The legislation that caused the Birmingham bin strikes is set to be expanded to ethnic minorities and disabled people – with similar consequences for taxpayers and public services.
Piketty and Sandel belong to an elite which maintains its privileges by proclaiming its egalitarianism.
If Switzerland suddenly introduced our capital gains and inheritance taxes, it wouldn’t work there either.
Their socialist instinct is to control everything that is taught and how it is taught. Abolishing education programmes that are separate from schools gives them more control over what happens in classrooms.
The horror of what has happened is now widely recognised. The state, which should uphold child safety, instead engaged in a programme of mutilating children.
If you have Conservative Councils wasting staff time and Council Taxpayers money on damaging thought control sessions then what is the incentive to vote Conservative?
Frank Hester’s racist outbursts gives lie to the fallacy that we live in a post-racial society. It is an uncomfortable truth, but through acceptance we can start the process of building one.
The shirkers-versus-strivers narrative around cutting the welfare bill fails to recognise the reality that a quarter of Britons have a disability, and one third have unpaid caring responsibilities.
British Future has been able to project the demographics of the next parliament by putting together retirement patterns and current candidate selection data with the likely electoral map given different election results.
If the new procurement policy means anything at all then it means ideological requirements could trump value for money.
We set out our plan in Policy Exchange’s latest report, What do we Want from the King’s Speech, along with proposals for 13 other Bills.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
I have always been a believer in the broken windows theory: for crime but also for standards more widely. Steve Watson – Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, and a proponent of back-to-basics policing – was right to insist on a smarter dress code.
The assisted dying bill, or more formally ‘The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’, is rapidly making its way through Parliament but is not yet law. So far little has been done to effectively protect those who choose not to support suicide.