So you think Tory Party members oppose all international aid? Read our poll and think again
There is emphatic support for the provision of emergency aid, water, sanitation and immunisation – but strong opposition to wider nation-building measures.
Jonathan Isaby: The Public Sector Rich List. How you fund nearly 3500 council staff enjoying remuneration of more than £100,000
No fewer than 130 councils had at least 10 employees earning that much with the tally at Haringey Council alone running to 68 members of staff.
Paul Abbott: The graph that shows why Hunt is right about a Seven Day NHS
The BMA is a trade union that uses public pressure to bargain for higher wages. I don’t begrudge you that. But NHS reforms have to be fair to patients, too.
If Cameron really wants expansion at Heathrow, can he fend off a by-election in Richmond Park?
The Sunday Telegraph reports that there will be an announcement within the next few weeks.
Brian Monteith: If Britain votes to leave the EU, Osborne must resign
Replacing Cameron with the chief architect of a failed renegotiation would not be tenable with the British public.
Cameron must rediscover the will to wage war
The Prime Minister’s insistence on Parliamentary consent – which he does not need – for operational decisions is crippling Britain’s capacity to act decisively.
Peter Ainsworth: The Universities need new freedoms. But the Government is offering price controls.
The “experts” charged with deciding whether Universities deserve a fee increase will be shooting in the dark. The real ones that need to be consulted are employers.
No surveillance on the scale proposed. But politicians should lead on terror warrants. The Investigatory Powers Bill.
We agonise about how much oversight the state should have over us. But government is only going where others can also go, and often do.
Reforming child benefit – and other alternatives to the tax credit cuts
Tax rises are not the only other way to find £4.4 billion. Here are two spending cuts that Osborne could do instead.
J.P.Floru: Never mind Foreign Office advice. The terrorists must not win. I’m off on holiday to Egypt
Imagine what our reaction would have been if the world had issued anti-travel advice against London after 7/7.
Iain Dale: Why are we rolling out the red carpet for Sisi – this abuser of human rights?
Plus: The Enemy Within rings me during my LBC programme. Back Hunt – defy the BMA. And: I want to buy Margaret Thatcher’s clothes.
Ashley Fox MEP: Merkel’s migrant mistake will harm Germany – and not help the refugees most in need
“Wir schaffen es” – we can do it – is the refrain we hear from Berlin, but this is falling on deaf ears in the towns facing an influx of migrants.
The State – not Big Brother, but Little Brother
A way of approaching the Investigatory Powers Bill, and much else, even before we know all the details.
Garvan Walshe: The Government’s new database of web visits will be a honeypot for Chinese hackers
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to see the opportunities the scheme offers to hostile powers.
Justin Tomlinson MP: The Disability Discrimination Act laid the foundations for equality – now we must finish the job
In our final piece marking the Act’s 20th anniversary, the Minister for Disabled People hails progress made, but argues there is more to do.