Alex Morton: Homes – localist policies deliver houses

Those who argue planning reform is unnecessary pave the way for statist proposals

Lottie Dexter: Jobs – why we need them, how to get them

Women, young people, the long-term unemployed and older workers suffered in particular during the recession

Savings – now the Government should make them worthwhile

Millions have stopped putting money aside, because they have been punished for doing the right thing.

Lloyds – the taxpayer-owned bank whose TV ads moan about “right-wing politics”

Evidently they don’t want our business.

David Cameron must take up the Politics of Yes

The Prime Minister can best beat Miliband by proposing a positive vision of what Britain should be.

Kate Maltby: A play that asks whether we care enough about our troops

This is a brilliant, dazzling work about how we treat our soldiers in a time of changing technology.

Charlie Elphicke MP and Chris Pincher MP: Shale gas – good for consumers, the environment and energy security

A UK Shale Gas fund, developed over time, could provide a sustainable financial legacy for future generations

In defence of ‘Crap Towns’ (the book not the architecture)

Though it might not say so directly, ‘Crap Towns’ is, in fact, a plea for beauty – as something that should be present everywhere, not just in the enclaves of the rich.

Affordable and reliable: the Conservatives can only defeat Miliband’s energy proposal with a viable plan of their own

We need energy that is both affordable and reliable. Labour offer one at the expense of the other – we must offer both.

The Conservatives must mean business

There is a golden chance for Cameron after Miliband’s speech yesterday to show that lower taxes and less regulation are the route to better public services, lower energy bills and more homes

Mark Field MP: If trust in the City is to be restored, ethics and self-interest must work together

I am certainly not advocating the return of “light touch regulation”. But in its place has come a Government that guarantees against financial failure.

Labour wants a return to the 1970s: Britain can do better than Miliband

So far the leader of the Labour Party has been a chrysalis. Today he emerged, arguing the best way to solve problems is centralised control.

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Garvan Walshe: Don’t be fooled by Rouhani

Iran’s President simply speaks softly. But the words he whispers are those any goon’s sophisticated front-man: “You’d rather deal with me than with the menacing meathead behind me, wouldn’t you?”

Stephen Tall: How Germany’s result could tempt me to vote Tory in 2015

Cameron could immediately make an offer to the Lib Dems to join him once again in what would “this time, be a liberal Conservative government, a One Nation Coalition”.