Stephen Tall: Five predictions for 2014

Okay, I’ll stick my neck out…The polling averages for the partieswill be Labour 36 per cent, Conservatives 33 per cent, Ukip 14 per cent, Lib Dems 10 per cent.

A New Year’s resolution for the Conservative Party: sort out these lefty quangocrats

More than three years after the election, why is an Ed Balls stooge on the public payroll backing a smacking ban?

Priti Patel MP: Romanians and Bulgarians – it’s Labour’s fault

Cameron is right to seek restrictions on free movement within the EU

Kate Maltby: Farage has upstaged Cameron over Syrian refugees

His announcement perfectly suits his quest to dispel UKIP’s image as the new nasty party.

How Scotland was lost – and what happened next

We report from 2023 on the consequences of a Yes vote.

Dominic Raab MP: We need more conviction MPs – and fewer political clones

That’s to say, we need proper open primaries, a robust right of recall, fewer MPs and Ministers – and the Commons controlling its own business.

The uber-modernisers should show the Conservative Party a little bit of love

If they don’t, what’s presumably their target audience is unlikely to listen to them.

Lord Risby: It’s time to replace the Levy with a true sporting right

The future of horseracing, Britain’s second-largest sport, is threatened. It’s time for radical reform to put it on a secure footing.

Andrew Lilico: Most of Britain would benefit from more immigration, not less

Much of the UK is not remotely full – more people would benefit all of us.

Tony Baldry MP on food banks: “We need to tackle the root causes of food poverty.”

A comprehensive speech on food banks, food, poverty, church work, demand, benefits & self and community help in full.

Sajid Javid MP: UK aid is securing a brighter future for the world’s children 


Rather than the outdated idea of aid as a handout, we should treat it as an investment.

James Wharton is Party members’ Politician of the Year in our Christmas survey

(Could there be a connection with his EU referendum bill?)

A Church which the world regards as weak can still tell the Christmas story

Declining membership does not mean Christianity in this country has lost its role.

David Burrowes MP: WWWD – What would Wilberforce do?

As Tim Montgomerie said, “compassionate conservatives must be the agents of rescue – not just for indebted or sick economies, but for broken people too”.

Garvan Walshe: Despite a new boycott of Israeli academia and a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus, there are signs of hope in the Middle East.

Mahmoud Abbas understands that a serious outbreak of terrorism would ruin his chances of negotiating a Palestinian State.