Three lessons from today’s net immigration figures
It now looks almost certain the Government will fail to meet its pledge to cut the numbers
Going green shouldn’t mean growth-damaging, consumer-hitting, supply-threatening targets
It is not denial of the human role in climate change to believe that they cripple growth, spur rent-seeking, and heap costs on the poor.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Miliband has abandoned the economic battlefield
But Cameron too often sinks to his opponent’s petty partisan level.
Conservatives will never show they are pro-worker by being anti-posh
Class war should be left to mean and envious socialists
Should aid money be spent on Britain’s flood victims? Which politicians have responded well to the crisis?
These questions, and more, feature in our March survey. You can take the survey by following the link in this post.
If the Conservative Party rebranded, what should its new name be?
Progressive Conservatives? Radical Thatcherites? The John Major Workers’ Party? You choose.
The consequences if Cameron rules out a post-2015 coalition
Would it be better to have a second Tory-LibDem coalition stretching to 2020, or a stand-alone policy that could put Miliband in Downing Street before then?
Angela Merkel may have a doppelgänger
According to reports, both the eurosceptic Chancellor and her europhile evil twin will visit London this week.
An alliance with AfD in the European Parliament shouldn’t be ruled out
Merkel would be annoyed, but Germany’s new Euro-sceptic party is painfully respectable and would make a suitable partner for the Tories.
Beware claims of a “Ukrainian Spring”
The illusion that that good and evil are reducible to the TV image of the moment is just that – an illusion.
Cameron v Miliband: the three TV debates we need
Voters deserve the chance to see the two potential Prime Ministers go head to head. (If they don’t want to, they can always plump for the off switch.)
The Government has borrowed £90.7 billion this financial year – so far
We are due to have a balanced budget by 2018/19 – by then the National Debt will be £1.6 trillion.
The Tories will talk a lot about Wales in the election campaign
This year politicians have a focus on Scotland. But in the 2015 UK General Election campaign Wales will figure prominently.
Clegg has challenged Farage. Now Hague should challenge Clegg.
If the Deputy Prime Minister really wants a debate on Europe, let the Foreign Secretary give him one. Furthermore, both men could clear up a few mysteries…
To win the referendum, Salmond desperately needs to be bullied by Cameron
Andrew Gimson tests the temperature in the Central Bar in Leith