Why not abolish Labour’s four-hour A & E waiting target?
It’s only there because political gain trumped clinical priorities.
Garvan Walshe: Perfection through murder – the age-old terrorist dream. There’s nothing specifically Muslim about it.
But since this particular strain is expressed using the symbols of Islamic culture and Muslims’ identity, resisting it needs politics of exceptional subtlety.
The horrors in France have at least made clear what we are fighting for
The head of MI5 warns that we too will be attacked. But in the battle for hearts and minds, the barbarity of our opponents is an advantage.
Mark Field MP: The coming election in numbers
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.
Those TV election debates should happen. That they won’t is the broadcasters’ fault – not Cameron’s
Their proposals were and remain unfair to the Greens and the Liberal Democrats – and indeed to everyone else.
Lewis Baston: The Conservative story of support for election reform
Elevating FPTP to the status of a Tory principle would be a historical, and perhaps also a historic, mistake.
Iain Dale: Cameron’s long back, short legs and weight gain. And mine.
Plus: Charlie Hebdo and 7/7. Mildenhall’s closure: a garden city opportunity? More bad news for the Bow Group. And: I ditch the Telegraph for the Times.
Foreign students – the battleground of migration vs growth becomes the battleground of the leadership hopefuls
Already a vexed debate, the addition of May, Osborne and Boris to the mix won’t calm it down one bit.
Graeme Archer: Fat chance
There is only one way to lose weight, and I’ll reveal the secret to you.
Tom Hunt: Local homes for local people – and the crucial role of Community Land Trusts
How this new vehicle can help to break down resistance to building new homes that are desperately needed.
Mid Staffs 3) Extracts from a witness statement to the Francis Inquiry
As Labour claim that only they can be trusted with the NHS, we reproduce extracts from the statement of the son of a Mid-Staffs patient.
Daniel Hannan MEP: Nine myths about the EU
An exercise in demolition.
Henry Hill: Clegg pledges to take the fight to nationalists in Wales and Scotland
Also: UUP have grave doubts about new NI deal; Murphy’s deputy very happy to work with the SNP; and NI Conservatives choose East Belfast candidate.
Lord Ashcroft: No predictions from me – but here’s a whole gallery of snapshots
I launch today a new section of my website featuring an index of the 114 seats I have surveyed since last May.
Pritchard is cleared – now Bercow must account for his behaviour
The Speaker’s ill-judged intervention in the case is the latest in a long series of serious errors on his part.