From @CLeslieMP: A question for politicians and for all of us. What is it for which you are prepared to die?
The Someone who was born at Christmas became a man who chose to die for Something – because he believed in it.
What’s Cameron’s renegotiation plan?
Open Europe points to a hole in the air.
Kate Maltby: Coriolanus – a man who really does hate the “plebs”
Kate Maltby reviews the Donmar Warehouse’s new production of Shakespeare’s play.
Justin Forsyth: Where children aren’t dreaming of a White Christmas
In Syria, temperatures may drop to minus six – and, all over the world, children are paying the ultimate price of conflict. Yet hope and progress are alive.
Tory MPs should vote by ballot on any plan to renew the Coalition after 2015
And any Coalition negotiations after 2015 should proceed at a less hasty pace than in 2010
Brady says that Conservative backbenchers will vote on any proposed Coalition deal after the next election
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee tells Andrew Gimson that David Cameron has agreed to a written protocol of which such a vote will be a part.
Stephan Shakespeare: Can the Conservatives avoid aiming for a second coalition?
If the polls in 2015 suggest a Tory majority is undeliverable, the Party’s conventional election campaigning will be thrown off balance.
Nick Gibb MP: With respect, I disagree with my committee. Prisoners should not have the vote.
Whatever your opinion about the issue, it is not one that should be decided by the ECHR – and the Commons has made its view clear.
“George Osborne is not a free market Tory: he is a corporatist” – Zac strikes back
The Richmond MP’s fight against Heathrow is a matter of principle – but also a symptom of the changing nature of MPs.
Blocking a new runway at Heathrow means running the “global race” with our shoelaces tied together
A tactical decision has caused strategic chaos – further delay will cost the British economy billions.
Lord Alton: For the Christians suffering worldwide, spare a thought this Christmas.
Families bombarded in Darfur. Worshippers massacred in Peshawar. Students slaughtered in Nigeria. Corpses found in mass graves in Syria…
Stephen Tall: Where the parties are as 2013 ends – and what they face in 2014.
Labour: Up, but economically weak. Conservatives: Down, but not out. UKIP: Fantastic year, but still vulnerable. LibDems: Flatlining, but may again hold the balance.
In West Lancashire, the spare room subsidy cut prompts 31 per cent off benefits altogether
The number affected coming off Housing Benefits has doubled in a couple of months.
Trouble at t’Mills
The Immigration Bill amendment from the MP for Amber Valley is giving Cameron a headache.
The full text of Sayeeda Warsi’s speech on the problems facing Christians worldwide
This Christmas will not be an easy one for many followers of Christ. As it approaches, the Baroness’s November speech is well worth revisiting and reading.