Zac Goldsmith: Forty days left in the battle for London
Khan’s reckless and unfunded spending pledges threaten the future of the Tube, and our ability to solve the housing crisis by connecting with space for new homes.
On that first Good Friday, Pilate needed “more time to think”
The power of the mob can overwhelm the power of authority – but the power of conscience is greater still.
Iain Dale: UKIP suspends Evans – and finally flips
Plus: Schengen should be suspended. The doctors’ strike is a disgrace. A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark. And: Gove could develop into a fine Conservative leader.
Altaf Hussain: It’s time to break the shackles that hold Muslim women back
The worst of the ideas associated with ‘multiculturalism’ have been pursued at a time when societal integration should have been the mantra.
Garvan Walshe: Islamist terrorism can be defeated. The struggle against communism shows us how.
Technical security, good intelligence and confidence in our values saw us through against communism. We need all of them to see the West through this again.
Jonathan Simons: In defence of making all schools academies
We should unify all schools under one simple legal status. Opponents of reform are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The Feldman Review. Drop MCAs, back federations.
The latest iteration has good bits, some bad bits – and nothing substantial to boost ownership of the Party by its members.
Rebecca Coulson: Let’s raise a glass of wine to drink as Osborne hunts for sugar to tax
When more than 30 million of us regularly drink wine, why does the pub – not the wine bar – continue to represent political expediency?
Andrew Lilico: Unless Remain wins big, the future of its Conservative supporters in government looks doomed
David Cameron’s successor will be pro-Leave – which will have profound implications for the future of the Party
Henry Hill: Tories fall behind Plaid in latest Welsh seat projections
Also: SNP shy away from new top rate of income tax despite radical rhetoric; Northern Irish Unionists and liberals avoid commemorations of 1916 rising; and more.
The Crabb and the Octopus
If yesterday’s accommodation had been reached last week, Duncan Smith wouldn’t have felt the need to resign in the first place.
Interview: Nicholas Soames compares Brexiteers to an Alsatian that must be kicked “really hard in the balls”
He regrets the resignation of IDS, condemns Liam Fox, and says the press has grotesquely exaggerated the Government’s difficulties.
Nick Timothy: What does the Conservative Party offer a working-class kid from Brixton, Birmingham, Bolton or Bradford?
Forget IDS’ Easterhouse modernisation and Osborne’s Soho modernisation. It’s time for Erdington modernisation.
Lord Ashcroft: “We can live without Europe – there is the rest of the world out there” – Belgrade and Zurich
For the last in my series of Europe-wide focus groups, we venture to two countries outside the EU.
Enough! Time to restore Cabinet Government – and make Gove Deputy Prime Minister
Both a supporter of Osborne and a backer of Brexit, the Justice Secretary’s promotion would help bring order, calm referendum passions, and protect Cameron himself.