If Osborne cuts tax rates for the rich, he must also curb their tax privileges

We won’t complain if the Chancellor reduces the top rate further. But the trade-off should be fairer property and pensions taxation.

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.

Lewis Baston: The summer of 1989 – the year, a quarter of a century ago, that saw the world recast

The Iron Curtain crumbled in Eastern Europe. De Klerk took power in South Africa. The birth of the internet loomed…and the beginning of the end loomed for Mrs Thatcher.

How Thatcher sold council houses – and created a new generation of property owners

But intolerably high house prices now exclude ordinary people.

Andrew Gimson profiles Liz Truss, seen by some as a future Tory leader

This education minister knows what she fights for and loves what she knows.

Peter Cuthbertson: How would the 1990s have been different if Thatcherism had continued under a Tebbit premiership?

What would have happened if Norman Tebbit had followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister?