Minoo Dinshaw

Minoo Dinshaw is the author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, and is writing a history of political moderates in the run-up to the 17th century British civil wars.

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Politics

Is it time to disband the Scottish Conservatives?

Any reader exercised by the fortunes of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party is necessarily interested in the vicissitudes, dramas and dilemmas of the past. In such a spirit let us cast our minds back to 2011, when two candidates vied to succeed Annabel Goldie, the well-respected leader of what was then thought to be […]

Politics

The forlorn quest for the British liberal compromise

Something about the British Liberal Party (leaving aside their less time-hallowed, increasingly vacuous Democratic epithet) inspires funny stories and unforgettable titles, from The Strange Death of Liberal England to A Very British Scandal. For a century now the Liberals, free from the cares of leading governments, have enjoyed vestigial, instinctive association with the old ‘Establishment’, […]

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