Is teacher-supervised brushing for three to five-year-olds any more absurd than banning anyone born after 2009 from ever legally buying a cigarette?
The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
Unable to conceive that it may have made mistakes, officialdom seeks to set Johnson up as its scapegoat.
Since the landmark loneliness strategy in 2018, the priority and funding associated with the strategy have waned. The next election is an opportunity to do something about that.
“It is completely out of order,” Gove reacts to video showing staff at Conservative HQ celebrating Xmas while country was in a Covid lockdown.
The former Downing St communications director argues that Johnson has “taken charge” of a situation that was “out of control”.
“As I understand it, this unit within the Cabinet Office did not monitor specific individuals… we believe in free speech, as a government.”
The tenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
Rather than try to put the cork back in the bottle post-Covid, the right needs to recognise the home-working revolution is here to stay.
Just as after World War Two, lockdown has hugely expanded the public’s expectations of the state – but hammered our ability to pay for it.
The ex-Prime Minister makes his case to the privileges committee.
By publishing the Lockdown Files, Isabel Oakshott’s has exposed the complicity of much of our media class in the mishandling of the pandemic.
By holding firm, the Government should make clear to striking teachers it is not only their own time they are wasting but that of a generation of pupils who have already lost too much.
MPs like me spent too much of the pandemic period looking the other way, and getting out of the Government’s way. It’s time we stepped up to make that right.