HS2. All aboard the Ninky Nonk.
This site would scrap the scheme. But sunk political costs as well as economic ones are likely to keep this Cameron modernisation legacy project chugging on and on.
Welcome to Brexit Week
It will take most of us a very long time to adjust to the dizzying turnaround of last month’s general election.
Where CCHQ should move to
Our readers’ top choice was the same as Number Ten’s for the Lords: York. But a good case was made for Coventry – and Warwick University.
Waiting for the Remainers. “Those people were a kind of solution.”
It seemed at times as though Brexit would never happen. But we confess that up to a point we will miss Blair, Heseltine, Grieve, Miller, Maugham…
Jess Phillips, Masked Singer?
Her future is 1) Toil away on Labour’s front bench, or 2) Develop a manifesto from the backbenches. Or 3)…
Today, we publish our latest guide to the new generation of Tory Parliamentarians
This intake represents over a quarter of all Conservative MPs. It will have a huge impact on the outlook and culture of Parliament as a whole.
This curious contest for the Chairmanship of the 1922 Committee
Conservative backbenchers must choose today between two candidates who at first glance at least have much in common.
The Sussexes – out. Not half in and half out. The Queen acts swiftly and effectively.
We wrote last week that “one cannot fudge membership of the working Royal Family”, and Buckingham Palace clearly thinks so too.
The Queen’s Speech in York, Cummings-style
We suggest that the state coach wends its way from Buckingham Palace to York along the slow lane of the A1 – via Finchley Road, Brent Cross and the Doncaster by-pass.
The Commons should vote on the Big Ben bing bang bong bung
A vote by MPs is the only sensible way to resolve the matter one way or the other – assuming that the £500,000 target is reached.
Exclusive. No 10 says CCHQ will move out of Matthew Parker Street – and into the Midlands or North. It wants your ideas about a venue.
It adds that “there will be a small office in London but maybe up by King’s Cross.”
How to leave the Royal Family – as working members of it, at any rate
The principle behind any settlement for the Sussexes should be simple: one can’t be half in and half out.
Scruton and the Tories. “A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country.”
Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.
How to help hold those new Red Wall seats. Introducing the Midlands and Middlesbrough masterclass.
The Whips and CCHQ should utilise the experience of Bretherton, Bradley, Clarke, Hughes and Rowley – all of whom won Labour seats in 2017.
Does Downing Street want Today to have no tomorrow?
The sustained Ministerial boycott of the programme is evidence of the waning power of traditional media.