Our top ten picks of the week

The revolving door of justice is breaking Britain’s social contract

Lawrence Newport

“In case after case, we see offenders with 50, 80, 100 or more convictions receiving tiny prison sentences, or even simply walking free without jail time.”

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The Conservatives’ attack on Labour’s ‘housing blitz’ shows a party which has learned zero lessons

Henry Hill

“The Attlee Government’s nationalisation of planning in 1948 has been an absolute disaster for Britain – yet it is the Tories who are now its strongest soldiers.”

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Britain has an industrial policy – but at the moment, it’s made in China

Gavin Rice

“We need a targeted regional strategy, policies to boost exports, and reform of capital markets to deploy British savings more productively.”

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The new Tory MPs are fed-up and furious

Tali Fraser

“Almost a year since the general election and the few new Tory MPs elected in the party’s historic drubbing last July are unhappy, to put it kindly – whether it is about a lack of engagement with leadership, the old guard clocking out, or misplaced focus while the party seems to be on a death spiral.”

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Can Anglofuturism save the Conservative Party?

Peter Franklin

“At heart, Anglofuturism’s challenge to us is this: what if the great limiting factor of our national life in the 2020s isn’t slow growth or escalating debt or even demographic decline, but a smallness of vision?”

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The night I had to tell a couple their son had died from knife crime

Neil Shastri-Hurst

“We need a three-phase approach to tackle the problem: through effective prevention, tougher enforcement and sentencing, and rehabilitation. Now as an MP, I will be making the argument for this approach as effectively and persuasively as I possibly can, so no-one has to have the conversation I had to.”

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Spending Review sketch: Reeves dismays even her own colleagues

Andrew Gimson

“She refused to take the House into her confidence, claimed she has fixed the foundations, and if she hasn’t will have to go.”

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Labour’s business problem is very much a Conservative opportunity

Andrew Griffith

“Whilst other parties compete about how to expand the state even more, we will create a country where through lower taxes and fewer regulations, we can re-ignite the spark of everyone’s ambition.”

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Ignore rumours, the fact is donors, both large and small, are supporting our renewal

Dominic Johnson

“I have been raising money for this great institution for over 16 years now and there is no doubt that in terms of our finances, we are in a far better place than most credit us. We raised £3.3m in the first quarter of this year.”

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‘But already it was impossible to tell which was which’

Henry Hill

“Confronted with a choice between cutting the least-defensible welfare spending or letting the entire rest of the state fall to pieces, it turns out Labour aren’t that different from us.”

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