Grant Shapps MP: The extraordinary things Labour are saying about Ed Miliband
Some of Ed’s fiercest critics are in his own team. And it’s getting worse.
Henry Hill: Robinson and McGuinness tried to block FoI request…because it will cost them votes
Also: Scotch Whiskey Association blocks minimum pricing; UUP leader backs unionist pact; and Ulster grammar schools maintain lead.
Iain Dale: Now then. As I was saying…
He’s back! How Number 10 shut the whips out from the last reshuffle. The Clegg & Farage debate: I was there. And finally: my smut pledge to ConHome readers.
Isabel Oakeshott: The silent discrimination facing women of childbearing age
Employers either gamble that such women have no immediate plans to start a family – or hire a man with equivalent, or even weaker, credentials and avoid the risk.
Fighting, f**king and family – sometimes all at once. Game Of Thrones returns soon.
Series 4 is almost upon us. The medieval fantasy series is a study in the Will to Power. And of something deeper.
Stephan Shakespeare: Don’t make too much of the post-Budget poll shift towards the Conservatives
The reasons why it’s difficult for Cameron to win outright still endure – though a late surge of reforming energy could make the difference.
Greg Clark MP: Tory heroes in our towns and cities. Let’s start with Paul Maynard in Blackpool.
The Minister for Cities’ column returns. He will be looking at how local Conservatives are helping to transform the communities they live in for the better.
Henry Hill: Alliance Euro candidate decries “very artificial” Northern Ireland
Also: Labour MSP calls for defence to be ‘out of the hands of nation states’; and PUP leader defends terrorist past.
Stephen Tall: How Balls & Miliband let Osborne & Clegg write their story for them
On the economy, Labour has been manoevered into going exactly where its opponents want it to be.
Garvan Walshe: Why Crimea brings war over Iran’s nuclear ambitions closer
Suppose Israel were to become convinced that Russia had connived in the Ayatollahs gaining even a primitive nuclear device.
Priti Patel MP: Osborne’s radical pension reforms will empower savers
Conservatives are restoring this country’s pension system to give those who have worked, saved and made sacrifices.
Brian Monteith: Ruth Davidson has a chance she must seize – one that could make or break her career
Labour has funked reforming devolution – and given her a chance to come out and campaign for tax competition.
Marcus Roberts: Interplanetary war between friends
Want to indulge your inner von Clausewitz? In space? Then this game of economics, cooperation and destruction is for you.
Stephan Shakespeare: Are UKIP supporters racist?
My own conclusion is No. A higher proportion of UKIP supporters admit to racist views than of the other main parties, but it is clearly a minority.
Henry Hill: Scottish Labour’s constitutional lunacy – and how to use it
Scottish Labour want to make cutting taxes effectively unconstitutional – with Ed Miliband’s blessing.