The effect of the train strikes on attendance, the trauma of recent years, and the change in the nature of the Tory Conference itself leave the question hanging.
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
We could just abandon some of our costlier spending commitments — for instance, the triple lock, or having a navy. But I’m assuming that when Tories talk about shrinking the state they have weight-loss in mind not amputation.
A lower tax burden will be impossible without less supply of government. And for there to be less supply, there must first be less demand.
The campaign against the paper is not so much about a headline last week, but about shifting the balance of media power to the left.
We shouldn’t be indifferent to inequality of outcome when it has been gained unfairly at the expense of others.
It’s au revoir – though not, we hope, adieu – to the Deep End.
We won’t complain if the Chancellor reduces the top rate further. But the trade-off should be fairer property and pensions taxation.
Record employment is the jewel in the crown of this Government’s five-year term.
The longer no party can gain no more than about a third of a vote, the louder the debate about changing the system will become.
The idea of a permanent revolution spurred by an anti-big business Conservative government is a nightmare on a par with Miliband’s anti-capitalist rampage.
The alternative to building lots of homes in many places is build lots of homes in a few places: this would certainly lessen, or at least limit, the political penalty involved.
It’s a good time to revisit our recent series on the Coalition’s successes and failures. Marks out of ten included.
Jonathan Algar, Antonia Cox, Nick Faith, Peter Franklin, David Green, Peter Hoskin, Andrea Leadsom MP, Andrew Lilico and Simon Richards assess the Chancellor’s work.