29 OCTOBER 1954, page 13

Sia,—agreed : Conservatism Today Has Its Most Promising...

1789. Agreed, too, that its prospects are in- adequately reflected in Professor Michael Oakeshott's melancholy anarchist-toryism. But does Mr. Henry Fairlie come any closer to a......

True Conservatism

SIR,-- Professor Oakeshott, so much wiser than Mr. Fairlie, saw the origin of conservatism M a state of mind rather than a set of prin- ciples, and was not surprised that the......

Thought Gaiety Had Vanished From The . Realm Of Political...

I am heartened; although I must confess that until I reached the word ' feudalism' in Henry Fairlie's article on ' True Conservatism' I was on the wrong track. Perhaps if one......