Coalition worries that Alex Salmond’s personal popularity could nudge Scotland to independence
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Opinion polls over a long period have found most Scots against independence. The usual… Read more »
42% would never vote Conservative
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. There have been some terrible opinion poll results for Ed Miliband in recent times… Read more »
What’s the big economic idea, George?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. The view in Downing Street is that Ed Miliband is unelectable. The YouGov survey… Read more »
Who’s winning in the battle between Right Minds and Telegraph Blogs?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Always angry but with a great instinct for middle Britain, Paul Dacre edits what… Read more »
David Cameron’s real foreign policy
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter If all one knew of foreign policy was gleaned from institutes, think-tanks, centres and… Read more »
The Right was right about free enterprise, crime and the €uro. It’s right about climate change today.
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. This week's Spectator trails a Peter Oborne pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies…. Read more »
“The Boris Reds”: Johnson’s Labour supporters are the key to defeating Ken Livingstone
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Fascinating piece of analysis from YouGov's Peter Kellner in the new edition of Prospect… Read more »
Cameron’s ‘invest in Great Britain’ message to world business leaders
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Some of the 'Britain is Great' posters. Others celebrate Britain's universities. David Cameron sees… Read more »
Would Cameron have won an October 2010 General Election?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Interesting claim from Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat President, on this morning's Today programme…. Read more »
Should we worry about the Liberal Democrats’ attempts to retoxify the Tory brand?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. What are we to make of the constant attacks on the Conservative Party from… Read more »
Huhne’s speech – and why we need a Centre for Social Justice, green-style
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter The politics of Nigel Lawson's argument on climate change, set on in his book… Read more »
Cameron and Clegg clash over the most over-hyped issue in the Middle East
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter As I've written before, the significance of the Israel-Palestine conflict is grotesquely over-hyped. Orthodoxy… Read more »
Deregulation – the missing idea in Vince Cable’s speech
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left-leaning speech to the… Read more »
Business leaders are mobilised in favour of the Government’s planning reforms
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter We featured on our front page this morning two stories about the Coalition's national… Read more »
Mark Pritchard shows why we are moving closer to a referendum on Europe
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Mark Pritchard urges a renegotiation referendum The Secretary of the 1922 Committee's Executive has… Read more »