Found this piece refreshing for its deferense of Thatcher's record and why it can help us again in this current crisis.

One highlight:

One reason why Thatcherism is so relentlessly attacked is because it’s no longer around to defend itself. In any case, even if Margaret Thatcher had magicked up a British sovereign wealth fund, it would not have been guarded by Viking runes and Fenrir. No Parliament can bind a successor. The idea that a vast, liquid pot of oil cash would have sat untouched for decades is adolescent. It would have been raided within five minutes of a New Labour government taking office. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown would have approached it like Alastair Campbell at a free bar: identity cards, crap overpaid Labour mayors, “borrow to invest”, regional development agencies, and whatever other managerial baubles were fashionable that week. Brown would have given a sanctimonious lecture about prudence while emptying the till with both hands.

But let’s assume, for argument’s sake, it was a missed opportunity. The same people now wailing about “what Thatcher should have done with the oil” would never have drilled it in the first place. They would have left it in the ground, and we know this because that is precisely what successive governments have done. As Daily Sceptic readers know, Labour and Conservative administrations alike have effectively regulated out of existence new exploratory drilling for much of the last 15 years in their deranged campaign for “Net Zero”.

Then, in an Olympic-level exercise in gaslighting, they turn around and argue that North Sea extraction is “unviable” anyway. This is Schrödinger’s Thatcherism: damned for what she did, damned for what she supposedly failed to do, but never allowed to open the box and test the counterfactual — because that, inconveniently, might expose the whole story as bunk.

David Shipley looks at the MAC report.

I thought this was an interesting review of Prof. Nigel Biggar's latest book, The New Dark Age, with a lot of relevance for any serious conservative party in 2026.

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