Tim Bale: How the Conservative Party has made the journey from the political wilderness of the 1990s to being on the cusp of power once again

Dr Tim Bale is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Sussex University and is the author of The Conservative Party from… Read more »

David Burrowes MP: Labour has failed to deliver justice for victims of crime

David Burrowes MP is a shadow justice minister. Last week Jack Straw announced the launch of the National Victims Service… Read more »

Colleen Graffy: The war against Iraq was the right decision and it was legal

Professor Colleen Graffy is Director of Global Programs and associate professor of international law at Pepperdine University in London.  She… Read more »

Fiona Hodgson: We must help the women of Afghanistan attain the equality promised for them in their constitution

Fiona Hodgson is a former Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation and is Vice President of the National Conservative Convention…. Read more »

Mark Field MP: The safeguards for “assisted dying” are illusory

Mark Field is Conservative MP for Cities of London and Westminster. Inevitably an MP’s direct personal experience has a strong… Read more »

Tim Loughton MP: Ed Balls’ pathetic response to the Edlington torture case is a tragedy

Tim Loughton MP is Shadow Minister for Children. You have to hand it to Ed Balls: he never misses an… Read more »

Rob Wilson MP: Is Brown the hero of this recession as he claims to be?

Rob Wilson has been MP for Reading East since 2005. The Prime Minister recently wrote an article in my local… Read more »

Zehra Zaidi: The winds of change blow an unsteady course in Iran

Zehra Zaidi was a Conservative candidate for the European Parliament in South West England at last year's elections and has… Read more »

Philip Booth: The Conservatives must give their proposed Swedish-style “free schools” a lot more freedom

Professor Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Conservatives’ plans for “free schools”… Read more »

Maurice Cousins: What the Conservatives must do to ensure the BNP is wiped off the electoral map

Maurice Cousins is Editor of the Nothingbritish.com blog. He has worked as a Research Assistant at Conservative Friends of Israel… Read more »

Howard Flight: The medicine needed to rebalance the economy

Howard Flight was MP for Arundel and South Downs between 1997 and 2005, is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to… Read more »

Mark Coote: We are right to back the basic tenets of the NHS, but that doesn’t mean it should escape critical reform

Mark Coote is Conservative candidate for Cheltenham. Since we’re in the death throes of this Parliament, and everyone knows there… Read more »

Tony Lodge: Why we risk getting High Speed Rail so wrong

Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and chairman of the Bow Group's Transport Committee…. Read more »

Daniel Hannan MEP: David Cameron has gone further than any previous Tory leader in proposing a shift in power from Whitehall to town halls

Today is the last chance to book a place at the ConservativeHome/ ConservativeIntelligence conference on the Tory 2010 manifesto. Contributors… Read more »

Alistair Thompson: Next time the country faces a big freeze, battalions of unemployed people should be called upon to clear the streets of snow

Alistair Thompson is Conservative candidate for West Bromwich East. He also runs Media Intelligence Partners with business partner Nick Wood,… Read more »