If local people can gain from shale, why not from housing?
It’s time to revive the Alex Morton scheme for local compensation for the construction of new homes.
Priti Patel MP: Why we need to introduce a new Victims’ Law
Such a law would strengthen the new code of practice that followed my 2011 Bill.
David Skelton: To make the market work for everyone, we must confront vested interests
We should stand up aggressively for competition and against monopoly, and remedy market failure in housing, banking and the privatised utilities.
Spare Room Subsidy cut helps bring empty homes back into use
Over 100 bedsits that had been boarded up for years are brought back into use.
Half of Conservative backbenchers want to leave the EU (or so their action suggests)
Unless, that is, some of the 96 who signed the letter demanding a Commons veto didn’t grasp what they were signing.
Grayling should announce that a majority Conservative Government would quit the ECHR
It wouldn’t solve all Cameron’s problems with Europe, but it would be a bit of a start.
Sunder Katwala: The national mood for 2014? Keep calm and muddle on.
Tories are cheerful, socialists gloomy, the Scots expect to vote No…and UKIP supporters expect England to be knocked out in the first round of the World Cup.
Marc Glendening: No, the EU didn’t help to prevent a Third World War
Indeed, its stagnant centralism and bureaucracy is more likely to inflame extremism and violence than prevent them.
Mitchell in numbers
If David Cameron believes that the former Cabinet member is innocent, he should bring him back.
Robert Halfon MP: The scandal of hidden utility bill charges
Conservatives should not be shy of exposing corporates when they are plainly ripping off the consumer.
Sir Andrew Green: The sorry story of the BBC and immigration
Nick Robinson’s programme was a reminder of the corporation’s continuing failure to cover the subject properly.
Zahawi should be free to speak his mind
Members of the Policy Board aren’t members of the Government.
Iain Dale: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye…
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Peter Cuthbertson: Vicky Pryce – and the necessity of tougher sentencing
Her book “Prisonomics” shows sympathy only for the perpetrators of crime, not its victims.
Downing Street needs an Office for the Elimination of BS
Too many bad ideas see the light of day, when they should be killed off unceremoniously.