Universal Credit. Noble aim, thorny problems – and Rudd’s decision. If the scheme is to work properly, it must be paid for.

If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.

Let’s turn Railways Day into Scrap HS2 Day

“How would you feel if we spent the money on local transport links in the Midlands and the north?’’ Gove asked Conservative MPs last year.

Tim Dawson: The BBC Murders. How the corporation used anti-Brexit poison to bump off Poirot.

Its left-wing, metropolitan agenda is now at the heart of everything it does. And viewers are switching off in droves.

Laura Farris and Guy Opperman: How to tackle the UK’s productivity challenge

Employee ownership, flexible working, and offering ‘mid-life MOTs’ are all simple, scalable, cost-effective policies ministers can support.

Robert Halfon: How the patronising metropolitan elites wrinkled up their noses at more money for potholes

Plus: Unsung Conservative heroes. The Centre for Rocket Studies. And: why do we need the traditional, three-year University course?

Tom Clougherty: Make Work Pay. A new agenda from the CPS for fairer taxes – including an end to pernicious marginal rates.

If one of a couple claiming the marriage allowance becomes a higher rate taxpayer, there is a 23,800 per cent marginal tax rate on the first penny over the threshold.

Rosalind Beck: Why the CPS and Onward plans for housing sales to private tenants are wrong

If anti-private landlord agendas are allowed to shape Government policy, things will only get worse for them and for their tenants alike.

Robert Colvile: The boost to home ownership that would come from Help to Own – and the work we’ve been doing on it

Alex Morton and the rest of our research team have spent weeks crunching the numbers to ensure that they stack up

Alex Morton: The purpose of education is to give people skills for life. And we have lost sight of it.

It would be wrong to try to create a system of conservative indoctrination because so-called progressives have indoctrinated children and students in other ways.

James Frayne: The voters most enthusiastic about state action on childhood obesity are…Conservative ones

So new research suggests. Private businesses must take at least as much responsibility for this state of affairs as Tory politicians.

Robert Halfon: I agree with Corbyn about democratising the BBC (or, rather, he agrees with me)

Plus: Why call McCain a maverick?; the Labour MPs who deserve an award for courage; and who is the right’s Artist Taxi Driver?

The Treasury donkey

The irony is that Hammond is appallingly placed to persuade voters that No Deal really does carry risks.

Daniel Hannan: Political clickbait is Fleet Street’s addiction, and the nation’s problem

The trend fuels harmful misrepresentations and myths. It might bring in ad revenue, but it harms the fabric of our democracy.

Matt Warman: Closing the gulf between the politicians and the people

My new report for the Centre for Policy Studies suggests ways in which government can be made more accountable.

Bob Seely: My housing challenge to think tanks. Devise a strategy that will prize social justice above economic liberalism.

In my constituency, we have a target of just over 640 homes a year. Our housing waiting list is 3,000.