A Candidate’s Diary: “We’ve been doing this for 22 years,” say CCHQ. Perhaps that’s the problem…
Apparently I’m supposed to campaign in someone else’s seat, not that for which I’m actually standing.
Philip Booth: How to stop worrying and learn to enjoy deflation
Stable wages and steadily falling prices should be a welcome combination.
Owen Meredith: Lambeth Council pushes up propaganda spending by 300 per cent
Lambeth Council’s magazine has been increased in frequency to become a monthly publication.
‘Cameron’s cuties’ – where are they now?
The objectionable nickname aside, what has become of the 67 female candidates tipped for great things in 2009?
Lord Ashcroft: The people, the parties and the NHS
My new research shows why we need a proper conversation about the NHS – and why it’s politically so difficult to have one.
Theresa Villiers MP: The Stormont House Agreement offers Northern Ireland a fair and stable footing
The Northern Ireland Executive now has a chance to build a more prosperous, more stable, more united and more secure future.
On Islamist extremism, Javid’s moderation trumps Farage’s stridency
On this and much else, the son of a bus driver from Pakistan is more likely to deliver than the former stockbroker from Sevenoaks.
Ryan Bourne: Four ideas to reduce the pressure on A&E departments
Our new columnist says that we’ve heard precious few solutions from our politicians yet.
Reggie to Dessie: Does your NOTBUM look big in this?
Including the latest from the rolling future leadership hustings at the Pale, Male and stale Dining Club.
American liberals can recognise the insanity of the Eurozone, so why can’t their European counterparts do the same?
The single currency creates the conditions that allow – or require – the wrong policies to be implemented at the wrong time in the wrong places.
Labour flounder when challenged on their £50 billion black hole
Chris Leslie proposes to pay for it by increasing the cost of gun licences. Seriously.
Welcome to the crazy world of the deficit numbers…
…and also to the first of our To The Point posts: short, revision-style notes on various policy issues.
Anti-semitism rising: a poisonous alliance of prejudice and moral weakness
All too often the bigotry of Islamism is either shared or indulged by parts of the free societies it seeks to destroy.
Stephen Tall: Here we go. My predictions for the coming election.
Conservatives largest party. Labour close behind. Less bad for the LibDems that some predict. UKIP win three seats. The SNP grab over 20.
Matthew Maxwell Scott: What’s wrong with private providers delivering public services?
‘Privatisation’ is now being used as a lazy pejorative to describe any injection of much-needed competition into health and other services.