Islamists don’t hate us for what we do. They hate us for who we are.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the targeting of Charlie Hebdo and its staff for murder had nothing whatsoever to do with western foreign policy.
Charlie Hebdo. To make truth laugh.
The murderers of Stéphane Charbonnier and his staff understood that freedom isn’t the only challenge to their fanaticism.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Anyone for a game of political football over the health service?
As a spectator sport, this continual tripping, kicking, stamping, striking, biting, gouging and even emasculating of the other side leaves something to be desired.
As Cameron meets Merkel, a list of British characteristics that baffle the Germans
It is important not to fall in to the error of imagining the two countries to be more similar than they really are.
Pritchard is cleared – now Bercow must account for his behaviour
The Speaker’s ill-judged intervention in the case is the latest in a long series of serious errors on his part.
Would we really have had an election by now were it not for the Fixed Terms Parliament Act?
Answer: probably not.
Trust and doubt swing the spending battle in Osborne’s favour
The Chancellor’s cunning strategy forced Labour onto weak territory – and into alienating their own core vote.
LabServative! That Blue-Red Coalition. Cabinet list in full.
Includes five jobshare posts, and returns to the front bench for Ken Clarke, Liam Fox, Tom Watson…and Emily Thornberry.
Labour wins more seats. The Conservatives win more votes. What price electoral reform?
The longer no party can gain no more than about a third of a vote, the louder the debate about changing the system will become.
Downing Street should clarify what will happen in the event of another Hung Parliament
Will Tory MPs be allowed to vote on a second Coalition? Will Party members? Graham Brady’s intervention reminds us that there are yet no answers.
A winning Conservative migration strategy for the next election
The months before an election hold great temptation to make rash and unworkable promises that come back to haunt us. Let’s try something else.
Crosby tunnels behind enemy lines
CCHQ is not giving up on the prospect of snatching seats off Labour and LibDems, though there is a fly in the ointment…
It’s time for the Centre-Right media to get serious about spending cuts
How the deficit is to be reduced matters far, far more than how it is calculated.
The four seats chosen to kick off the General Election campaign
As well as taking a crack at Vince in Twickenham, the PM and Chancellor have been to Halifax, St Austell & Newquay and Telford.
The Conservative push for tactical votes
The LibDems have long squeezed votes from the two bigger parties. Labour has squeezed LibDem ones in the polls. Will the Conservatives now gain too?