Columnists

Iain Dale: Neither Cameron nor Osborne give a monkey’s cuss about tax breaks for married couples. Good.

Follow Iain on Twitter. Iain also blogs at www.iaindale.com. Iain Dale presents LBC 97.3 Drivetime programme 4-8pm every weekday. Digby Jones is someone… Read more »

Adrian Hilton: The world’s greatest musician…and a first for the Ring Cycle

Adrian Hilton is a conservative academic, theologian and educationalist. He writes a Daily Mail blog and is still agitating for Ann Widdecombe’s… Read more »

Henry Hill: Falkirk Labour in ‘special measures’ after allegations of trade union infiltration

Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist and writer. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor of the non-party… Read more »

Greg Clark MP: We must tackle big business excess as well as big government excess

Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. There’s was something odd… Read more »

Brooks Newmark: Why Israel must find a means of negotiating with Hamas

Brooks Newmark MP is MP for Braintree and a member of the Treasury Select Committee When thinking about the Palestinian-Israeli… Read more »

Jesse Norman: As the election draws nearer, Miliband will be left hanging in the air like Wile E. Coyote

Jesse Norman is the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. His new biography of Edmund Burke was recently… Read more »

Iain Dale: Did Merkel bring a change of underwear to the G8?

Follow Iain on Twitter. Iain also blogs at www.iaindale.com. Iain Dale presents LBC 97.3 Drivetime programme 4-8pm every weekday. Whoever chose Lough Erne… Read more »

Kate Maltby: Let’s not become like the Tudors under Walsingham – mad with paranoia about spies and espionage

Kate Maltby is on the board of the Bright Blue think tank and edits the Bright Blue magazine. She is… Read more »

Henry Hill: Villiers to G8 protesters – let’s see you make it to remote Fermanagh.

Henry Hill is a British Conservative and Unionist activist, and author of the blog Dilettante. Follow Henry on Twitter. He is also editor… Read more »

Stephan Shakespeare: Stephen Fry & Eddie Izzard v the England Rugby Team – yes, it’s Boris v Cameron

Stephan Shakespeare is a founder and global CEO of YouGov. Follow Stephan on Twitter. People are not good at predicting their own behaviour, so pollsters are wary of drawing conclusions from questions that ask ‘what would you do if…?’

Greg Clark MP: Who Bolckow and Vaughan were – and why we need successors for them today

Greg Clark is Financial Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Tunbridge Wells. Follow Greg on Twitter. Last week, I… Read more »

Garvan Walshe: The Wars of Ottoman Succession – why we need a strategy to deal with enduring instability in the Middle East

Garvan Walshe was National and International Security Policy Adviser for the Conservative Party until 2008. Follow Garvan on Twitter. Intervene… Read more »