Robert Halfon: Why?
We must explain the reasons for doing what we do – not just say what we do. Plus: ladders, CCHQ’s proposed move..and back to Education.
We’ve avoided making up our minds about how to deal with China. Hence the Huawei quandary.
Political and administrative capital has already been spent on the company. Once such investment has been made, it is only human nature to double down.
Philip Davies: Better Off Out – the campaign that shattered Westminster’s taboo about leaving the EU
The first of our mini-series on the road to Brexit recalls the watershed moment when the idea entered the political mainstream.
Harry Benson: Number 10 needs a Family Policy Unit
The costs – personal, social and economic – of family breakdown are vast and under-appreciated. This is a social justice issue.
HS2. All aboard the Ninky Nonk.
This site would scrap the scheme. But sunk political costs as well as economic ones are likely to keep this Cameron modernisation legacy project chugging on and on.
Neil O’Brien: So you want to level up. In what way? And how will you do it?
Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.
Suella Braverman: People we elect must take back control from people we don’t. Who include the judges.
The political has been captured by the legal. Decisions of an executive, legislative and democratic nature have been assumed by our courts.
Welcome to Brexit Week
It will take most of us a very long time to adjust to the dizzying turnaround of last month’s general election.
Jason Reed: Six ways of helping to open up the Conservatives to young people
The 2024 general election will come around much faster than we think. Having a youth wing that feels valued and is sufficiently energised might just swing the balance.
Bailey has three months to persuade Londoners he can cut crime
Showing that the current Mayor is failing is not enough. A strong alternative must be put forward.
Asheem Singh: Here’s how the Government can meet the challenge of mass worker automation
Think beyond ‘tax credits’ and other such technocratic reforms: what about universal basic income or three or four-day working weeks?
Where CCHQ should move to
Our readers’ top choice was the same as Number Ten’s for the Lords: York. But a good case was made for Coventry – and Warwick University.
Iain Dale: The next BBC Chairman. Andrew Neil, anyone? Robbie Gibb? Michael Portillo?
And the axeing of the Victoria Derbyshire Show suggests that the next Director General must be a transformational one.
Margot James: The evidence available does not support a total ban on Huawei
There would seem to be a difference between the rhetoric coming out of the US and the implementation of policy.
Waiting for the Remainers. “Those people were a kind of solution.”
It seemed at times as though Brexit would never happen. But we confess that up to a point we will miss Blair, Heseltine, Grieve, Miller, Maugham…