The EU spent £65,000 on newspaper adverts calling euroscepticism “paranoid xenophobia”

A four page feature singing the EU’s praises appeared in three newspapers yesterday – paid for by our taxes.

And Tory members’ choice for Britain’s next EU Commissioner is…Daniel Hannan

John Redwood is second, Andrew Mitchell third…and Nigel Farage scores a mere 5 per cent.

Garvan Walshe: “At his left foot he felt something warm and furry. It was Medvedev.”

In which a terrible dream is related by Viktor Yanukovich to our Foreign Affairs Columnist.

Mark Hoban MP: The cap on admissions to faith schools should be scrapped

And academies and free schools should be able to borrow.

Terry Barnes: Only a fool would write off John Key

Notwithstanding the recent poll showing of New Zealand First, the country’s coming election is still Key’s to lose.

Tory Tea Party? War on Women? Rubbish – the deselections are down to a welcome grassroots revival

Party members are more willing to exercise their rights – and we will get better MPs as a result.

For the second month running, Theresa May tops our future Tory leader poll

Once again, the Home Secretary pips Boris Johnson at the post.

Charlotte Leslie MP: The hypocrisy of Baroness Morgan over quango appointments

Blair’s political appointments to quangos were 75 per cent Labour. Now we need to depoliticise the whole system.

Rashad Ali: There’s nothing Islamic about murdering civilians

Our new report demonstrates that the claims of the extremists are at odds with traditional Muslim teaching.

Tory members have settled into remarkably consistent views about Coalition with the Lib Dems

But will that change this year? When even David Laws is agitating against the Tories, relations could turn worse.

Two out of five Tory members want a pact with UKIP

But most of these want a vote-swapping or standing down arrangement rather than a fully-blown deal or merger.

Francis Maude MP: How we are cutting trade union work on the taxpayer

The number of full time-trade union representatives is now less than a fifth of the level in 2011.

Presumably, Baroness Morgan didn’t complain when 77 per cent of politically-active public appointees were Labour affiliated

And that happened under the Coalition, too! If there has been a recent rebalancing, it’s long overdue.

Kwasi Kwarteng MP: We should be wary of intervening in polarised, vulnerable, pivotal Egypt

We should learn from being wrong-footed over developments in a country crucial to the fortunes of the wider middle east.

Anne McIntosh MP deselected by Thirsk and Malton Conservatives

The MP intends to fight on – perhaps reapplying, perhaps standing against the new Tory candidate.