The Tories must not abandon independent schools

Gove’s drive to extend to the state sector the freedoms enjoyed by fee-paying schools should be extended to allow academic selection.

What should be done about party funding? Take our survey to have your say.

Also: all the usual questions about electoral pacts, the Coalition, ministers and more.

Against tactical voting

There are two reasons not to take this route if one has a strong party preference. One comes from the head, the other from the heart.

Straw, Rifkind, outside interests – and the law of unexpected consequences

We want MPs who don’t earn outside the Commons and aren’t paid more by the taxpayer and are people of real ability. But it’s impossible to have all three at once.

The triviality of this election campaign, the seriousness of events abroad

Fox calls on the Government to arm Ukraine. What does Cameron think?

What future awaits UKIP’s libertarians?

Its strategists are chasing the disaffected working class and the media is starting to write libertarianism out of the party script.

Are we psychologically prepared for the rest of the 21st Century?

ISIS, Putin, the prospect of an end to antibiotics…are we really prepared for how tough the coming decades might be?

May and McVey, negative campaigning – and the women factor

Does their discontent reflect a better understanding on the part of female Ministers of how female voters are likely to receive messages?

You MUST read TheGoodRight NOW

It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.

Unemployment falls again

Voters may suspect that Conservatives only care about those at the top – but falling unemployment helps those stuck at the bottom.

Oborne’s resignation. The firepower is spectacular. But is it well targeted?

The weight of his new charge – that fewer truths are now told by the mainstream media – is greater than the evidence that supports it.

Here comes The Good Right

Tim Montgomerie and Stephan Shakespeare’s new project is a radical, inventive and long-termist injection into Conservative thinking.

The challenge for the Conservatives in Wales

The party’s position in Wales has recovered strongly since 1997, but evidence suggests that there remain barriers to further progress.

Which poses the bigger threat? Extreme Islamism or Putin’s Russia?

Should our priority be to build up our conventional forces for action abroad, or to have them poised for rapid response here at home?

Infantilised Ministers

Good government comes second to short-term interests. That’s the logic of the new Gold Star system for Ministerial campaigning.