Conservative Party
All to Play For as Cameron Wobbles
For two years, a Conservative victory looked to be a done deal — then the polls narrowed. Are the voters having second thoughts?
Will the Tories Give us the Schools We Deserve?
The Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Michael Gove, and the former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, discuss the Conservatives’ reform plans with Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint
Blond’s Encyclical
The policies of Phillip Blond, David Cameron’s ‘philosopher king’, are confused and wooly
Sovereign State
It will be an unmitigated disaster if the Conservative Party doesn’t honour its commitment to a Sovereignty Act
Why the Pollsters Won’t See a Cameron Landslide Coming
Over at politicalbetting.com, Mike Smithson notices something odd about the Greens. They do far better in opinion polls than they do in actual elections. “Looking over polling which can be tested against real results,” he says, “there does appear to be something of a pattern – more Green supporters seem ready to tell pollsters that they will vote for the party than actually do so.”
Balancing Rights Against the Right
My column in the new print edition of Standpoint reveals that the Tories’ policy on human rights is not as radical as they would like us to think it is.
Colour Me Angry
As a black Conservative parliamentary candidate, my choice of party is often met with either surprise or sneers
Resurrecting Thatcher’s Finances
‘The Conservatives should reintroduce the Medium-Term Financial Strategy that Thatcher championed and Brown dropped’
Broken Pension Promises
‘The idea that diligent citizens have been putting away money for their retirement with National Insurance contributions is a myth’
Retaining Rights
‘The Tories admit that their British Bill of Rights will have to be compatible with the European Convention’
Only Congress can tame Beijing’s bloody instincts
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom is inspirational. But outsiders must help by challenging police violence
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
The riddle of the car bomb and the lucky gambler
Investigating the assassination of a Maltese journalist has been a masterclass in legal ping-pong