4.45pm Robin Simcox on Comment: How can a supposed liberal defend a school teaching social segregation, hatred of non-Muslims and religious apartheid?
2.30pm Local government: Boris still 3% ahead in Mayor of London poll
2.15pm Local government: The Big Society must mean a better deal for small charities
11.30am Elizabeth Truss MP on Comment: The Government’s proposals on the English baccalaureate (EBACC) and the curriculum are the most important element of our education policy
11.15am Robert Halfon MP on Comment: Three definitions of the Big Society
ToryDiary:
ToryDiary update: The man tipped to be Cameron's new head of strategy argued that supporting the €uro would be the ultimate modernisation
Julian Wolfson and Tim Bond on Comment: A two term growth agenda
Corey Dixon: William Hague must make clear that economic engagement with Russia does not mean sidelining human rights issues
Local government: Transparency in action in Northumberland
Five top Coalition achievements
> The above messages appear on the literature being distributed by the Conservative candidate in Barnsley Central.
Gazette: Samuel Coates set to begin TA tour in Afghanistan
Cameron will say today that the Big Society is his "mission in politics" – FT
Quarter of RAF trainee pilots to be sacked in defence spending cull
"Up to 100 student pilots will be told the news on Tuesday with some of them only a few hours away from becoming fully qualified to fly fighters, helicopters and transport aircraft. The cuts will mean the waste of an estimated £300million already paid for training the pilots, plus the cost of redundancies. The training of RAF pilots can cost up to £4million a man." – Telegraph
"The full cost of military equipment being scrapped as a result of the Government’s defence review will be more than £12 billion, The Times can reveal… [This includes..] the value of fighter jets, spy planes, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and other equipment being disposed of to cut costs." – Times (£)
Council cuts 'put more pressure on the NHS'…
"The NHS will have to deal with the fall-out from some of the cuts being announced by councils, experts predict. Health bosses, public health chiefs and charities told the BBC the close working relationship between the two meant consequences were "inevitable"." – BBC
…but away from the BBC, Fleet Street is focusing on waste and excess in local government:
Illegal immigrants claiming tens of millions in benefits
"Tens of thousands of workers with no right to be in Britain have been claiming benefits thanks to an extraordinary loophole in the law. Ministers have discovered that Labour allowed 155,000 illegal immigrants to qualify for sickness benefits and maternity pay. Government sources put the cost to the public purse at ‘tens of millions of pounds’." – Daily Mail | Express
Archbishop Sentamu's warning on plan to let gays 'marry' in church: they should not trump rights of clerics – Daily Mail
Against Gay Marriage – Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail
Norman Lamont makes the case against AV…
"Under AV we would have permanent coalitions and institutionalised breaking of election promises. Politicians, not voters, would decide which parties were to form the government. In Britain, we don’t have to demonstrate in public squares. People vote and the government is out. AV would make it more difficult for voters to summon up the removal van and kick the government out. AV would change the nature of elections, which would become high on rhetoric, low on policies. Party manifestos would become meaningless, full of “aspirations”." – Lord Lamont in The Times (£)
…and for a 40% turnout threshold in the referendum – Yesterday's ToryDiary
Greenpeace and WWF issue warning about independence of the UK's Committee on Climate Change (CCC) – Guardian
The current system for disabled drivers is abused and the genuninely very disabled need better protection – Boris Johnson in The Telegraph
Courts are dealing with at least ten key human rights battle every week since controversial new laws were introduced a decade ago – Telegraph
Fury at Brian Souter's £½m SNP election pledge
"A new £500,000 donation from bus tycoon Brian Souter to the SNP has prompted questions over his growing influence over Alex Salmond's government… Labour claims the SNP changed its policy on bus regulation after Mr Souter's previous donation in 2007, while the Greens say his views on homosexuality – he led a campaign in 2000 to retain Clause 2A, which banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality – make him an unsuitable backer for the Nationalists." – Scotsman
And finally for Valentine's Day… Zac Goldsmith is most fanciable male MP, Luciana Berger is most fanciable woman in Commons – Mirror