If we can’t think of anything that’s going to do real good, maybe we could act like true Conservatives for once – and choose to do nothing at all?
This week’s National Family Hubs Fair and Conference brought together around 50 organisations that are committed to supporting families.
Parents could choose to stretch childcare payments over time whilst they continue earning the salary they deserve.
With gangs on our streets and knives in our schools, this is too big a societal issue to look at purely through the lens of our education system.
Cripplingly high effective marginal tax rates, and other imbalances, are skewing the tax system against the things we care about.
Security, cohesion, integration, solidarity: all are intangible. But we pay – literally – to gain them. Why single out self-government?
Rather than obsess about lack of aspiration, it is the lack of social capital that we should be focusing on.
The electorate are less and less convinced by such arguments about party identity and destiny. Far underground, the tectonic plates are moving.
We must look at the benefits that reusable nappies can offer, and promote greater awareness so that people can make an informed choice.
In the second article of our mini-series, the Harlow MP calls for a relentless focus on the cost of living, a skills-based economy, social injustices and affordable housing.
In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP sets out plans on tax, housing deficits and debt to help achieve inter-generational justice.
It feels like our Party has forgotten that even a broad church needs shared values on which its different wings and traditions can agree.
Plus: The train of communism stalls but the train of conservatism stutters. And: Tackling Burning Injustices does not mean taxing milkshakes.
In his column, Walshe made some extraordinary claims about our proposals and our country. The reality is very different.