The least bad solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol problem – from Sunak’s point of view?
Paul Goodman
“The internal logic of his situation suggests avoiding a revolt featuring the DUP, the ERG – and, especially, the mercurial figure of Boris Johnson.”
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Horseshoe theory, or how McTernan and I can both back a private-sector bedroom tax
Henry Hill
“If local residents have a legitimate interest in whether new housing gets built, the community has a legitimate interest in the efficient use of existing housing.”
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Memo to Gove. Localism and levelling-up don’t always go together.
William Atkinson
“Empowering left-wing leaders is the price that one has to pay for the local experimentation that devolving power and funds entails.”
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Andrew Gimson
“The friendliness and expertise of the IfG’s staff, and the worthiness of its aims, should not obscure its desire to place the fate of ministers in the hands of mandarins”
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Selling surplus public sector land was the key ingredient to the revival of London’s Docklands
Harry Phibbs
“Gove is right to look to the 1980s for lessons. But the danger is that he is learning the wrong ones.”
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Sir John Redwood MP
“Short-sighted overregulation and creative accounting to offshore our CO2 emissions are no way to build a prosperous, sustainable future.”
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Starmer must stand with Duffield, not Russell-Moyle, on women’s rights
Georgia L. Gilholy
“There is no splitting the difference between the centre ground of British public opinion and an extreme minority of activist bullies.”
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Compassion for refugees and a hard line on illegal immigration go hand-in-hand
Tom Hunt MP
“The time has come for us to banish the scandalous small boat crossings to history, break the back of the people smuggling gangs, and prioritise the world’s neediest.'”
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Freeports can deliver for left-behind communities
Virginia Crosbie MP
“Having delivered the tough medicine of the recent Spending Review, the Government needs to focus and expand on this opportunity.”
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The Mayor of London spends £116,000 a year on a Nightlife Tsar while venues continue to close
Luke Black
“In Labour-run Hackney, al fresco dining and drinking is banned after 10 pm. In Labour-run Westminster, al fresco dining and drinking remains banned in Soho.”