost unnoticed. I am talking about Monday’s The Brexit Petitions Debate at Westminster Hall,...

In response to The Conservative Woman: Be under no illusion, this was not a victory for the Brexiteers, Aberrant_Apostrophe wrote: Even if she survives today’s confidence vote her position is untenable. How many times have we read...

In response to Nola Leach: How the tax system crushes families, JohnB wrote: I think one of the biggest problems with the tax system is its virtually exclusive focus on individuals and not families. Married...

THE Brexit vote inevitably overshadowed yesterday’s appalling jihadist attack on a five-star Kenyan hotel, in which 15 died including a Briton and an American. In the aftermath of the incident, for which responsibility was...

LAST night Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement was rejected by a huge margin in a historic Commons defeat. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 against the deal that set out the terms of Britain's...