Chris Grayling MP: Labour’s silence on the striking tube unions speaks volumes
The Opposition can’t even bring themselves to express their concern about the inconvenience to hard-working people.
Rebecca Coulson: Healing the NHS may require some difficult medicine
The health service cannot last as it is. We need to consider what we’re willing to contribute to protect it – and our own health.
Lord Flight: What would be the impact of Greece leaving the Euro?
Whatever the outcome now, the flames of nationalism will be fanned amongst EU member countries – the very opposite of what was intended.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: Love and mercy shouldn’t be a path to prison. It’s time to legalise assisted dying.
At the moment, due to the lack of clarity, the decision lies in the hands of the doctor. This is the exact reverse of what the situation should be.
Iain Dale: Why is CCHQ fixing the London Mayoral Conservative candidate selection?
Plus: Greenhalgh impresses as only three candidates show at a hustings. Osborne’s minimum wage. And: Hunting – I don’t like posh people on horses killing foxes.
Lewis Baston: How Edward Heath won the first Conservative leadership election, 50 years ago this month
He defeated the favourite, Reggie Maudling. And ever since, when offered a choice, the Tories have gone with the less familiar face among the main candidates.
Graeme Archer: Our Lost World
From the hounding of Tim Hunt to the non-hounding of a man waving an ISIS flag in central London, our institutions are failing.
Ashley Fox MEP: Cameron makes Britain’s voice heard in a noisy room of EU leaders
Plus, why the voters of London would be lucky to have Syed Kamall as a mayoral candidate.
Daniel Hannan MEP: We need more Jews
As anti-Semitic violence returns to the Old Continent, the Sephardic Jews who repopulated France are leaving in droves. Europe may this time be left truly soulless.
From Reggie to Dessie: It took four Drag Queens to get Soames aboard the Gay Pride Float
Proceedings were interrupted by a large rodent, which was eventually cornered by young Hancock, who strangled it and dropped it out of the window.
Henry Hill: Ulster convulsed by bribery allegations from Dublin
Also: Police Scotland referred to UN over stop and search; more woe for Wood as she scrapes top of Plaid list; and Brit plot to transplant Hong Kong to NI revealed.
Garvan Walshe: Greece and Tunisia show the limits of sovereignty
In the modern world, no single country can get its way on its own.
Iain Dale: If Tory candidates have to pay for themselves, the Party really be one for the rich
Plus: Let’s have three bands of income tax. Red sky at night, my Shepherds delight. And: see you in Finchley tomorrow for my Conservative Mayoral Candidate Hustings.
Graeme Archer: How we will leave
Logic tells me there ought to be a negotiable compromise with the EU. Emotion makes me want to punch the Commission’s smug face.
Henry Hill: Scottish Tories ask voters to help pick candidates for Holyrood
Also: Northern Ireland welfare reform talks deadlock; Jones attacks reserved powers proposals as ‘pre-devolutionary’; and NI21 tragedy just won’t end.