Matthew Scott: Ignore the outdated, inaccurate criticisms – we Police and Crime Commissioners are making a positive difference
It’s easy to gripe, but the role, done well, can be powerful, transformative and create greater transparency.
Joseph Lee: As an ex-LibDem, here’s my response to Cable’s offer. Pro-EU Tories should have nothing to do with them.
Indeed, we should turn his offer on his head. Let’s reach out to sensible people who’ve joined his party, but already want something better.
Lee Rowley: The EEA/EFTA ‘safe harbour’ is not the Brexit Britain needs
The idea that we park the difficult challenges for a few years, by remaining in the EU in all but name, is for the birds.
Neil O’Brien: New homes. It’s time to make developers pay their fair share for infrastructure.
New research out today calculates that granting a piece of land planning permission for new houses makes it dramatically more valuable.
Bob Seely: Yes, Brexit and leadership are important. But so’s everything else. Here are some ideas for the future.
Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.
Ben Rayment: A plan to use ethical consumption to cut workplace injustices worldwide
We need a Fair Trade-style rating or branding system for products based on the quality of working conditions undergone to create them.
Steve Brine: How we can deliver our ambition of saving a further 30,000 lives a year from cancer by 2020
Prevention, detection and treatment are three means of building on the progress that we’re already making.
Richard Risby: The gathering debate about whether to deploy NATO troops to Romania and Bulgaria
The question now is now whether this further response to Russian activity is needed. Opinion is certainly beginning to move in this direction.
Andrew Green: Labour’s new immigration policy is a recipe for serious social tension
Diane Abbott is trying to forge an alliance between immigrant communities and an employer’s lobby keen to import labour.
Robert Goodwill: The Commons Bill this week which prepares the way for a Green Brexit
Last week, I sowed wild bird seed mixtures so that, in the spring, some of our fields will be ablaze with nectar plants and buzzing with insects once more.
The pantomime excuse given by the men wanted for the Salisbury attack isn’t aimed at us, but at Putin’s domestic audience
The transparent absurdity is the whole point; the Kremlin is demonstrating to a domestic audience that they believe they can attack us with impunity.
Ted Yarbrough: Chequers’ champions would never support a similar deal with America
It would be a national humiliation for Britain to strike so one-sided a treaty with the world’s largest single market, let alone the shrinking EU.
Stephen Bates: How to reduce our scandalous waste of food
Let’s have each local store publish its waste levels to help consumers choose where to shop. And let’s have food manufacturers publish their waste levels too.
Charles Lawley: Britain must take action against the genocide of the Rohingya
If the perpetrators go unpunished, the West risks ceding global leadership to China.
Alistair Lexden: A rigorous new biography explores the ‘mild supremacy’ of Lord Liverpool
William Hay offers a well-researched and welcome antidote to the reactionary caricature of Peterloo mythology.