Sarah Newton MP & Nadhim Zahawi MP: The economy needs businesses to cater for carers
Evidence shows that it is in the financial interests of businesses to improve their treatment of workers with care responsibilities.
Matthew Maxwell Scott: What’s wrong with private providers delivering public services?
‘Privatisation’ is now being used as a lazy pejorative to describe any injection of much-needed competition into health and other services.
Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives enjoy a six point lead in my first poll of 2015
Plus: I have decided to prompt for UKIP when asking about voting intention; and are voters starting to feel the recovery?
Andrew Dunn: My new research that challenges the left-wing consensus about jobless people and work
Large numbers of unemployed clamaints remain on benefits because they are too choosy in the jobs they are willing to do.
Garvan Walshe: Perfection through murder – the age-old terrorist dream. There’s nothing specifically Muslim about it.
But since this particular strain is expressed using the symbols of Islamic culture and Muslims’ identity, resisting it needs politics of exceptional subtlety.
Amandeep Singh Bhogal: The attacks on Paris are a call to arms
The West’s reponse to the challenge of global terror has been lamentable. We need an “Axis of Good” to take the fight to global jihad.
Mark Field MP: The coming election in numbers
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.
Andrew Lilico: No, vous n’êtes pas Charlie – and you shouldn’t have to be
Media that decide not to reproduce the magazine’s cartoons of Mohammed shouldn’t be criticised.
Mohammed Amin: Charlie Hebdo – Condemnation is necessary but not sufficient
Sometimes the religious beliefs of a terrorist are irrelevant; sometimes they are critical – as in this case.
Tom Hunt: Local homes for local people – and the crucial role of Community Land Trusts
How this new vehicle can help to break down resistance to building new homes that are desperately needed.
Mid Staffs 3) Extracts from a witness statement to the Francis Inquiry
As Labour claim that only they can be trusted with the NHS, we reproduce extracts from the statement of the son of a Mid-Staffs patient.
David Snoxell: Now is the Government’s chance to keep its Chagossian promise
After almost 50 years, a new report paves the way for the return of the Chagos islanders to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Lord Ashcroft: No predictions from me – but here’s a whole gallery of snapshots
I launch today a new section of my website featuring an index of the 114 seats I have surveyed since last May.
Andy Silvester: This NHS bidding war is not sustainable
Unless politicians come up with real solutions to the health service’s shortcomings and inefficiencies, no amount of promises and platitudes will save it.
Mid Staffs 2) Extracts from a witness statement to the Francis Inquiry
As Labour claim that only they can be trusted with the NHS, we reproduce extracts from the statement of the brother-in-law of a Mid-Staffs patient.