Defence – a simmering problem that could boil over for Cameron
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Here’s a game to deflate any Tory’s summer optimism: how many simmering problems can you… Read more »
Twits – and worse – on Twitter
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Mike Weatherley, the MP for Hove, will be on Team Rock Radio today at… Read more »
Cameron’s everywhere – and that ain’t necessarily a bad thing
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Saunter through ConservativeHome’s newslinks this morning, and you’ll notice something: David Cameron is everywhere in… Read more »
The unassuming significance of David Willetts’ statement on profit-making universities
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Bongos, Gibraltar and Mark Carney – all three have set the printing presses roaring today…. Read more »
Peter Cruddas, the Andrew Mitchell of the voluntary party
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Ed Miliband intends to change the way in which trade union members are affiliated… Read more »
Carney’s new focus on unemployment may be well-intentioned, but it neglects the danger and evils of inflation
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Mark Carney's first major announcement as Governor of the Bank of England contains the kind of… Read more »
Greening is right about aid transparency
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Oxfam is undoubtedly right to say that Dame Barbara Stocking, who was paid £119,560… Read more »
Who on earth are British Influence trying to influence?
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. My old friend Peter Wilding of British Influence begins a riposte to Douglas Carswell… Read more »
Osborne’s pro-marriage move is part of the Cameron charm offensive
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. George Osborne is sparing with the appearances on camera, deploying them mostly when he… Read more »
The wave of poverty sweeping Britain’s coastal towns requires urgent action
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. A new report from the Centre for Social Justice, Turning the Tide, explores the troubling wave… Read more »
Two years after the riots: The Government, not David Lammy, are learning the lessons
By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter Two years ago rioting broke out in London and then in other parts of the… Read more »
UKIP’s people are less flawed than its policies
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. 6.30pm Update: I see that the Daily Mail has details of "the UKIP candidate… Read more »
Shale gas is too important to abandon the debate to its scaremongering opponents
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Another day, another front page row about fracking. This time the Mail on Sunday has gone… Read more »
Labour are rattled by the Conservatives hiring world class election strategists
By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter Jim Messina, a veteran of the Obama Campaign, has been hired by the Conservatives to… Read more »
Why can’t we be told how many members the Conservative Party has?
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. CCHQ's main reason for not releasing the number of members who voted to select… Read more »