Plus: The steel crisis. Trump’s abortion atrocity. Nick Watt, denied a Guardian promotion by political correctness. And: I leave ConHome to write for Momentum.
A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.
Also: Trimble makes economic case for Brexit; Plaid demand timeshare First Minister; Foster calls for arrests over dissident violence; and more.
We now have a Government which we know will make middle earners pay more – and which may make higher earners pay even more too.
Our “Registered Supporter” scheme has enrolled 2,000 people; another example of how people are willing to commit, but not to join.
The Budget ducked the hard choices that need to be made.
Plus: Schengen should be suspended. The doctors’ strike is a disgrace. A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark. And: Gove could develop into a fine Conservative leader.
Technical security, good intelligence and confidence in our values saw us through against communism. We need all of them to see the West through this again.
When more than 30 million of us regularly drink wine, why does the pub – not the wine bar – continue to represent political expediency?
Also: SNP shy away from new top rate of income tax despite radical rhetoric; Northern Irish Unionists and liberals avoid commemorations of 1916 rising; and more.
Forget IDS’ Easterhouse modernisation and Osborne’s Soho modernisation. It’s time for Erdington modernisation.
One of my constituents asked me: what’s the point of having MPs if they can’t make this sort of decision? He was right.
Plus: Contrite Soubry. Ashcroft’s Party. The Chancellor’s forecasts and the OBR’s admission. P.S: Re those Clarke memoirs, I admit that I can’t wait to read them.
Time after time, the general population has proved to be wiser than the elites. Until now.
Plus: Soames bottle-feeds the Crouch childlet. Gove’s lesé majeste. And: It’s Ken Clarke’s memoirs – Fifty Shades of Blue.