Adrian Hilton: Dementia screening? Forget it…
The smartest public health move would be encouraging lifestyles that delay dementia, rather than diagnosing the untreatable when it arrives.
Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don’t knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave
The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.
James Brandon: Our false narrative on Islamist terror helps nobody
Pretending that recent events have nothing to do with Islam is fooling no-one, and driving scared people into the arms of extremists.
Andrew R T Davies: A blow to social mobility as Welsh Labour plan to scrap the Right to Buy
Health spending – cut it. An Airport – nationalise it. Appoint a Business Minister – better make it one that likes Karl Marx.
Angie Bray MP: Why we must clarify the law on sex-selective abortion
It is unfortunate that it needs clarification, but we must restate that this practice is illegal, unethical and unacceptable.
Jeremy Brier: The cause of the Jews is also your cause
We are in the frontline of a struggle against Islamist extremism that threatens us all.
Stephanie Lis: Plain packaging of tobacco will simply boost the black market
The evidence from Australia suggests the policy won’t fulfil its stated aims.
Lord Bates: The revival of the North-East
Historically, our greatest weakness has been to place far too much confidence in government and demonstrate too little confidence in ourselves.
Mohammed Amin: The MCB has misunderstood Pickles’ letter to mosques
The Muslim Council of Britain fails to recognise the DCLG’s goodwill towards British Muslims – but the Department might have foreseen this.
Tom Pursglove: The biggest vote on Europe in 40 years delivers a huge majority for leaving
More than eight out of ten people in North Northamptonshire want to quit the EU.
Churchill and Thatcher answer the Archbishop of York
Conservative values of thrift, responsibility and self-reliance have a firmer footing upon the rock of Scripture than the Archbishop of York supposes.
James Heappey: Dairy farmers aren’t milking it – they need our help
Ultimately, it will fall to consumers to change the prospects of British producers.
Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives return to a one point lead in my latest national poll
Back to the norm after last week’s outlier. Plus, the results of focus groups in Croydon and Dudley.
Chris Daniels: Getting the right infrastructure, funded in the right way, is essential
The Government is right to play a part in planning for the future – the question is how to strike the correct balance.
Sunder Katwala: What our State of the Nation survey suggests that Cameron must now do
The Conservatives have to balance attracting more younger voters while not ducking the immigration question.