ConservativeHome's Dictionary

Zero-sum game

A social or economic situation where someone's gain is at the expense of another person.

Zero tolerance

By refusing to tolerate minor crimes - like vandalism and public drunkenness - a well-policed community can stop petty criminals jumping on the conveyor belt to more serious crimes.

Worldview

A worldview is a comprehensive way of seeing and understanding the world.

War on terror

The war on terror is most properly thought of as a race against terrorists determined to find and deploy weapons of terrible destruction against civilisation.

Vigorous virtues

Virtues - like courage, ambition and creativity - that drive a society towards wealth creation and its own defence.

Utopianism

The profane idea that paradise can be built on earth.

Anglosphere

The English-speaking nations who share a system of law, a commitment to free market economics and a proactive approach to the war on terror.

Freedom

A free society needs virtue if it is not to become anarchic. Virtue is best sustained by religious faith. And authentic faith only flourishes when people are free to practice religion.

Intelligent design

The idea that much of nature reveals the work of an intelligent creator.

Small is beautiful

Conservatives believe that the best institutions operate on a human, people-sized scale.