Our top ten picks of the week

Tali Fraser

“Even if you are supportive of assisted suicide as a principle, as many genuinely seem to be, I cannot imagine looking at this process – the way it has unfurled with U-turns, rushed scrutiny and distorted hearings – and still thinking this is the way it should be done.”

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The big difference between 2016 and 1975? Politicians with a sense of perspective

Daniel Hannan

“The key to being selected as a Conservative candidate in the 1950s was to have “had a good war”, and many of the MPs in the Seventies time still approached politics in a fundamentally soldierly way”

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HS2 is still costing us billions, and has cost us, and this Government more than just money

Greg Smith

“Let’s face it, it needs to be confined to the dustbin of mad ideas that fed into a culture of “government by shiny thing” started by Lord Adonis last time Labour was in power. It’s never too late to admit and repent for mistakes.”

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Jeremy Hunt is right – it’s time to grasp the nettle on mental health benefits

Andy Cook

“The right path begins with acknowledging that equating mental and physical health, though well-meaning, has led to unintended consequences. Changing course will take moral courage.”

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Labour has abandoned any pretence at trying to break the Mexican stand-off on social care

Henry Hill

“The reason the Casey Review needed cross-party talks is that every party needs every other party to be locked in to any useful reforms to avoid a repeat of the 2017 ‘Dementia Tax’ nonsense.”

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Why Starmer’s rape gangs inquiry won’t go far enough

Edward Newsom

“Previous reports have pinned the blame on institutions rather than the people within them. Real justice should always be about confronting uncomfortable truths, not just glossing over them.”

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The Whitehall bureaucracy cannot be reformed: most of it should be abolished

Andrew Gimson

“In her new book Michelle Clement describes the superhuman attempts by Barber under Blair to make public services more responsive.”

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The Tories need to take a gamble. All bets on the younger generation, less on the older

Giles Dilnot

“Stop looking at the older vote, and all that binds that in, and go all out for a pitch to the younger generation. That means shifting some of the incentives towards them, and less support for pensioners.”

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A simple reform to dramatically improve Parliament’s scrutiny of government spending

Andrew Griffith

“In business, I had to work harder to justify a small increase in advertising spend than does the Chancellor vast, debt-fuelling expenditures. We need individual departmental Estimates Day debates.”

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When Sadiq lobbies, London loses

James Ford

“The net result of the Spending Review is that the Mayor of London cannot deliver on his flagship growth plan. Important infrastructure projects have not just stalled but languished on his watch.”

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