Cameron’s House needs a Welcome Mat
The Conservative campaign needs some warmth, uplift and outreach. That means focus on what helped Thatcher and Macmillan to win elections – housing.
The Archbishop of York should talk more about politics
Does His Grace think the welfare reforms may have contributed to the fall in unemployment?
Obama and Cameron team up
The President’s endorsement will come as a blow to Miliband.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Miliband looks more and more like Rumpole
The Leader of the Opposition is so palpably the underdog that he might yet sweep to victory by attracting the sympathy vote.
Blair and On-the-Runs: What price peace in Northern Ireland?
The “peace process” is not a get out of jail free card – whether or not it ever justified handing them out.
On Islamist extremism, Javid’s moderation trumps Farage’s stridency
On this and much else, the son of a bus driver from Pakistan is more likely to deliver than the former stockbroker from Sevenoaks.
Pluralism is the way to bring union barons to heel
If schools employed teachers directly they would be employed on private sector terms, to the benefit of all save their politicised “leadership”.
Anti-semitism rising: a poisonous alliance of prejudice and moral weakness
All too often the bigotry of Islamism is either shared or indulged by parts of the free societies it seeks to destroy.
Cameron’s manifesto list borrows from the ConHome manifesto
Three of his priorities are jobs, housing and retirement. Our three are homes, jobs and savings.
Two thirds. Five sevenths. The proportion of unidentified savings that the two main parties are planning.
A probe of a key question as the election approaches. How big are the spending reductions that each major party requires?
Why not abolish Labour’s four-hour A & E waiting target?
It’s only there because political gain trumped clinical priorities.
Online debates: to fight or fade away
As newspapers team up to offer a line-up that includes the Greens, will Labour’s fear of them offer Cameron a final way out of the election debates?
The horrors in France have at least made clear what we are fighting for
The head of MI5 warns that we too will be attacked. But in the battle for hearts and minds, the barbarity of our opponents is an advantage.
New funding to help combat election fraud in Tower Hamlets – and elsewhere
Sam Gyimah has been fighting the good fight.
Those TV election debates should happen. That they won’t is the broadcasters’ fault – not Cameron’s
Their proposals were and remain unfair to the Greens and the Liberal Democrats – and indeed to everyone else.