The Conservative Woman

The fall-out from the Boris Johnson burka episode continues, and it has been turned into a not-so-subtle smear campaign to link both Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg to Steve Bannon, so-called architect of the Trump...

This is the second in a series republishing our 14 most-read posts/blogs of the year to date. From day one of the Brexit result political commentator Peter Hitchens expressed bafflement as to how anyone could...

In response to Chris McGovern: Oh to be young, female and black, Young_Londoner wrote: I am irked no end by this TOXIC IDEOLOGY of 'intersectionality' and race baiting. The very fact that they themselves do...

In response to David Keighley: Lefties good, everyone else bad – welcome to Esler World, quisquose00 wrote: I am reminded of that classic interview between the late Steve Hewlett and James Harding in January 2017,...

Guess who's doing the music for Jeremy Corbyn's next birthday party? That's right, M C Hamas.

In the last issue of the Spectator Lara Prendergast asked: ‘Why are modern men obsessed with self-improvement?’ The sub-heading read: ‘Young men are being encouraged to curb their appetites – and “detox” their masculinity.’ You...

Gavin Esler, for 20 years a front-line BBC presenter and now a full-time writer and Chancellor of the University of Kent, has decided we deserve to be treated to his opinions about the world. What,...

Thanks for your comments on the Warren Zevon post, especially Pozieres for the background on Werewolves of London. This week’s featured artist is Nico, a true one-off who inspired devotion and disdain in equal measure....

What fortunate times these are to be a female university student, especially if you happen to come from an ethnic minority background. ‘Victimhood’ status is conferred automatically. Doubling up by having both attributes is,...

Starting today, over the next two weeks we’ll be republishing our 14 most-read posts/blogs of the year to date. Reviewing the list, what strikes most is the extent to which that new prophet and counter-cultural...