With the Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures, conservative thinkers and ideas will finally have a space at the University of Oxford.

It takes a lot of trauma to invoke a historic naval defeat such as Trafalgar as a metaphor for a diplomatic reversal.

There is no indication that David French has ever visited Hungary, but the idea that leading figures of an American political movement in which he no longer possesses even a crumb of influence or credibility feels affinity for that country clearly angers and frightens him.