Our top ten picks of the week

Living on a Thin Line

William Atkinson

“As lovely as my three years have been, I can’t say that I leave the Tory Party in a better state than I found it. If only you knew how bad things really are.” 

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Seven in ten Tory members back putting troops in Ukraine – and cutting spending to boost defence

Henry Hill

“Just over seven in ten panellists back putting troops on the ground in one form or another, with a quarter saying they would do so even if it meant engaging in combat with the Russian Army.”

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Are Reform serious people? Or are they just making a good job of sounding it

Giles Dilnot

“Ripping wires out is easy, but you need to know the blueprints of the machine that doesn’t work, to rewire it so it does, and they don’t.”

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Want to rebuild the party’s fortunes? Get sane MPs, with stable personal lives

Andrew Gilligan

“We could start by recognising that the way we chose our candidates, and the way we treated them when they became MPs, is part of the reason so many went off the rails.”

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Britain and Europe are not remotely ready to heed Vance’s wake-up call

Miriam Cates

“We have squandered our inheritance. We have forgotten what is good and true and pursued instead those things that we wish to be good and true but are not.” 

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Labour seem determined to drive up unemployment, again

John Oxley

“The plans fail to contend with the reality of the decisions employers have to make – if it is too costly and burdensome to take someone on, you simply won’t.”

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In building our defences, we can build our economy. But who will take the opportunity?

Alexander Bowen

“Trotsky may have said that war was the locomotive of history but if played right, war – or at least our efforts at preventing it – could be the locomotive of our industry.” 

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The Quangocracy has mutated into something that blocks effective government

Patrick King

“Only around 250 people in departments are responsible for holding to account bodies that spend billions of pounds and together employ around 390,000 people. ”

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Want better behaved Tory MPs? Decide what we’re looking for in candidates and ministers

John Penrose

“No team performs well if some of its players are rubbish, or decide they want to play a different style from everybody else, or are too busy signing autographs to get on the pitch.”

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A Conservative case for an independent football regulator

Zak Wagman

“Football clubs have a loyal customer base that they know they can forever rely upon. If I shop at Tesco’s, but they start to let me down, or even fold, I will pop next door to Sainsbury’s without much hesitation.”

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