Our top ten picks of the week

A new year for the Conservatives but whether it is happy depends on gaining and maintaining some perspective

Giles Dilnot

“It’s never a waste of time to ask yourselves privately ‘are we getting this right? Is the political prism we’ve tended to view things through, actually right for today’s problems and those coming down the track?”

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Over El-Fattah, the British State has utterly disgraced itself

Daniel Hannan

“Our current legal and political machinery lands the mother of a 13-year-old daughter in prison for over a year over some nasty words online yet pours its energies to rescuing a man who detests Britain.”

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The truth about pornography is we’ve treated it as a marginal vice and ignored its impact

Georgia Gilholy

“What is striking is how selective our outrage has become. We obsess over language and “microaggressions”, while tolerating an industry that eroticises domination and humiliation.”

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The 2026 local elections will be disastrous for Labour

Harry Phibbs

“There was a recent Council by-election in the St Austell and Newquay constituency, which Labour won last year in the General Election. In the Council by-election Labour got nine votes.”

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The domino theory of defections

Brendan Clarke-Smith

“If we focus only on the character of those who left, we risk learning nothing from why they felt able – or compelled – to do so.”

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Like Gladstone Conservatives should let money fructify in the pockets of the people

Andrew Gimson

“There has to be a plan to reform taxation and set people free to do better than the state can do on their behalf.”

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Is the Conservative Party prepared for a new Labour Prime Minister?

Peter Franklin

“While there are no guarantees that Starmer will go next year, Conservative strategists would be well-advised to make contingency plans.”

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James Wright

“Having now forced a partial u-turn, Kemi Badenoch has been vindicated. It goes to show what can be achieved when you stick to your guns.”

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Due diligence is what counts, not trust in the process

Tali Fraser

“If you’re going to grant someone citizenship, perhaps a background check is in order. The European parliament managed to do it before awarding a freedom of thought prize; British citizenship is a bigger prize than that.”

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Why I asked for a Customs Union for Christmas

Alexander Bowen

“A customs union offers then two simple things – a solution to Britain’s disentangling Union (and it really is disentangling) and a quick and noticeable boost to growth, and it does so whilst leaving Britain’s practicable sovereignty no worse off.”

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