Highlights

The Northern Ireland Executive now has a chance to build a more prosperous, more stable, more united and more secure future.

On this and much else, the son of a bus driver from Pakistan is more likely to deliver than the former stockbroker from Sevenoaks.

Our new columnist says that we’ve heard precious few solutions from our politicians yet.

Including the latest from the rolling future leadership hustings at the Pale, Male and stale Dining Club.

The single currency creates the conditions that allow – or require – the wrong policies to be implemented at the wrong time in the wrong places.

Chris Leslie proposes to pay for it by increasing the cost of gun licences. Seriously.

…and also to the first of our To The Point posts: short, revision-style notes on various policy issues.

All too often the bigotry of Islamism is either shared or indulged by parts of the free societies it seeks to destroy.

Conservatives largest party. Labour close behind. Less bad for the LibDems that some predict. UKIP win three seats. The SNP grab over 20.

‘Privatisation’ is now being used as a lazy pejorative to describe any injection of much-needed competition into health and other services.

The Culture Secretary was speaking at the launch of my new film society.

Plus: I have decided to prompt for UKIP when asking about voting intention; and are voters starting to feel the recovery?

After the process was cancelled before Christmas, the search for a candidate is now back on.

The reality is that jihadists have claimed more lives in Muslim-majority countries than anywhere else.

Large numbers of unemployed clamaints remain on benefits because they are too choosy in the jobs they are willing to do.