21 SEPTEMBER 2002, Page 51

Should lain Duncan Smith turn to a twenty-year-old for inspiration?

It might be a better idea than listening to some in his party, especially those who would reduce conservatism to a libertarianism without objective standards (if anything goes, what, then shall we conserve?).

It is exactly twenty years ago this month that the first issue of The Salisbury Review appeared.

Ever since, it has provided a stimulus to conservative thinking across a wide range of topics, and Riven expression to a Tory tradition that is larger and older than either economic or social liberalism.

The twentieth anniversary issue shows the breadth and depth of conservative thought, and includes:

Roger Scruton in search of Central Europe, Michael Wharton on Colonel Sibthorp, PD James on Friendship, Ian Fleming on the Dieppe Raid, Vladimir Bukovsky on the European Union, Alfred Sherman on The Salisbury Review, and Duncan Fallowell on Nirad Chauclhuri.