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Status anxiety

It’s time to face down the greatest intellectual threat of our era (oh, and Ed Miliband)

The case for economic liberalism seemed won after the 1980s. But the old left is back

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

As you’re reading this, I will still be recovering from the dinner I’m due to attend this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies, the think tank founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher. Earlier the same day, I’m due to appear on a panel with various conservative grandees to discuss whether the other side has won.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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