Iain Dale: It’s time for Cabinet members of both sexes to show some balls

Plus: People vote for me to shave off my beard. But the decision was only advisory. And did they have enough information…?

Howard Flight: This Conservative Government has slipped towards socialism – the rot must be stopped

The tax take is at its highest ever, and yet the Government is looking at ways to raise yet more taxes.

Robert Colvile: Our drive at the Centre for Policy Studies for new ideas for ownership

Our New Generation programme will be tasked with producing policies in areas that are of pressing concern to voters: tax, enterprise, housing, welfare.

Edward Rees: Taking inspiration from Thatcher’s NHS reforms to improve the service today

The current pressures faced by the health service are not new or exclusive to the 21st Century. Let’s learn from past experience.

Chris Grayling: Don’t claim that I didn’t warn you about Corbyn

When I wrote on this website last year that we should not underestimate him, some ridiculed my argument. Now we have to educate a new generation about the dangers of Labour.

May’s Europe speech and the pound. “The markets are always right.” Discuss.

They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.

Peter Cuthbertson: There was no alternative to Thatcherism – even the SDP would have wrecked our country

It was crucial not just to defy the far left – but also the moderate left and the establishment.

Andrew Gimson’s Conference Diary: This lamentable rhetoric will in time produce a reaction

Plus: Why do so many expensive hotels think it is a good thing to make their windows unopenable? Can’t we go back to Blackpool?

John Bald: The abolition of parent governors would be a great mistake

The views of parents matter – and they can serve as a bulwark against corruption.

WATCH: Margaret Thatcher “leaving Downing Street for the last time” 25 years ago

“Now it’s time for a new chapter to open.”

25 years on, Thatcher’s legacy is stronger than ever

Thatcherism has spread around the world causing global poverty to plummet.

If the momentum of the last hundred days is maintained what will Britain be like in five years?

Often the reforms are going further than anything that Margaret Thatcher achieved.

Matthew Bailey and Philip Cowley: The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Tory leader, Thatcher stood for ideology – right from the start

The day-in-day-out reporting of the 1975 leadership contest stressed her dogmatism – and the risks for the Party should its MPs be foolhardy enough to vote for her.

Mark Fox: The Royal Navy is Britain’s most effective means of promoting and defending itself

So we need to continue to invest heavily in naval equipment – ensuring that it comes into operation, and has the manpower to go with it.

WATCH: Lord Hurd – “The only advice I ever gave Cameron was not to be ashamed of his education.”

A Daily Politics profile – how he wrestled with the Bosnian question and has “only minor regret” at never having been Conservative leader.