Heather Blake: If human rights are to be at the heart of British foreign policy, Singapore’s treatment of British journalist Alan Shadrake must be roundly condemned

Heather Blake is the UK director for Reporters Without Borders and a Commissioner and Rapporteur for the Conservative Human Rights… Read more »

Adeela Shafi: The media must stop tarnishing whole communities with one brush in its reporting of the horrific sex gangs

Adeela Shafi was Conservative candidate for Bristol East at the 2010 general election and is Lecturer in Psychology at the… Read more »

One of the best-dressed men in Britain works in Downing Street – and so does one of the worst-dressed in the world

By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday afternoon Tim reflected on Conservative politicians' looks. Today I highlight their sartorial choices. GQ magazine has… 7 January 2011 at 4:58 pm | 6 comments

Charlie Elphicke MP: The number and cost of quangos should be reduced – and they must be banned from lobbying altogether

Charlie Elphicke is Conservative MP for Dover and a member of the Public Administration Select Committee. Lobbying by quangos should… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Thoughts on the European Commission proposals for imposing losses on bank bondholders

By Andrew Lilico Avid readers of mine (you know who you are) will be aware that the EU's proposals yesterday… Read more »

Owen Polley: The Conservative Party should be standing candidates for the Northern Ireland Assembly

Owen Polley lives in Belfast, where he campaigned for the Conservatives and Unionists at the general election. He blogs at… Read more »

“Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it”

Tim Montgomerie Look away now if you only like deadly serious politics because I'm grateful to Stumbling and Mumbling for… Read more »

Catherine Hakim: The Conservative Party should ignore discredited feminist myths and wake up to the fact that the gender war is over

Catherine Hakim is a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, whose pamphlet, Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine:… Read more »

Lord Bates: If the US is to lead the global economy out of recession, Barack Obama would do well to heed the advice of Abraham Lincoln

By Lord Bates Spending Christmas with family in Texas, I was concerned by the anaemic state of the local economy… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: The economy isn’t a “moderniser” issue

In the current debate between mainstream and liberal conservatives, there are those on the liberal conservative side (doubtless some of… Read more »

Jill Kirby: A Cleggeron Coupon? Lessons from history

Is next week's contest in Oldham and Saddleworth a "coupon election" in all but name? David Cameron may not have… Read more »

Daniel Hamilton: Georgia’s claims about the South Ossetia conflict have been vindicated

My friend and fellow ConservativeHome contributor Carl Thomson recently wrote an interesting piece on this website about getting the Anglo-Russian… Read more »

Charlie Elphicke MP: Does small business really matter?

Discussion of a “growth agenda” for the UK has seen dividing lines drawn between backers of big business and supporters… 5 January 2011 at 2:56 pm | 33 comments

Ben Howlett: How Conservative Future has been re-energised since the election of a new National Executive

Ben Howlett has been chairman of Conservative Future for 100 days. Over the last 100 days since our election, my… Read more »

Matthew Elliott: United against AV

Matthew Elliott is Campaign Director of No2AV. During the Christmas holidays, the cross-party NO to AV campaign announced the names of… Read more »