Graeme Archer: Your Star Quality
There's a line in a silly pop song I like: We are all made of stars. I like to hold… Read more »
Matthew Sinclair: To create the conditions for growth, get rid of avoidable burdens on families and businesses
Matthew Sinclair is Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance. The growth figures showing a contraction at the end of 2010 are… Read more »
Ed McRandal: Could ruling against Murdoch lead to less, not more, media plurality?
Ed McRandal is a former employee of a Conservative cabinet minister who now acts as a political adviser for a… Read more »
Andrea Leadsom MP: A breath of fresh air on banking reform
Andrea Leadsom is MP for South Northamptonshire and a member of the Treasury Select Committee. Refreshingly, there was an enlightened… Read more »
Steve Baker MP: These disappointing GDP figures give us three choices – denial, despair or deregulation
By Steve Baker MP Back in July, I argued that because most contemporary economists lack an adequate theory of capital… Read more »
Peter Bone MP: The Government whips may live to regret stifling debate on the detail of the European Union Bill
Peter Bone is Conservative MP for Wellingborough. Yesterday on ConservativeHome the Minster for Europe, David Lidington MP wrote: "This week… Read more »
Prof Tim Bale: Rachel Sylvester is wrong about Cameron’s strategy in opposition and the reasons why he failed to win an outright victory in 2010
Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Sussex University and is the author of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to… Read more »
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP: Will Southern Sudan become the world’s first new democratic nation since Kosovo in 2008?
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is Conservative MP for The Cotswolds and Chairman of the Conservative Party’s International Office. I received a phone… Read more »
John Glen MP: Afghanistan could produce a greater security threat to Britain if the post-2014 settlement is not properly implemented
John Glen is MP for Salisbury and a member of the Defence Select Committee. Last week I visited Afghanistan with… Read more »
Stephen Parkinson: Ten ways to help NO2AV in the next hundred days
Stephen Parkinson is the National Organiser (Conservatives) for the cross-party NO to AV campaign. It’s 100 days today until 5th… Read more »
Jill Kirby: Big Government is still getting in the way of Big Society – and Big Growth
Slow economic growth, painful spending cuts and fears that the Big Society won’t get off the ground. The Times (£)… Read more »
JP Floru: How to destroy personal pension rights
One of the reasons why the West has been so successful in the last two or three centuries is because… Read more »
Alex Deane: the Olympic Stadium must remain an athletics venue – whether that’s the best use for it or not
Crystal Palace WEST HAM (apologies) and Tottenham Stratford Hotspur are bidding to take possession of the Olympic Stadium at the conclusion of… Read more »
David Lidington MP: Why every Conservative can be proud of the European Union Bill
David Lidington is Minister for Europe. This week the new European Union Bill will go through intense scrutiny by MPs… Read more »
Andrew Lilico: Inflation could be the biggest political story of the next two years – we need to be preparing ourselves now
By Andrew Lilico Tricky. This week the first estimates for GDP growth for the final three months of 2010 should… Read more »