Edward Timpson MP: Our next steps on adoption reform
This week, we’re announcing the first 14 Regional Adoption Agencies – which together cover over 100 local authorities and a large majority of Voluntary Adoption Agencies.
Jonathan Isaby: Making the old even better off at the expense of the young is morally bankrupt
In the first piece of our mini-series on intergenerational unfairness, Jonathan explores the way government policy is widening the gap.
James Cartlidge MP: I support Osborne’s tax credit plan – and so should my Conservative colleagues
Trying to move Britain from a dependency culture is horrifically difficult, and I cannot see how it can be done without some pain.
David Burrowes MP: Why Sunday is still worth keeping special
Total trade will not rise if shops are open longer: it will merely be spread to different parts of the week, and so will not add to GDP.
Dan Dalton MEP: The sharing economy offers a golden opportunity to deregulate
The Uber debate in London is one of the key economic battles of our time.
Dominic Llewellyn: The Government can create opportunity for all in a new way – it’s time to focus on social outcomes
Social impact bonds allow investors to back programmes that prevent social issues in the first place, saving all of us money.
Joe Porter: Cheap food – but what’s the cost?
Buying British or thinking about where our food comes from is sadly not top of the shopping list for most of us.
John Stevens: It is the principle of the EU, not the renegotiation of the terms of membership, that matters
Focusing only upon the detail and evading the general is becoming a most damaging addiction.
Dennis Clark: Rudd’s energy policy failure – and how she must turn it around
The lack of UK content specified in major projects is costing economy dearly in terms of lost jobs and business, and it’s unacceptable for the Government to stand idly by.
James Steel: Why there will never be another Labour government in the UK
Its social base is gone, its electorate pulled in different directions, and globalisation has eroded the state’s ability to grant comfortable lives by decree.
Eric Pickles MP: Why is the Foreign Office turning a blind eye to Palestinian incitement of violence?
It should not equate the acts of a handful of extremists on the very fringes of Israeli society to the state-sanctioned incitement of violence rife within Palestinian society.
Nick Hillman: How students voted in May – and why they had such limited impact
Several popular assumptions about ‘the student vote’ turned out to be untrue.
Andrew Allison: Five proposals to reform the BBC
Here are The Freedom Association’s recommendations to John Whittingdale to secure the future of the Corporation.
Alan Duncan MP: Palestinian statehood – closer to recognition, further from reality
A year on since the Commons voted to recognise Palestinian statehood, we must apply proper diplomatic pressure and see it as an essential moral issue of our time.
Helen Whately MP: On Syrian refugees, Britain must show that we’re on the right side of the moral argument
Every official we met welcomed us for showing an interest in the situation in Turkey. And they consistently called on us to do more: “this isn’t sustainable”.