Scruton and the Tories. “A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country.”

Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.

An idea for McDonnell. Pledge £1 million to every voter in Britain.

Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.

The ConservativeHome columnists and the Conservative Party manifesto

We unleashed Nick Timothy on the world as a columnist. Meet the husband-and-wife combo of Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.

Scruton – and the gulf between Conservatives in Parliament and conservatives outside it

The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.

Rosalind Beck: Why the CPS and Onward plans for housing sales to private tenants are wrong

If anti-private landlord agendas are allowed to shape Government policy, things will only get worse for them and for their tenants alike.

“Living standards rose more quickly in the five years from 2011 than in the five years from 2002”. Discuss.

Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.

Willetts revives our question. What should Tories tax?

Wanted: a grand bargain with voters, whereby some rises at the top end are traded off for others nearer the bottom.

Send Stuart to the Lords, and Carswell to…Downing Street

This election follows a referendum that strained, and in some cases shattered, party loyalties. The Prime Minister ought now to be building her own big tent.

Lewis Baston: The 1975 Europe referendum revisited – and why it wasn’t about a free trade area

In a Daily Telegraph piece on the eve of poll, Margaret Thatcher argued for Europe, putting co-operation ahead of trade.