Scotland 2) Henry Hill: Could this week’s poll bring out the unionist vote?
Separatism has always enjoyed a highly motivated support base – but this week’s nightmare poll could maximise unionist turnout.
Stephen Tall: All three parties’ worst nightmare – winning the next election
In any scenario, the main parties are in for a bumpy, uncomfortable ride.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: The real Tory divide is between the majority that wants to win and the minority that doesn’t
The latter need to ask themselves: when did they become the thing they most hate in the world. When did they become LibDems?
Alistair Burt MP: The clinching pro-Union argument. The more Tory MPs Scotland has, the better its football does
The legions of ConHome footy fans are eagerly focusing on this key issue: what impact will a ‘Yes/No’ vote have on the country’s historic football decline?
Iain Dale: Why we may have entered the last two weeks of Cameron’s premiership
Coming Soon: Politicos Guide to the General Election. Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right. And: In honour of Clifford Norden, who died in World War One.
Lewis Baston: Douglas Carswell, and the three types of MPs who defect
Churchill, Mosley, Powell, Prentice, Owen, Berkeley, Taverne…There are the awkward men of principle. Those whose parties have changed radically. And the lost souls.
Graeme Archer: Suppose – nevertheless – that there are such things as monsters
Salmond and Carswell aren’t monsters – but they’re feeding one which threatens our nation of nations.
From Reggie to Dessie: “Bill Cash, as you can imagine, was very critical. “Big mistake by Carswell…”
A senior backbench Conservative e-mails the Minister of State at the Department for International Development.
Stephan Shakespeare: For every Labour voter who shifts to UKIP, two or three Tories shift too
I doubt whether the ‘Vote UKIP, get Miliband’ slogan is quite as powerful as Tory strategists believe.
Henry Hill: This referendum is a starting gun, not a finish line
This column will be focusing on Scotland for the next few weeks – but the fight for Britain begins in earnest on September 19.
Garvan Walshe: Machiavelli’s advice to NATO on Russia
The ghost of the cunning Florentine urges Cameron, Merkel and Hollande to show some balls.
Lord Flight: What is the role of the non-executive director in today’s world?
We have moved a long way from NEDS concentrating on the interests of shareholders and helping to take executive decisions.
Iain Dale: How I turned down Douglas Carswell
Plus, Miliband’s beard; the wrong seat for Boris; and why the immigration figures are all wrong.
Graeme Archer: Rotherham, Orwell and the collapse of language
Language was twisted and censored to first ignore and then to hide the horrific facts of child abuse.
Brian Monteith: Darling’s mauling is no cause for worry
Salmond won on his own terms, but failed to shift a single voter.