James Frayne: The speech that Hammond ought to deliver at the Conservative Party Conference
We need an economic speech for ordinary families.
Garvan Walshe: Grammar Schools: May’s Miners’ strike or her poll tax?
The right strategy could divide and overcome her opponents.
Alex Morton: Patel’s best possible aid policy – access to universal contraception
Aid reform based on ‘efficiency’ is a smokescreen. So a different narrative and approach is needed.
May and Davidson attack Sturgeon’s ‘independence or bust’ nationalism
Also: Tory AM sets out Plaid Cymru vision; Scottish Labour de facto split off; Jones urged to stay on to block Corbynistas from capturing Welsh Labour; and more.
James Frayne: More cameras in courtrooms would give the people greater faith in our justice system
We are allowed to read the most salacious details in the newspapers – why not let us see what goes on for ourselves, in context?
Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: How to re-join the world trading system
There is no reason to suppose that the transition will be anything other than smooth.
Nadhim Zahawi: The Government is right to seek more grammar schools
They will be adding to a diverse state education system far removed from the binary system of the past.
Iain Dale: Brits don’t quit, said Cameron. Then he did.
Plus: I kick-start the Middle East Peace Process (or try to). Why Turkey is a semi-fascist state. I will interview Davis. And: Khan should upgrade, and travel Club Class.
Lewis Baston: The Party Conference season. So often gripping and thrilling – and never more so than this year.
They will be strange, edgy experiences: I can hardly wait.
James Frayne: There’s a better way to reform foreign aid
Value for money invites a brutal battle with the industry and may rub voters up the wrong way. What about fairness for recipients?
Daniel Hannan: Most Remainers are not Remoaners – we must work with the sensible, reasonable majority
It’s easy to think that the loudest voices are typical, when in fact the Izzards, Lammys and Twitter sociopaths are merely a vocal fringe.
Henry Hill: Donors cut off Scottish Labour for weakness on the Union
Also: First Minister of Wales opposes second EU vote; SNP face budget pressures as support for separation stalls; poll deflates Irish nationalists; and more.
James Frayne: Boosting high-level apprenticeships would change more lives than a few new selective schools
There’s a good reason why lower middle class voters want improvements to vocational education.
Andrew Kennedy: The new CCHQ canvass script. Tortuous, winding, time-consuming – and completely invaluable
Once explained, I immediately understood the need to change – but also the need to explain that change to our volunteers if we were going to make it a success.
Iain Dale: White Lives Matter too, because All Lives Matter
Also: Grammar schools are the wrong solution; the SNP boom while Labour slump; and why Davis is right about leaving the Single Market.