Our top ten picks of the week

Inside the young Tories’ plot for a Conservative revival

Tali Fraser

The Conservative Party must “embrace a new radicalism” and “significantly accelerate” its renewal if it is to be ready for power by 2029, according to a bold new report from a group of Tory rising stars.

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Pastries and coffee are where we seem to have got to with the normalisation of anything anti-jewish

Giles Dilnot

Today, arguing the rights and wrongs of the Middle East’s problems, especially if those rights are Palestinian and the wrongs anybody with the remotest connection to a being jewish, is made both virtuous and acceptable in a newspaper and our wider public discourse.

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Donald Trump is not our friend and all parties should be wary of being too close

David Gauke

Wanting the US action against Iran to replace an evil regime with something much better is one thing, but the odds were always that is not going to be the case.  In such circumstances, reticence in supporting the US was not a moral failure, but perfectly sensible.

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What’s wrong with the Foreign Office – and how to put it right

Bob Seely

It goes without saying that the current crop of Labour ministers and the Prime Minister, have doubled down on almost every negative trend and trait.

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The problems Cameron and Osborne made for Conservatives by being the ‘heirs to Blair’

Andrew Gilligan

Tory centrism might at some point be due a comeback. It is the obvious gap in the market. But unless it learns from these and its other mistakes, it ain’t happening.

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Cars are hardly Oxford Street’s biggest problem, so why does the Mayor insist on pretending they are?

James Ford

I believe that his misdiagnosis of the West End’s woes is deliberate and cynical; the pretext for a shameless power grab.

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A Tory revival lies in the centre-right not on the failing altar of the New-Right

Kristian Guise

With May Elections in the forefront of my mind I’d argue a Tory revival lies in the centre-right not on the failing altar of the New-Right.

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Stop building affordable housing – build subsidised instead

Neil Garratt and Luke Robert Black

If developers make a profit, they are more incentivised to build communities and, importantly, increase their risk appetite. By ensuring stronger returns, we are more likely to see more diversity, more beauty and, chiefly, higher quality homes for Londoners.

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Labour’s attack on jury trials will change our Constitution

Nick Timothy

The modern left-wing project has always wanted to transform Britain from a political constitution into a legal constitution. Less power in the hands of citizens and their representatives. More power to officials and regulators.

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Why I’m standing to be a councillor for Mile End

Israt Sawda

Tower Hamlets has presided over waste, gross misconduct, and financial mismanagement for too long. Residents deserve a councillor who will scrutinise decisions properly and hold the council to account.

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