Ten reasons why I won’t be joining UKIP

But the Conservatives need fundamental change.

Lewis Baston: The election that never happened – after the events of this month, a hundred years ago

What would the result have been of a 1914/15 poll – in a Britain that sometimes seemed to be on the verge of civil war?

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron gets away with drawing Miliband as Foot or Kinnock

The Speaker sounded like a petulant schoolmaster, but was right to try to restrain the Prime Minister.

Peter Batey: The life and times of Sir Edward Heath – whose former house has opened again to the public

Arundells, a beautiful early Georgian house nestling beneath the famous spire of Salisbury Cathedral, is open for guided tours.

Mark Francois MP: Raised on a council estate and reared on tales of Churchill. Why I am a Conservative.

I have always held in contempt champagne socialists who profess their love for working class people but would scarcely dream of inviting any to dinner.

Interview: Charles Moore on Thatcher – and how Obama treated her funeral badly

On the first anniversary of her death, Thatcher’s biographer hails her as the most conservative and most radical Prime Minister we have ever had

Interview: Andrew Gimson meets James Delingpole, a conservative who thinks the British Establishment stinks

Macmillan: “a soft fascist”. Letwin: “The devil incarnate.” And how Steve Hilton loved staghunting. Breibart’s new UK Executive Editor speaks out.

Benn’s warning to the Tories

The Tory tradition is wide, not exclusive, and should encompass those who have felt forced to join UKIP

Cameron runs “an organised hypocrisy”: Prime Ministers always do

Disraeli described the sense of betrayal which Graham Brady has this week expressed more temperately.

Charlotte Leslie MP: The Good Will of the EU v the Brute Facts of border control

Abusing those of us who call for extending the transitional controls of Romanians and Bulgarians for another five years solves nothing. The EU needs to change.

Interview by Andrew Gimson: Philip Hammond declares war on lunch, and on regimental campaigners

The Defence Secretary denies he is stifling debate, and attacks “misdirected individuals”

How Macmillan built 300,000 houses a year

There are some lessons in this for the modern day. Macmillan showed that the ruthless application of political will could achieve a surprising amount.

Interview: Boles – “There is no legal reason why the press should play along with the Royal Charter”

“The Liberal Democrats have shown they do not believe in press freedom. We Conservatives are the party of freedom.”

The land tax is a bad solution to a genuine problem

David Cooper is the secretary of something called Liberal Democrat ALTER (Action on Land Taxation and Economic Reform). No doubt,… Read more »

Edmund Burke, the man

One of the great strengths of British conservatism is its fabulous cast of unlikely heroes and heroines. Examples include Margaret… Read more »