Jill Kirby: Can the Coalition provide reassurance in the Age of Anxiety?
A dominant theme of the Majority Conservatism agenda launched by Tim this week is the need for Conservatives to show… Read more »
Jesse Norman MP: The fate of the Eurozone hinges on leadership from Mrs Merkel
Jesse Norman is Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. He blogs here. Five weeks ago I wrote in rather… Read more »
David Campbell Bannerman MEP: Don’t whip the EU vote, Mr Cameron
David Campbell Bannerman recently defected from UKIP and became a Conservative MEP for the Eastern Region. News came on… Read more »
Anthony Browne: If we don’t set the agenda for financial regulation, the EU will do it instead
“Fog in Channel – Europe cut off” is the old joke headline, but the fact we laugh in self-recognition is… Read more »
Anthony Browne: Immigration appears to be cooling as an issue
This might be wishful thinking on my part – and it certainly goes against a recent opinion poll in the… Read more »
Stephan Shakespeare: There’s no such thing as Worcester Woman or Mondeo Man
Who do the Conservatives need to target to win the next election? What is the latest version of Mondeo Man?… Read more »
Paul Goodman: Why the Conservative frontbench broke off relations with Douglas Murray – and what happened afterwards
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Islam and Islamism are different The struggle against Islamist extremism demands the separation of… Read more »
Bruce Anderson: Often overlooked, Phillip Hammond is worthy of his promotion to Defence Secretary
In the later years of her Premiership, Margaret Thatcher was often reduced to wry bewilderment by her Cabinet colleagues' ingenuity… Read more »
Ruth Lea: As growth falters, realism creeps into the green energy debate
Last week’s economic news was mixed, biased towards the negative. Starting with the good news, exports picked up in August,… Read more »
Anthony Browne: The reporting of the Fox case sides with the civil servants, who don’t like Ministers receiving external advice
I must admit, even as a former political journalist, I find all this Fox hunting a bit of journalistic hyper-ventilation…. Read more »
Jill Kirby: Health ministers should start talking about patients, not systems
Despite a concentrated media campaign, opponents of the Health and Social Care Bill failed to halt its progress in the… Read more »
Anthony Browne: As much as the Coalition may want to avoid one, a fight over Eurozone integration looks inevitable
Despite the wishes of the party leadership, the issue of Europe refuses to go away. It is a drama in… Read more »
Anthony Browne: Reformers should be glad that Jeremy Heywood will be the new Cabinet Secretary
It is good news that Jeremy Heywood is to succeed Gus O’Donnell as Cabinet Secretary – and a good indication… Read more »
Stephan Shakespeare: Mean Reversion, or how 2015 defines 2012
I return to the question of the next election, even though it is far away. Our view of what will… Read more »
Bruce Anderson: Ken Clarke is still filling aspirin bottles with arsenic
Politics has only an erratic relationship with fairness. That is fortunate for Ken Clarke. If he had been treated fairly,… Read more »