Stephan Shakespeare: Are coalitions here to stay?
Polling that I conducted on UKIP this week suggests that multi-party politics is winning support.
Henry Hill: Alliance councillors attacked in their home quit politics
Also: Welsh patients told to ‘gain weight’ to receive anti-obesity surgery; and NI deadlock on benefit reform.
Stephen Tall: What Clegg was really up last week
The Liberal Democrat leader is striving to boost his appeal to persuadable Conservative supporters as well as Labour ones.
Priti Patel MP: The bishops are blind to the moral message of IDS’s gospel of work
The Work and Pensions Secretary is right to roll back Labour’s culture of welfare dependency.
Brian Monteith: The divergences and differences within Scotland – and how they’ll impact on the poll
Its many divisions – by age, religion, class and geography – breeds a complex politics which it is too easily misunderstood.
Marcus Roberts: How my #LongTermEconomicPlan for #HardWorkingPeople was laid low by the cynicism of Democracy 3
When I tried my luck as George Osborne, it wasn’t just the game’s crude Keynesianism that made me subject to assassination attempts.
Henry Hill: ‘New IRA’ main suspect for mainland letter bombs
Also: Welsh Tories’ ‘Night of Long Knives’; International views on currency gambit; Irish language cuts; and devolution for Shetland?
Garvan Walshe: Obama’s weak and indecisive foreign policy has made the world more dangerous
When America falters and fails to back up freedom against aggression, people suffer.
Charlotte Leslie MP: Politicians do what we can in a crisis, but we cannot hold back the forces of nature
The Westminster system prizes being seen and heard, regardless of whether all the activity makes a difference.
Adrian Hilton: Oh What A Lefty War – a revolution victoriously revisited
Putting politics aside, the latest production of Joan Littlewood’s famous play is timely and touching.
Henry Hill: ‘Impartial’ youth vote campaigner a hard-line separatist
Also: Ex-‘supergrass’ levels fresh allegations at McGuinness, and Sinn Fein conference hijacked by IRA victims’ Twitter protest.
Stephen Tall: It’s May 2015. Cameron’s won a majority. And here’s some advice for him from his Chief Whip…
Keep the LibDems on board while appeasing the right. Prepare for full-on conservatism. Oh, and one other small thing…
John Baron MP: As Karzai holds talks with the Taliban, we must learn the lessons from Afghanistan
When designing future foreign policy, we should be clear in constructing narrow and achievable goals.
Priti Patel MP: What Conservatives in government are doing to boost trade with the emerging economies
Exporting to Europe and America is not enough.
Lewis Baston: The election 40 years ago that the Conservatives were lucky to lose
If Heath had won in February 1974, there would have been a deal with the unions, faster Euro-integration…and no Thatcherism?