Plus: PMQs verdicts. Craig Oliver should look in a mirror. Our Why Vote? results. Let them eat mangos. And: Gus O’Donnell – a bit of a dick.
The hard right’s problem with the Good Right is that it positively imbues government action (of the right kind) with moral legitimacy.
Plus: Bennett’s brain fade. Why I will not put my name in for Kensington. No to Sol Campbell. Why there are no gay people in Alabama. And: arise, Lord Montgomerie!
Gove’s drive to extend to the state sector the freedoms enjoyed by fee-paying schools should be extended to allow academic selection.
A defeat to the wrong brother would surely force the mother of all rethinks.
It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.
Tim Montgomerie and Stephan Shakespeare’s new project is a radical, inventive and long-termist injection into Conservative thinking.
It’s not only lower than it used to be, but it’s declined faster than turnout among other age groups. Which prompts a question: whose politics is this?
The LibDems have long squeezed votes from the two bigger parties. Labour has squeezed LibDem ones in the polls. Will the Conservatives now gain too?
Why I disagree with the case set out on this site by its former Editor a week ago.
The text of my speech from yesterday evening’s debate on the future of the centre-right with Matthew Parris.
The next Parliament could see the failing brakes on political realignment – i.e. first past the post, incomplete devolution and the institutional grip of the big two parties – give way altogether
The think-tank reaches its tenth anniversary this year. As its recent awards ceremony showed, it does thing differently – and with great success.
The first report from our selection of fringe events at Conservative Party Conference.
The most straight forward way to achieve a Living Income for everyone would be to align the Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds with the Minimum Wage.