The Character Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Couldn’t Book at Bedtime choose one of the 99,999 other novels or short stories that won’t fuel the wish-fulfilment of the empathetically stunted?

Interview: Jacob Rees-Mogg – “I think the love-bombing of UKIP voters would be an intelligent strategy”

He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Enoch. Enoch who…?

If Powell is remembered only for his views on immigration, this will be a long way short of the whole story.

John Bald: Grammar Schools. How we got where we are. And what to do next.

Of the grammar, academy and comprehensive ideals, only the first two are now left standing.

Andrew Lansley MP: Conservatives must champion our continued EU membership

Never have we been as successful at being ‘in’ when we want to be in; while being ‘out’ of ever-closer union.

Cameron should stop pretending to be David Mellor in the back of a cab

By being so unrelentlingly contemptuous about the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister is corrupting his own brand.

Nicholas Boys Smith: The 1970s. The decade when Britain’s housing utopia turned into a nightmare.

Back then, hundreds of houses and streets made way for tower blocks. We should be wary of returning to that policy.

Interview: Nicky Morgan – “As a Christian Secretary of State for Education, I will oppose secular, politically correct dogma”

Michael Gove’s successor upholds his reforms, opposes new grammar schools, dismisses Tristram Hunt as “vacuous”…and admires Henry VIII.

Iain Dale: How I deprived the Queen and the French Ambassador of an audience

Plus: Making polite chat with Ted Heath. Musing on Boris Johnson’s future. Alan Clark on crack. And: My mucker Chuka.

Interview: Daniel Moylan – “Boris will never surrender his vision of building a great new airport east of London”

The airports adviser to the Mayor of London tells ConHome what “a Boris world” would look like.

Adam Lent: Conservatives should embrace the goal of greater economic equality – as Thatcher did

Instead of denouncing the idea, we should work out and explain how the free market delivers true egalitarianism.

Sir Edward Leigh MP: So you want an inclusive Conservative Party? Here’s how to build one.

Metropolitan liberals, social conservatives, free marketers, old-fashioned patriots. The first is the ascendancy. But all must have their place.

Interview: McLoughlin – “If it wasn’t for the Conservative Party, nobody would know who Carswell and Reckless were”

Patrick McLoughlin, Transport Secretary and former miner, on UKIP, HS2, the Euston Arch, Heathrow and the desirability of getting ahead with one’s Christmas shopping.

Iain Dale: The best and worst Conservative leaders. Who do you nominate?

Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.

Heresy of the week: If concern about climate change is a religion, then Margaret Thatcher was its founder   

Perhaps the reason why environmentalism gets stuck with the religion label is because the issues involved are so vast in scope