Our top ten picks of the week

Starmer’s push to get children ‘ready for school’ and the state-dependency doom loop

Henry Hill

“What does it means for the politics of personal responsibility if a substantial share of the population simply refuse to take it?”

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Should the Tories distance themselves further from Trump?

Tali Fraser

“Even one of the MPs most critical of Trump commends Badenoch for showing “remarkable but quite proper restraint” and walking the tightrope between opposition and diplomacy.”

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The global rules some thought were set in stone are gone – Conservatives need to find a new way, as Labour can’t

Harry Gillow

“It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that – much as we may need a wholesale re-examination of our domestic statute book – we need the same at the international level.”

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How we are building a new army of Conservative candidates

Kemi Badenoch and Julian Ellacott

“A new cadre of future Conservative MPs who really believe in less tax, less interference, less regulation and a government that does some things well, not lots of things badly.”

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Why you should get involved with the Conservative policy renewal programme

Alex Burghart

“It is time to shift the broken paradigms that have emerged since 1997. The next government must be ready to solve completely the problems set to metastasize under Labour…”

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Standing up for Wales, our Union and our official languages means taking on the language zealots

Darren Millar MS

“Should the plans be implemented, English-medium education will be being phased out entirely in Gwynedd’s schools irrespective of the views of parents and pupils in the local authority area or the best interests of their children.”

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Ignoring the OBR is a valid option, but getting rid of it might be better one

Mark Littlewood

“Sadly, the swift collapse of the Truss administration has led politicians of all stripes to draw exactly the wrong conclusion.”

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The defeat of two-tier justice shows that right-wing lawfare can work

Andrew Dinsmore

“The Sentencing Council and the Labour Party would have you believe that they resolved the problem themselves. That is not true – here is what really happened.”

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Devolution has somehow made Northern Irish bureaucracy less accountable than ever

Lee Reynolds

“A system designed to reduce disability benefit costs by 20 per cent instead increased them by 20 per cent by 2019, costing £1.5-2bn more annually than the DLA system it replaced.”

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Henry Hill

“It’s all very well to bring powers back under democratic control on paper. But they can only be controlled in practice if politicians are prepared to expend the time and energy to actually do so – and that is much less certain.”

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