The Conservative Woman

THIS weekend brought more news about how Remain parties and high profile Remainers plan to work together, come a general election, to maximise the chances of a Remain majority in our next Parliament. The Times...

T S ELIOT judged it to be a ‘masterpiece’. Hemingway concluded: ‘It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.’ They...

LONDON was blockaded by a major protest yesterday but there was not the slightest disruption. No one sat for hours in a traffic queue. No one was late getting to work. At least that...

RUMOURS that the government is planning to axe inheritance tax have been fuelled by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, who said it was ‘particularly unpopular’ (not a high bar) because in effect it taxes people...

JOHN Humphrys really does have a capacity to get it wrong. Last week the recently retired broadcaster launched a second salvo at the BBC. Not content with castigating it for the Brexit bias to...

BEFORE the climate demonstrations by impressionable children last month, Scotland’s largest teaching union, the EIS, wrote to all 32 Scottish local authorities urging them not to penalise pupils who skipped school. The climate brigade are...

HERE is part of Professor Dawkins's Diary in last week's Spectator magazine: ‘I hate the very idea of a referendum. Referendums are capable of naming a ship “Boaty McBoatface”. We are a parliamentary democracy....

In response to Paul Wood: Lay off the F-word, Lady Hale, David wrote: When judges publicly state political positions, as Lady Hale has done by letting it be known that she is a feminist, you know...

In response to Ollie Wright: Why is the Tate so keen to rubbish Britain? The_greyhound wrote: I see nothing in Britain's past to apologise or atone for. Perhaps our puling slack-mouthed critics would have preferred the Belgians...

At this point I no longer care how anyone voted in the EU referendum. Having lived through Australia’s loss of its biggest trading partner in 1973 when the UK joined the EEC, I know...