Iain Dale: And the politician my next fund-raiser will be for is…
Plus: The irresistible Andrew Kennedy. Labour’s Rochester & Strood failure. Where’s a) Mo Ansar? b) Helen Grant c) The Bow Group? In praise of Andrew Neil. And: Lots of bad language
Michael Kenny: The Conservatives and EVEL. Where’s the spirit of Edmund Burke?
One of the most striking features of the current situation is the relative paucity of Tory voices considering constitutional change in this kind of organic and evolutionary way.
Thus spake Miliband: less a relaunch, more a return to the same, old, failing themes
As Jeeves wisely advised, “You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
Jeremy Hunt, quiet reformer
His changes are taken straight from the Gove playbook, since they deploy the same two main tools: transparency and accountability.
Interview: McLoughlin – “If it wasn’t for the Conservative Party, nobody would know who Carswell and Reckless were”
Patrick McLoughlin, Transport Secretary and former miner, on UKIP, HS2, the Euston Arch, Heathrow and the desirability of getting ahead with one’s Christmas shopping.
What’s wrong with Hampstead? In defence of Miliband.
As it happens, I live only a few hundred yards from his house.
Artificial intelligence isn’t actually intelligent, but it will change the world anyway
AI isn’t about creating a mind on a microchip, but increasing the sophistication of the impersonal computers we’ve already got.
Exploring a defector’s dilemmas
What might be the considerations competing in the mind of a would-be defector be as he perches uncomfortably on the green benches or stews in his office?
Osborne poised to take up the ConHome manifesto proposal for a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Matthew Hancock briefs the Daily Mail as he prepares to unveil a new National College for Onshore Oil and Gas.
From Reggie to Dessie: What Walters, Pierce, Maguire & Oakeshott were up to with Osborne’s cat
There is still some fallout from the Away Day. The cabaret is always toe-curlingly embarrassing – and this year’s was no exception.
George Grant: Britain’s poor can do without five more years of Labour’s benevolence
The fundamental difference between us is that Labour seek to help people in poverty; the Conservatives seek to help people out of poverty.
The battle for Fleet Street’s vote
While Labour attack the press, Javid, May and Grayling are wooing them with hard policy.
Lord Ashcroft: UKIP lead by 12 points in Rochester and Strood – but what will happen next May?
Of those naming a party, 36 per cent of Rochester voters said they would probably vote Conservative at the general election, 35 per cent UKIP and 21 per cent Labour.
Yesterday in the Commons. A glimpse of life under a May leadership?
The fracas also highlighted once again the tensions between the Home Secretary and the Chief Whip.
Theresa May MP: Westminster’s system of scrutiny for European legislation is “broken”
What the Home Secretary wrote in Opposition in 2007.