Tim Montgomerie

Tim Montgomerie was most recently a columnist and comment editor for The Times of London. Before that journalistic turn he was steeped in centre right politics, founding the Conservative Christian Fellowship, then the Centre for Social Justice and, just over ten years ago, ConservativeHome.com.

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Tim Montgomerie was most recently a columnist and comment editor for The Times of London. Before that journalistic turn he was steeped in centre right politics, founding the Conservative Christian Fellowship, then the Centre for Social Justice and, just over ten years ago, ConservativeHome.com.

Why Adam Smith would approve of Boris

Tim Montgomerie

05 Jul 2018

A media that doesn’t ‘do God’ isn’t worth believing in

Tim Montgomerie

10 May 2018

Will the VW fallout help get capitalism back on track?

Tim Montgomerie

08 May 2018

When did flattening opponents replace winning ascendancy as ‘the mission’? And how can democracies correct course?

Tim Montgomerie

29 Mar 2018

What do you think of our new homepage formats?

Tim Montgomerie

23 Mar 2018

Three pro-poor alternatives to Trump’s dangerous tariffs

Tim Montgomerie

14 Mar 2018

Believers in Trump

Tim Montgomerie

28 Feb 2018

Because “nothing has changed”, the eruptions of 2016 will return – but with more force

Tim Montgomerie

26 Feb 2018

Free minds: Michael Schluter – the untiring advocate of an alternative to the materialism of Left and Right

Tim Montgomerie

20 Feb 2018

The world’s two biggest business newspapers are not so different – and neither has learnt much from the votes for Brexit or Trump

Tim Montgomerie

29 Jan 2018

Rees-Mogg doesn’t want to break up Facebook or Uber but he wants ‘Big Tech’ to face same laws as traditional companies

Tim Montgomerie

19 Jan 2018

Jacob Rees-Mogg backs Trump’s tax cuts but warns him against protectionism

Tim Montgomerie

18 Jan 2018

MPs should not vote against the party manifesto, says Jacob Rees-Mogg: I vote for foreign aid budget even though it’s “idiotic”

Tim Montgomerie

17 Jan 2018

Thatcher and Reagan didn’t abolish welfare and didn’t want to. They simply wanted to ensure social assistance was affordable and was structured to support work and family

Tim Montgomerie

04 Jan 2018

Social justice depends upon spreading ownership as well earnings

Tim Montgomerie

03 Jan 2018

Did Thatcher hate “society”? Did Reagan hate government? Their biographers answer “no”.

Tim Montgomerie

02 Jan 2018

Under-reported: Brexit and Trump. (Yes, seriously).

Tim Montgomerie

30 Dec 2017

List of entries to our (continuing) #underreported series

Tim Montgomerie

29 Dec 2017

The under-reported stories of 2017

Tim Montgomerie

24 Dec 2017

Will Guardian readers approve of their Editor’s mission to understand?

Tim Montgomerie

11 Dec 2017

Don’t blame Brexit for the social policy vacuum within Theresa May’s government

Tim Montgomerie

10 Dec 2017

Why don’t we remember the victims of communism?

Tim Montgomerie

23 Nov 2017

How might the world change if oil cost just $10 per barrel?

Tim Montgomerie

22 Nov 2017

Why would Mark Zuckerberg run for the White House? He’s already more powerful than the US President…

Tim Montgomerie

17 Nov 2017

UnHerd’s focus: the significant rather than the new

Tim Montgomerie

11 Oct 2017

Liz Truss MP, the free marketeer at the heart of Britain’s Treasury, on fixing capitalism

Tim Montgomerie

05 Oct 2017

Ten things every British Conservative should dwell upon

Tim Montgomerie

02 Oct 2017

Spend an hour with the community where “no one’s happy”

Tim Montgomerie

18 Sep 2017

Launching UnHerd’s political jury

Tim Montgomerie

18 Sep 2017

Who are more dangerous? Right-wingers or left-wingers? The generations divide again

Tim Montgomerie

11 Sep 2017

Big government and big business are equally disliked

Tim Montgomerie

06 Sep 2017

Young British voters haven’t just turned away from the Conservative Party; their minds have turned away from conservatism

Tim Montgomerie

05 Sep 2017

AudioCast: Juliet Samuel investigates western capitalism’s crisis with economists and thinkers

Tim Montgomerie

21 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: When ITV was often as good as the BBC (and sometimes better)

Tim Montgomerie

18 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: Politics is important but current affairs can focus too much upon it

Tim Montgomerie

17 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: Politicians are gaining because forensic interviews are being replaced by rude interviewers

Tim Montgomerie

15 Aug 2017

The unheard story of Ida Tarbell. Our video about the journalist who tamed the big businesses of her time

Tim Montgomerie

15 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: ‘Not enough people double-check what they want to believe’

Tim Montgomerie

13 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: Listening to today’s constantly transmitting journalists, I worry they lack thinking time

Tim Montgomerie

12 Aug 2017

Jonathan Dimbleby: We all like gossip and 24/7 news distracts from what matters

Tim Montgomerie

11 Aug 2017

Audiocast: Is our news industry undermining the West?

Tim Montgomerie

21 Jul 2017

A new schedule for Radio 4’s Today programme (involving less today and a lot more yesterday and tomorrow)

Tim Montgomerie

20 Jul 2017

Donald Trump isn’t the only person who consumes too much news

Tim Montgomerie

20 Jul 2017

Biased. Negative. Remote. News industry gets low marks from Brits and Americans

Tim Montgomerie

18 Jul 2017