Giles Dilnot
“The legal advice given to the Government has been filtered through the lens of the new Attorney General and the Prime Minister, both lawyers steeped in human rights work. Phillipe Sands KC, who has been close to the PM for over 20 years, had been legal counsel to Mauritius since 2010.”
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Will the last Tory to leave please turn out the lights?
William Atkinson
“The Conservative Party is at a tipping point; replacement, irrelevance, and extinction loom. Badenoch is said to be lambasting staff for not campaigning or fundraising hard enough. Physician, heal thyself.”
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Streeting won’t ‘break the culture of the voluntary sector’, but the effort is a noble one
Henry Hill
“He’s bang on the money that too many organisations measure their impact with whether or not targets make it into government programmes rather than actual results, but that isn’t going to change.”
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What can the Conservative Party do that Reform UK can’t? Our survival depends on finding an answer
Peter Franklin
“Farage can outflank Badenoch. Demand a crackdown and he’ll say he’ll crackdown harder. Offer a tax cut and he’ll double it. Unlike the official opposition, no one’s checking his homework so he can prime the earth and howl for the moon.”
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Thirty years ago, two children murdering another was society-shocking. It should be again.
John Oxley
“It is wrong to tolerate or excuse children hurting those around them. In schools, it hinders the education of well-behaved children and drives good, capable teachers out of the profession. On the right, we need to be less ideologically squeamish about getting involved where parents are failing. ”
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Dr Ewan Lawry
“Politics is like the market, if your product isn’t good enough, your customers will shop elsewhere.”
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How Britain’s electricity market can avoid the risk of future blackouts
Lana Hempsall
“The events of January 8, 2025, highlight the urgent need for a pragmatic, diversified energy strategy.”
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Just reversing Labour’sn attack on academies is not enough
Stephen Greenhalgh
“Ending the vandalism of our schools is important. But we then need reforms to extend choice and excellence. Reintroducing Grant Maintained Schools should be central to that. ”
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PMQs sketch: Farage trumps Badenoch on the Chagos Islands
Andrew Gimson
“Starmer paid an unintended compliment to the Reform leader by singling him out for attack.”
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The greatest benefit of Brexit was to show the fault was not in Brussels, but in ourselves
William Atkinson
“Leaving has not been as disastrous as Remainers feared, nor as beneficial as Leavers hoped. It is an unfinished revolution, overtaken by events. A hard rain still needs to fall.”
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