A winter energy crisis would be politically disastrous – and it’s far from impossible

National Grid is already using ‘last resort’ measures to keep the lights on.

Owen Meredith: Osborne should raise fuel duty by 50 per cent next month

Doing so could fund a substantial cut in National Insurance and wrest control of the green agenda away from the left.

Dominic Raab MP: Farage himself says that UKIP “isn’t passing the credibility test”. Here’s why he’s right.

A double-talking, flip-flopping, party of spendthrifts will aggravate – not salve – public mistrust of the political class.

Edward Leigh MP: The mistakes by our leadership that helped UKIP gain its first MP

The Coalition must end now.

Joe Storey: New Labour is still a danger

Voters should remember the damage that the Blair and Brown-led governments are responsible for.

A Labour budget response that didn’t respond, delivered by a man who was barely there

Compare Miliband’s speech today to Tony Blair’s at the same stage of Opposition. Ed doesn’t come off well.

Andrew Lilico: It isn’t “ignorant” or “denial” to doubt policies to prevent climate change are a good idea

There should be a debate on what to do about climate change – but possible answers include “nothing” and “adapt to it”.

Pinning Down Miliband: Energy and the environment

The price freeze grabbed headlines, but our new series shows Labour’s policies are in chaos.

Robert Halfon MP: The scandal of hidden utility bill charges

Conservatives should not be shy of exposing corporates when they are plainly ripping off the consumer.

Why Osborne should cut income taxes for poorer workers first

Cameron and Osborne must target squeezed voters whose household budgeting is constantly challenged by the cost of filling up a car or paying a gas bill.

Green taxes are Party members’ U-turn of the Year

Conservative members regard it as not just a significant u-turn, but also a good one – but what does it say about Cameron’s convictions?

Here are some other cartoons which Mary Creagh might want to make more progressive

Thomas the Tank Engine is only the start of our problems.

Lord Flight: Looking back at the Autumn Statement

The extent to which EU requirements and directives are now actively damaging our economy and frustrating our ability to put things right is noteworthy.

We ask our panel: What do you want to see in Osborne’s Autumn Statement?

Johnathan Algar, Antonia Cox, Nick Faith, Peter Franklin, David Green, Peter Hoskin, Andrew Lilico, Andrea Leadsom MP and Simon Richards give their views.

Stephen Tall: The agony of the Tory modernisers

John Major, William Hague, Michael Howard, David Cameron – all promised to win over new converts, all ended up preaching to the choir. And still no sign of the promised land: an outright majority.