Alexandra Jones: Osborne can get the urban benefits bill down by allowing cities to keep the savings
The housing shortage is pushing benefit bills up in the prosperous South East. Here’s how to get them down.
Comment
Neil Shastri-Hurst: Let’s take on these parasite lawyers who leech off our troops
If required, Britain’s removal, temporarily, from the European Court of Human Rights when forces are sent into conflict may be necessary.
Louise Burfitt-Dons: Five reasons Zac Goldsmith will be the next London Mayor
His looks are not the only reason he will win – but image and appearance matter.
Peter Ainsworth: Why blame Oriel for the Rhodes debacle? It was only following Ministers’ lead.
The college was acting consistently with the Government’s policy aim. But it’s alumni, not students, that are universities’ customers.
Harry Fairhead: Britain does not need a sugar tax
Steve Double called for one on this site yesterday, but available evidence suggests it would be deeply regressive and would not work.
Andrew Boff: Pensioners will lose if we divest of fossil fuels
Following this strategy could lead to weaker returns, leaving older local people, teachers, healthcare workers and so on with less in their pockets.
Steve Double: Britain needs a tax on sugary drinks
As a supporter of low taxes, I was less than enthusiastic about such proposals – but I’m now convinced that something must be done.
Lord Ashcroft: My new research into what Poles and Bulgarians make of Britain, the EU and Brexit
A new series of focus groups offers an insight into the view from ‘new Europe’.
Joe Carlebach: On Holocaust Memorial Day, I remember the tragic tale of the Jews who had served in Germany’s army
Their country rewarded them by taking the lives of their wives and children, their mothers, sisters, fathers and brothers.
Nigel Keohane: Nationalisation isn’t the answer to problems with the railways – better franchising is
Improving how we measure performance, reward success and punish failure would pay dividends.
Mark Field: Remaining in the EU is vital to our national security
In the areas of serious organised crime, counter-terrorism, money laundering and drugs and people trafficking, there is hugely fruitful EU-wide cooperation.
Andrew RT Davies: Wales needs new ideas, not Old Labour. And in a hundred days voters have the chance to make it happen.
Our group in the Assembly is articulating a clear and optimistic vision of the change Wales needs.
Chris Wilford: Don’t be complacent. Corbyn could win
If a crisis in China wrecks the economy, the angry young turn out and the Corbynites up their ground game, he might do it.
Steve Moore: Farewell, Steve Hilton. Hello, Christian Guy – and Cameron’s new social interventionism
Acting on Centre for Social Justice insights has become become central to the Prime Minister’s legacy aspirations.
Mark Pursey: A new deal with Kenya represents a significant move away from Blair’s unworldly foreign policy
Allowing Kenyan courts to try British troops for crimes committed when off duty has wide ramifications.