Farage wants to put a quango in charge of Britain’s borders

So much for direct democracy.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: the Palace of Westminster looks as in touch as the Palace of Versailles

Miliband was unable to stop Cameron being shamelessly evasive, while Clegg ignored them both, and contemplated his own extinction.

Dominic Raab MP: The Green Party’s policies are dangerous – and we should start taking them seriously

After all, the Greens could be in power with Labour within a few weeks. So it’s time for Conservatives to confront the threat that they pose.

Willetts, Clarke, Warsi – and campaign discipline

Election day is scarcely eight weeks away, presenting a united front matters, and this is no time for the Conservatives to be squabbling over immigration policy.

David Burrowes MP: Immigration detention should no longer be out of sight and out of mind

The current system fails taxpayers and detainees alike.

Lord Green: Yes, the immigration figures are disappointing. But we must stick with a net reduction target.

The public will never accept that the number of entrants cannot be controlled.

Iain Dale: How I surprised Ed Balls with my small package

Plus: Bennett’s brain fade. Why I will not put my name in for Kensington. No to Sol Campbell. Why there are no gay people in Alabama. And: arise, Lord Montgomerie!

Stephen Tall: Some farewell advice

My last ConHome column addresses the same topic as my first: If I were a Tory, here’s what I would do.

Heresy of the week: We live in a decreasingly global world

We won’t save what’s good about globalisation by overlooking what’s bad about it.

How the Coalition delivered British workers into British jobs

Yesterday’s employment figures confirmed a new balance in our labour market.

The business case

A lesson of Miliband’s assault on businesses is that they can no longer rely on others to communicate the benefits of what they do to voters.

Charlotte Leslie MP: Immigration. The NHS. And all the other subjects we’re not meant to talk about.

It’s not just cartoons of Mohammed that have become taboo.

Sunder Katwala: What our State of the Nation survey suggests that Cameron must now do

The Conservatives have to balance attracting more younger voters while not ducking the immigration question.

Profile: Marine Le Pen, the outsider who sees herself as the saviour of France.

If the French establishment continues to fall below the level of events, the leader of the Front National will be in a strong position to challenge for the presidency in 2017.

Foreign students – the battleground of migration vs growth becomes the battleground of the leadership hopefuls

Already a vexed debate, the addition of May, Osborne and Boris to the mix won’t calm it down one bit.