Our top ten picks of the week

Evasive, indecisive and inconstant: Starmer shows how not to be Prime Minister

Andrew Gimson

“He opens for Badenoch a wide field of action as a leader who can take hard decisions and stick to them.”

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Trump is now underwater on immigration. What can UK politicians learn from this?

Scarlett Maguire

“Trump has an outsized importance on British voters’ psyche, and as the past 14 months have progressed much of the public appear increasingly wary of anything that seems to too closely mimic Trump’s America.”

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The dogged art of making yourself heard when people say they’re not listening

Giles Dilnot

“Take a lesson from my driving instructor: ‘Take space to make space.’ The art of being heard by people who don’t want to listen takes determined calm not frustration. It requires seizing the moment, a tactical swallow of humility and then to “KBO” re-stating your case.”

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Britain is on course for a blasphemy law by the back door, and a recent case might open it

Max Thompson

“Britain abolished its blasphemy laws because they were incompatible with a free society. We understood that beliefs, religious or otherwise, are not entitled to protection from insult, however distasteful.”

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This is a Government of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers. Chagos proves it

John Redwood

“Keir Starmer, a former government lawyer approaches problems by asking what the law, Treaties and internal law requires him to do. The problem is the lawyers helping him often seem to give bad advice, advice which is also unpopular with the public. ”

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What can the Tories take from this by-election?

Tali Fraser

“At their Buckinghamshire away day, Conservatives talked strategy, unity and message. The by-election result – which saw Greens win and Labour pushed into third by Reform – suggests they may need to put them into action sooner than they think.”

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Labour will scrap the two child benefit cap for all the wrong reasons

Helen Whately

“Conservatives believe in a country where work pays. Responsibility is rewarded. And where welfare is a safety net – not a lifestyle choice. That is the difference. Not just over the two-child cap. But over the future direction of Britain itself.”

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Britain’s energy market isn’t working

Sean Ridley

“The only answer is for government to get out the way, make mature technologies stand on their own financially and stop socialising the costs of Ed Miliband’s follies via consumers’ bills.”

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Parliament passes complex new laws – leaving councils with the burden of implementing them locally

Mike Salem

“Enforcement bodies and trading standards report that most UK residents live within minutes of illicit tobacco sources.”

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The resistible rise of Green fascism must not be ignored

Malcolm Gooderham

“The Green wave of anti-Israeli activity is a salutary reminder of an uncomfortable political truth, those on the far Left do not see Jews as a minority worthy of their support. Instead they prefer to isolate and even intimidate them.”

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