Our top ten picks of the week

Do the Tories know their own immigration policy?

Tali Fraser

“Six months after its announcement, the Conservatives are arguing over what their own immigration plan actually means – apparently the shadow home office minister doesn’t even understand it.”

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More thinking won’t fix the housing crisis

James Yucel

“Here is the counter argument to Hague: housing is not stuck because we’ve run out of theory – it is stuck because we let people with no sectoral experience design rules for those who do.”

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British Jews, we are on your side

Joy Morrissey

“Many people on the left of British politics – from the Greens to Labour and the Lib Dems – who view themselves as intellectually and morally superior, have ensured a whole generation are growing up viewing Jews as evil.”

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Can broad shoulders bear the UK’s tax burden?

Rafe Fletcher

“The UK’s wealthiest clearly see life as more than a game of hoarding money. But it doesn’t mean they will indulge in an indefinite game of jump and how high with the government. Patience is wearing thin.”

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The case for a compulsory digital ID card just doesn’t stand up

Victoria Stratford

“​This “Brit Card” is a solution in search of a problem. Starmer may believe he’s modernising Britain, but in reality, he’s opening the door to a future where rights are conditional, privacy is optional, and liberty is just another government tickbox.”

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Why are advocates of assisted dying so afraid of involving coroners?

Georgia L Gilholy

“How can we create death-approval bodies without the threat of independent scrutiny from coroners after the death has been carried out?”

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You might not like it, but wrestling political power back from Whitehall means more SpAds

Andrew Gilligan

“For many who would be great in government, pinning themselves to the political dartboard will never be attractive. If you developed spadding as a proper career path, it might tempt them.”

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Starmer was all for transparency in Government – but only when it suits it seems

Robert Jenrick

“He, like many of his Labour colleagues, is ideologically committed to mass migration. When inconvenient facts undermine his assumptions, he tries to stop those facts from being reported.”

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British politics has become as stressful and unpredictable as ‘Celebrity Traitors’

Giles Dilnot

“The political ‘series’, like the TV version is not over yet, it has – bar the utter implosion of Labour  – a few more fraught years to run. The ‘obvious’ winners now, need to stay the obvious winners for another three years, and ‘a week is a long time in politics’.”

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A plan exists to save Britain from its growing debt crisis – but are we brave enough to do it?

Peter Franklin

“We can’t just re-run the austerity messaging of the Cameron-Osborne years. This time the savings plan needs to go hand-in-hand with a growth plan. And as well reducing the size of the state, we need to be reducing demand for the state.”