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Our top ten picks of the week
17+ hour, 30+ min ago (545+ words) By focusing on rough sleepers, Burnham distracts us, and himself, from the real problem No party shows the slightest sign of knowing how to get so many houses built now. It is reasonable to doubt whether Burnham will be any…...
Ffinian Elliott: Strong walls, but a weaker State - smaller government is where the UK should head
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (327+ words) When one visits Washington D.C., the buildings that symbolise the kind of democracy fitting of a modern republic have a common theme. Their buildings are much like castles, fortified to the extreme, both for legitimate safety concerns, but also as a…...
Reva Gudi: No ID is required for NHS care, but GP receptionists should not be immigration officials
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1132+ words) Dr Reva Gudi is GP and healthcare leader in Hayes, Middlesex, she is also a former Conservative parliamentary candidate, and serves as a local school governor and charity trustee. My Practice Manager looked hassled. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “I’ve just…...
Sarah Ingham: Where's the planning for drought? Never mind the 'dreamcoat' just be more Joseph
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (684+ words) Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. Little better reflects the brokenness of Britain than headlines about towns at risk of running out of drinking water. Much of England’s parched…...
Jon Hollis: Why the tigers on the Right can???t 'all just get along"
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (309+ words) Jon Hollis is a commentator, a Senior Researcher for the City Hall Conservatives, and a former Association Chairman. Last week two pieces were published arguing in favour of uniting the Right. In The Daily Telegraph Allister Heath claimed that “This…...
David Rogers: Local government reorganisation in Oxfordshire will prove a costly folly
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (920+ words) Cllr David Rogers is the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group on Cherwell District Council. Labour’s decision to impose a three-unitary model on Oxfordshire is a triumph of politics over common sense. Each existing authority fully engaged in the process…...
Maurisa Coleman: A Prime Minister only the North really knows needs to explain himself to Parliament, now
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (644+ words) The real question, therefore, is not whether Burnham is entitled to inherit the office of Prime Minister. He plainly is. It is what happens when the programme pursued by the new Prime Minister begins to look substantially different from the…...
Adrian Pascu-Tulbure: Take a gander at Labour???s calls to rewire the state and we should all beware
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (592+ words) Cllr Adrian Pascu-Tulbure is deputy leader of the Conservative opposition in Hammersmith and Fulham Plucking geese is not a core competency often seen on Treasury job descriptions. But every good HMT official would recognise the maxim of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis…...
Ed Hezlet: Expensive power could really spark economic decline in the UK - but there's a solution
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (650+ words) Ed Hezlet is Head of Energy at Onward. The UK’s expensive electricity is weighing on the nation. Rising bills are repressing the discretionary income of British households and high industrial electricity prices are discouraging investment and economic growth. We have…...
By focusing on rough sleepers, Burnham distracts us, and himself, from the real problem
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (872+ words) Roy Kerridge wrote about parts of the British Isles which most journalists never see. In 1977 he got a job as a lavatory attendant in a town on the south coast of England, and became friends with a tramp, Commander Williams,…...