Conservative Party

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about the death of the coalition December 2012
'Conservatives have never truly been convinced by this country’s experiment with universal suffrage'

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about Margaret Thatcher April 2012
'I have no wish to speak ill of the dead, even when they are still alive'

Tory think-tanks’ tangled web February 2012
Right-leaning think-tanks play a big part in David Cameron’s Tories, writes Hartwig Pautz

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about hating the Tories May 2011
The Tories have taken on human form, which is when they’re at their most dangerous

Back to business as usual August 2010
Hugo Radice looks at the Tories' so-called Office for Budget Responsibility and its role in the coalition's cuts agenda

Conservatives 2.0 January 2010
With the Tories still setting the political agenda in the run up to the election, Alex Nunns examines what a Cameron government might actually have in store for us

2014: A Tory dystopia September 2008
David Cameron's apple-pie promises and feel-good rhetoric might sweep him to power in 2010, but there's a yawning gap between the vagueness of his words and the likely consequences of his policies. Alex Nunns takes us on a trip into the future to see how Britain might look after four years of Tory rule

iPods and ideologues October 2006
There is something old and something genuinely new about David Cameron's Conservatism. If the left is to help shape the post-Blair political climate, it will have to engage with its ideas, and not simply dismiss them, writes Oscar Reyes