Bruce Anderson: London needs more airport capacity — but we can ignore Boris’s madcap, self-serving proposals
Airports create political difficulties, and parties that have been out of office for 13 years do not always think clearly… Read more »
Nadine Dorries MP: It’s time to defend the green belt
Following the reshuffle last week we experienced a rush of policy announcements, some of which were supply-side oriented and very… Read more »
Bruce Anderson: Warsi – Dorries in a headscarf. David Jones – a good egg. Herbert – diddums. Bercow – wretched, snivelling, grovelling, worthless and contemptible. My thoughts on the reshuffle.
At the risk of sounding aged, dull, blase, boring and complacent, I have been scrutinising Conservative resuffles for more than… Read more »
Andrew Lilico: Why some new customs union or single market arrangement would be better for the UK, post EU, than universal free trade
I have written before that I expect the UK to leave the EU soon (probably during the next Parliament), and… Read more »
Jill Kirby: David Cameron missed the opportunity to make the best of women round the Cabinet table
Did Theresa May have to fight to keep her job in the reshuffle? In an awkward interview on last night's… Read more »
Andrew Lilico: No discrimination without monopsony power!
In a remarkable turn of events, as part of a series of test cases on religious discrimination before the European Court of… Read more »
Bruce Anderson: Tory belief starts with Britain and ends with champagne
The Tories were never "the stupid party", as John Stuart Mill described them. But at some periods in their history,… Read more »
Nadine Dorries: The reshuffle will create more enemies for Cameron among the overlooked. It won’t achieve much else
Seriously, is there any political commentary more tedious than the constant speculation regarding who is on the way up and… Read more »
How to get the best out of Sayeeda Warsi
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter A Conservative Party Chairman who sits in the Lords is no less accessible to… Read more »
The government cannot wait for something to come along — it must arrest the sense of drift by itself
Politics is like a rugger match in permanent session. If you are not pushing forward, the other lot will be… Read more »
Andrew Lilico: Europe is the real threat to US hegemony
Many pieces have been written, recently, discussing the end of US hegemony. Some frame this in terms of internal US… Read more »
Peter Hoskin: The joy (and politics) of working from home
This slow, sullen period before autumn demands a change of pace — and who am I to defy it? So, rather… Read more »
Nadine Dorries MP: Louise Mensch was wrong to back The Sun against Prince Harry
Writing with a mother’s heart, I find it impossible to condemn the foolish frolics of Prince Harry, who serves in… Read more »
Andrew Lilico: Learn from the power of love
My favourite book to read my children when they were very small was "Love you forever" by Robert Munsch. In… Read more »
Bruce Anderson: Macmillan had the best known reshuffle of all time, but Mrs Thatcher had the most successful reshuffle
Assuming that there is a Cabinet reshuffle in September, we can make one confident prediction. It will neither be as… Read more »