Our top ten picks of the week

Badenoch, Milei, and the conservatism of words versus deeds

Henry Hill

“She has purchased unity at the price of perpetuating the irreal politics of hoping to deliver transformational change without having to actually change very much.”

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Britain won’t change course until our very best are prepared to serve in Parliament

Miriam Cates

“At present, they have no desire to make themselves and their families figures of public hate and are uninterested in the ‘super councillor’ role of a modern MP.”

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Reeves needs urgently to make it easier for business to create jobs

Matthew Elliott

“Tackling welfare and getting Britain working shouldn’t be seen a party-political matter, but instead as a national mission.”

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A reshuffle without a story: Tories left unmoved by Badenoch’s shadow cabinet tweak

Tali Fraser

“The pervasive feeling at the heart of many Tory nerves is that “she just doesn’t have the knowledge of where to go next”.”

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I didn’t leave the Labour Party because it changed. I left because it refused to

Chris Worrall

“I hope I am wrong, but every last flicker of hope has been all but extinguished in Labour’s YIMBY movement. Yet those ideas still live on in the Conservatives.”

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If Labour wants growth, it should scrap the Employment Rights Bill

Callum Price

“It cannot be right that our regulatory system means that courts decide if wages are fair rather than a market based on mutual agreement; it certainly isn’t productive.”

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Reflections on the Gove/Cummings legacy for our schools

John Bald

“Cummings and Gove have the satisfaction of knowing that Labour has accepted their main policy objective – academy trusts; is not ditching phonics; and seems unlikely to bring back the AS examination.”

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The Tories and Labour are ‘making plans for Nigel’ but only one might scupper ‘what’s best for him’

Giles Dilnot

“Could it be that as one prominent shadow cabinet member puts it, and that ardent Reform fans will no doubt relish, that the fight in a few years becomes increasingly between the Tories and Reform? It’s not such a remote a possibility as you might imagine.”

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Rural and coastal communities cannot withstand the battering Labour is giving them

Victoria Atkins

“Improving rural life – from economy and infrastructure to housing, education, and healthcare – needs a joined-up government approach. We are working to build that. And I want to hear from you.”

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We need a referendum cap on tax rises from parish councils

Elliot Keck

“In Taunton, the parish council precept increased by 173 per cent from £110 to £299. That is more in both percentage and nominal terms than the increase levied by the unitary authority which they sit under.”

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