There needs to be a paradigm shift in policy and culture. Our state should work to keep us healthy and allow us as individuals to be responsible for our actions.
For all its compromises and ambiguities, it is the only practicable means to hand of giving the province something approaching normalcy.
When ministers meet at Chequers this week, they must find a solution to the seemingly intractable question of whether to align or diverge from the EU.
A century on from the granting of Votes for Women we should honour our manifesto pledge to deliver Votes for Life. A new Private Member’s Bill offers the opportunity.
But a vote on some form of customs union is coming. Might it become a confidence issue?
She will, today, talk of “identify[ing] ways to help young people make more effective choices when they leave school”. This could be promising.
After years of defence cuts and maybe more to come, we must ask whether the Armed Forces are properly equipped to keep Britain safe.
His first major interview returns policy to the spirit of May’s original education ideas, with new faith schools and expanded selective ones as part of the mix.
Any deal that leaves the UK aligned with EU rules or which deprives us of control over our trading future would not be honouring the referendum result.
We feel a commission, a working group, an inquiry coming in – to look these inconsistencies, accidents of history and quirks, to see if some tidying-up is required.
We don’t need a European solution; we need a global solution. We must think independent Anglosphere, not dependent Eurosphere.
Even if the DUP and Sinn Fein could persuade their communities to back the compromises necessary, they have not done so.
Plus: Johnson’s EU speech. Turnbull’s sex ban. Horror in America. Change in South Africa. And: order your popcorn for this weekend’s UKIP conference.
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At the Kimblewick Hunt in the Chilterns, they can see that now is not the time to try to reverse it.