WATCH: The ConHome Manifesto 6) A new deal on immigration

Paul Goodman argues there’s been plenty of talk about immigration, but not enough action.

Germans bearing gifts

Syriza’s breakthrough looks to ramp up the Great Euro Game of destitution and extremism. Here’s what Cameron should do post-May if still in office.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Remembering the Holocaust is as important as ever

As the Hitler’s atrocities pass from living memory into history, it is more important than ever to learn the lessons they teach us.

Stephen Hammond MP: Why we need a Department for Infrastucture

It would bring coherence and skill to project implementation and management – and there are plenty of others to be abolished or amalgamated.

Most defections make no difference

Those which turn out to matter usually involve more than the man who undertakes them. Does the latest one really fall into this category?

Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don’t knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave

The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.

Clegg: lame duck or dead parrot? Why his weakness makes a second coalition unlikely.

And much will depend on whether the Liberal Democrats could give either major party enough votes for a sustainable majority.

Andrew R T Davies: A blow to social mobility as Welsh Labour plan to scrap the Right to Buy

Health spending – cut it. An Airport – nationalise it. Appoint a Business Minister – better make it one that likes Karl Marx.

Hanging tough on the question of debates is paying off for Cameron

The Greens are eating into Labour’s vote share already – and now Plaid Cymru and the SNP will take the stage to hurt Miliband even further.

WATCH: The ConHome Manifesto 5) A Northern Infrastructure Fund

Mark Wallace makes the case for better links between our northern cities – funded by the tax from northern shale gas, and the money saved by scrapping HS2.

The breakup of the Coalition is coming. But when? And how?

Could it last until the election campaign? Or will it shatter on Budget Day? We look for answers.  

Iain Dale: So you support plain packaging. Call yourself a Conservative?

Plus: Here comes Syriza. The Teflon Greens. Mystic Dale v Nick Clegg. The Political Book Awards. And: There’s no such thing as an illegal war.

Jeremy Brier: The cause of the Jews is also your cause

We are in the frontline of a struggle against Islamist extremism that threatens us all.

The world’s most successful conservative? Ten observations about New Zealand’s John Key

He’s increased his vote share at each election. How does he do it?

Downing Street mulls involving party members in any Coalition endorsement

It tells this site that “the wider party would have to be involved”.