The BBC should embrace subscriptions

They could at once increase viewer engagement, diminish the Corporation’s monopoly power, and reduce political involvement in its funding.

Profile: Tracey Crouch, the Sports Minister who leads Conservative opposition to hunting

Could it be that she has done Cameron a favour by helping to avert a relaxation of the hunting ban?

Iain Dale: Why is CCHQ fixing the London Mayoral Conservative candidate selection?

Plus: Greenhalgh impresses as only three candidates show at a hustings. Osborne’s minimum wage. And: Hunting – I don’t like posh people on horses killing foxes.

Iain Dale: If Tory candidates have to pay for themselves, the Party really be one for the rich

Plus: Let’s have three bands of income tax. Red sky at night, my Shepherds delight. And: see you in Finchley tomorrow for my Conservative Mayoral Candidate Hustings.

Iain Dale: It’s scandalous that dozens of people at Transport for London earn over £100,000 a year

Plus: Thither goes Harry Cole – to the Sun. Here comes Tim Montgomerie – on a diet. And: Tracey Crouch, sports mastermind.

Iain Dale: I am Farage’s election agent and a Lamb campaign activist. In my dreams…

Plus: Labour – Alastair Campbell v Labour failure. Tories – Dale v Massow? Labour again: Watson V Flint V Eagle V…. And: Roy Jenkins’s sex life. P.S: I’m getting married.

Why is the Anglosphere, and northern Europe, less corrupt than other parts of the world?

No nation is spotless. But why are some so much cleaner than others?

It’s time for the Tories to tackle Eurovision

An expensive, annual European disgrace overseen by a BBC committee. If the Government won’t reform our selection process, can it truly call itself Conservative?

Satire isn’t dead – it’s just sick with self-satisfaction

More than half a century on from ‘The Establishment’, the real irony is that the most prominent satirists are now pillars of the actual establishment.

Andrew Allison: Here’s a BBC reform plan for Whittingdale – including the end of the licence fee

We need a five year Royal Charter renewal only – plus a move to subscription and a core of public service broadcasting funded from taxation.

Adrian Hilton: Equity’s election message – “Don’t vote Conservative, you moron.”

The Union’s election postcard reads like a Labour/SNP press release. And we have an appearance from Sam West (Alleyn’s, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, Socialist Alliance).

Election sketch: Javid copes with a semi-naked UKIP voter in Derbyshire

The Culture Secretary goes campaigning in two Derbyshire marginals…and finds time to ensure that his Department is flying the flag of England on St George’s Day.

David Skelton: Raise a glass of ale today to England, Englishness – and St George

For me, the concept of the “freeborn Englishman” is fundamental. These liberties are expressed through Parliament and institutions.

Special ConHome reader discount offer for “Dead Sheep” – a play about Geoffrey Howe, and the two women in his life

The author describes it as “a portrait of two types of marriage: Geoffrey and Elspeth’s on-going one of 62 years, and Geoffrey and Margaret’s political union of 18”.

The Diana-fication of the Commons

The Chamber’s culture change is for the worse – and it serves voters ill at a time when the country’s future is threatened.