Justin Tomlinson MP: Now is the time for a graduated driving licence
Each day, four families must face the news that their child has been killed or seriously injured in a car accident. We need bold reform to bring this figure down.
Helen Goral: Preserving her legacy. The Margaret Thatcher Statue Project
I would like to encourage all ConHome readers to help us give the great lady a lasting legacy in her home town.
John O’Sullivan: Windfall taxes. A bad idea then. And a bad idea now.
I was surprised by the degree to which Sir John Major has made my old article topical again. So, with only the most minor of editing changes, here it is.
Peter Smith: What do we do about prisoner voting?
MPs have a choice: amend the blanket ban or defy the European Court of Human Rights. A constitutional show-down is almost inevitable.
Lord Ashcroft: The touching war poems that inspired the heroes of the skies
John Moseley also had a treat for me in the form of two poems written by Philip A. Nicholson, a fellow British airman but also a little-known war poet.
Alistair Thompson: The shameful failure of the West over the ethnic cleansing of Eastern Christians
Unless the West starts taking this problem seriously, such figures as President Vladimir Putin will exploit this policy and moral vacuum.
Florian Bay: Coal gave us an advantage over France. Shale could do the same today.
It was only the arrival of cheap oil from overseas and the development of nuclear energy that allowed France to transcend the limitations of geography and geology.
Mark Prisk MP: Government needs radically to change the way it treats the Commons
Business as usual isn’t working. We need to realise that the Commons today is more like the US Congress of the 1980s and early 1990s – and act accordingly.
Philip Booth: Are teachers qualified to teach? Is Nick Clegg qualified to call himself a liberal?
State school can have class teachers teach modern languages who have absolutely no experience speaking the language at all. According to Nick Clegg it is okay.
Adam Afriyie MP: I won’t be bullied out of moving my EU referendum amendment
While I am very sensitive to the concerns of other MPs, I fully intend to continue and take this amendment to a vote on the 8 November.
Luke Springthorpe: Seven problems with Help to Buy 2
Help to Buy is really about one thing: ramping up consumer spending by way of re-leveraging the economy with more consumer debt.
Henry Smith MP: We’re right to seek to curb EU benefit tourism
The Commission’s claims are misleading because in many cases claims made by foreign migrants are impossible to audit.
Michael Burnett: Europe – Those whom the gods wish to destroy…
Those in our party who are calling for an early referendum risk undermining the Prime Minister’s clear theme for re-negotiation of “good for Europe/good for Britain”.
Lord Lexden: 50 years ago today, Lord Home became Prime Minister
How a peer reached 10 Downing Street for the last time, after the drama of the 1963 Conservative Party Conference
John Baron MP: Back Bench debates are a great innovation – but the Government must not ignore their conclusions
Yesterday, MPs voted against plans to axe 20,000 regular troops – Ministers should listen to Parliament.