Hard Pounding
Toryism is hard work. Without a teleology to sustain them, Conservatives are condemned to a Promethean struggle — ensuring that good keeps its nose ahead of evil, world without end.
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Bruce Anderson
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Journalist · Commentator · Political Editor, The Spectator
The Long View — fifty years watching Britain govern itself
Toryism is hard work. Without a teleology to sustain them, Conservatives are condemned to a Promethean struggle — ensuring that good keeps its nose ahead of evil, world without end.
Read →Toryism is hard work. Burke, Hobbes, Oakeshott — the philosophy the Conservative party needs, and why the struggle continues.
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Bruce Anderson was born in Orkney in 1949 and read History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was political editor of The Spectator, wrote for the Daily Mail and The Independent, and continues to write the Spectator's Drink column.
This site is his attempt to do what the news cycle cannot: explain why things happened, and what they mean for where we are now.
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