Stephen Tall: Who could lead the Tories and LibDems after 2015?
Clue: The Conservative contender is a force of nature, and the Lib Dem one a cheeky chappie – and both are social liberals.
Lord Flight: We need a recovery based on savings, investment and exports – not consumption
The post-2010 Government will need to take major and radical decisions and actions to get the balance of the UK economy right.
Sharon Shoesmith is not the only one to blame
Ed Balls “Off with her head!” may have brought no regrets to him, but it has cost the country several hundred thousand pounds more than if normal capacity procedures had been followed
Nearly four out of five Tory members want Mitchell back in the Cabinet
That’s 58 per cent before the next election and 20 per cent after it.
Priti Patel MP: Labour. The party of gimmicks, scaremongering, opportunism, taxes, debt – and McLuskey
Whether it is on energy prices, education, the criminal justice system or industrial relations, Labour remains entrenched on the side of vested interests and unions.
Fuel duty or road charging: which is the least worst option?
As Adam Smith recognised more than two hundred years ago, there are some forms of public good that only the state can provide. The road network for example.
Ben Boult: How to make a British Bill of Rights work for everyone
Were the Joint Committee on Human Rights to take a key role, the differing views of those who stress human rights and Parliamentary supremacy could be reconciled.
Peter Franklin: Ten top tips for winning an open primary
Reflections on yesterday’s Conservative candidate selection in Tonbridge and Malling
Karen Lumley MP: The West Midlands is leading Britain in a great manufacturing revival
Last year, we became a net exporter of cars for the first time since 1976 – and exports from the region are up by almost a third.
The T-800 is coming for your job, not your scalp
If you want to thrive in the land of the robots, then best that you have the flexible, adaptable skills that they do not.
Work: Have immigrants “taken our jobs”?
The evidence suggests little overall effect on unemployment or pay – but it’s a different story when it comes to the lowest skilled Britons.
Exclusive: We reveal the names of the longlisted candidates in Croydon South
Find out who the runners and riders are to succeed Richard Ottaway.
The problem with HS2
If the rationale for a plan keeps changing – and figures and calculations with it – voters should smell a rat.
Peter Hoskin: A film that isn’t about Greece then or Greece now, but political tyranny everywhere
For the latest installment of ConservativeHome’s Film Club, we look at Costa-Gavras’s 1969 political thriller ‘Z’.
Ed Holmes: How to stop the long-term unemployed from falling out of the labour market
Smaller and specialist providers should be funded upfront