Edward Dawson: Can Garden Cities really come in from the cold?
The history of these cities or new towns is replete with problems – and people tend not to like them.
Tax cuts versus defence versus austerity – Conservatism’s conflicting priorities
Can we afford proper defences and tax cuts, all at a time when we still have a £100 billion deficit?
Andrew Lilico: “British values” is a PC way of saying “Anglican values” or it’s nothing at all
We should not treat all religions equally. Equality is, yet again, the enemy of good policy.
Iraq: the limits of western responsibility. The limits of western power.
It was the Arab Spring of 2010/11 that triggered today’s troubles in Iraq – not the 2003 invasion, for all its faults.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP: Why Britain must make it more appealing for the Chinese to apply for visas
Not to make it easier to get one – but to make the paperwork more simple.
Allan Mallinson: What on earth has happened to “the Party of Defence”?
Photo-opportunities with Angelina Jolie are no substitute for military preparedness.
Icarus Miliband gets burned by The Sun
By laying into the red-top, then trying to woo it, the Labour leader has succeeded in annoying everyone.
Personal attacks ought to stop, but the nature of Westminster means that they won’t
The Fiona Cunningham case shone more light on our politics’ culture of briefing and counter-briefing. Despite Cameron’s promises, it’s never really gone away.
Iain Dale: Let’s send pro-reform, bone-dry Theresa Villiers to Brussels
Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.
Lewis Baston: The national election that saw the highest Conservative vote in the age of democracy
The 1979 saw the election of a group of Tories to the European Parliament whose enthusiasm for the European project is part of a vanished age.
Joe Storey: New Labour is still a danger
Voters should remember the damage that the Blair and Brown-led governments are responsible for.
An answer from Bob Neill: he will use his Private Member’s Bill for an in/out referendum
But will the Government use the Parliament Act to force it past Labour and Lib Dem peers?
“No, thanks” – Better Together deploys politeness to save the Union
The unionists’ new slogan seeks to neutralise the debate and reassure voters intimidated by Yes rhetoric.
Team Osborne – feared, admired, and sometimes enraging for other Conservatives
As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his Mansion House speech, here are the people who have stood by him ever since 2005
Chloe Smith MP: How to turn the Conservative Party into Generation Y’s natural home
By 2025, GY and younger will be a competitive proportion of the electorate. We must appeal to them.