Javid: “I read the courtroom scene from ‘The Fountainhead’ to my future wife!”
The Culture Secretary was speaking at the launch of my new film society.
Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives enjoy a six point lead in my first poll of 2015
Plus: I have decided to prompt for UKIP when asking about voting intention; and are voters starting to feel the recovery?
Final four announced for the Braintree selection
After the process was cancelled before Christmas, the search for a candidate is now back on.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: It’s time for the Islamic world to support free speech – and repeal blasphemy laws
The reality is that jihadists have claimed more lives in Muslim-majority countries than anywhere else.
Andrew Dunn: My new research that challenges the left-wing consensus about jobless people and work
Large numbers of unemployed clamaints remain on benefits because they are too choosy in the jobs they are willing to do.
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.