The real Tory leader is not a socially progressive moderniser but a throwback to a bygone age

Noel Malcolm's magisterial new edition of Hobbes's Leviathan is a fine example of why, in the 21st century, scholarship still matters

Alan Ryan’s colossal new history of political thought is an ambitious but engaging piece of scholarship

Castigating conservatives on stage is now mandatory—This House at the National doesn’t, and so succeeds