Our top ten picks of the week

Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas

Mel Stride

“Realism requires backbone. This government has none. Winter fuel payments: U-turn. Welfare reform: U-turn. The two-child benefit cap: U-turn. Farm taxes, family business taxes, pubs – all U-turns. Whenever pressure mounts, this government folds.”

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Shadow Cabinet League Table: Badenoch may not be popular with Starmer but she’s dominant with Conservatives

Giles Dilnot

“The Conservative leader is literally leading from the front, with one of her highest results in our league table. But the ‘Badenoch bounce’ remains about her, and getting any translation into a rise for the party is still gruelling ongoing work.”

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If a womb transplant can help a woman have a baby, we should celebrate not criticise

Phoebe Arslanagić-Little

“We should be rightly cautious about new procedures and any side effects. Yet we must not allow the opponents of reproductive technology to get away with labelling any and all developments in the field as “exploitative” or “dangerous” ”

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The Night Czar is dead. But for London’s publicans the Night Mayor has only just begun

James Ford

“The crisis engulfing the capital’s hospitality industry and destroying essential jobs is not easing up or going away.”

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Will MPs finally tackle the terrible tax trap?

Tali Fraser

“As their pay rises above £100,000, MPs will feel the full absurdity of Britain’s hidden 60 per cent marginal rate. They may finally rediscover the case for growth.”

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We can make Keir Starmer U-turn yet again, but we need your help

Katie Lam

“Any public inquiry must conduct itself according to its ‘terms of reference’. Unfortunately, the draft terms of reference produced by the Government for the grooming gangs inquiry are fatally flawed.”

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Northern Powerhouse Rail won’t help the North, or power better transport. The Tories have got this wrong

Andrew Gilligan

“Maybe we’re worried that opposing NPR would look anti-North. But though it’s understandably beloved of the profit-scenting construction lobby, and the Labour mayors it has captured – it is in fact a huge obstacle to giving the North the better transport it badly needs.”

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How to use the law to save the Diego Garcia base from Starmer’s bad Chagos deal

Austen Morgan

“The focus should be on legally challenging the second Labour expulsion of the Chagossians.  And, regarding the ninnies in our foreign policy establishment the UK should execute a declaration that the joint Diego Garcia military base does not fall under UNCLOS.”

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Regime change in Iran. Which UK political leaders are on the “right side of history”?

Harry Phibbs

“Those appeasers of the Ayatollahs who are self-styled “progressives” should be treated with derision.”

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Councils are spending more and more on taking children to school in taxis

Elliot Keck

“In Islington, a full nine per cent of children aged 4-10 have autism, up from one per cent in 2015-16.”

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