Mark Lehain is Director of the Campaign for Common Sense, and the founder and former Principal of Bedford Free School. While the media and Westminster insiders have been excited about all the Cummings and goings at Number 10, one has to wonder what the rest of the...
Dolly Theis: Why Government policy on obesity affects us all
Dolly Theis is completing her PhD at Cambridge University’s MRC Epidemiology Unit. She contested Vauxhall in the 2017 general election. This article is the first of a mini-series of three about obesity policy that I have written for Conservative Home this week....
Mark Lehain: “The Government stands unequivocally against critical race theory.” The significance of Badenoch’s speech this week.
Mark Lehain is Director of the Campaign for Common Sense, and the founder and former Principal of Bedford Free School. On Tuesday, towards the end of an otherwise run-of-the-mill debate on Black History Month in the Commons, Kemi Badenoch said the following: “I want...
Prime Minister set to give minister the power to veto the removal of statues, plaques, and memorials
Advertisements Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to give a minister the power to veto the removal of statues, plaques, and memorials across the country, to help guard against campaigners and politicians “bullying” local officials into removing public monuments of...
Iain Dale: If Milling isn’t up to being Party Chairman, why was she appointed in the first place?
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. I have to admit that I didn’t watch any of the Conservative virtual conference online. Judging by the number of registrations, it can be deemed a success. Twenty thousand...
Iain Dale: Covid-19. There is no good reason why the arts sector should get a billion pound bailout while coach operators do not
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. Like most of you (I hope) I was absolutely appalled by the US Presidential debate on Wednesday. I stayed up to watch it, last I have done for virtually every debate of...
Rachel Wolf: Net Zero risks upending our lives and livelihoods. Here’s why carbon pricing gives it a better chance of working.
Rachel Wolf is a partner in Public First. She had co-charge of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. She was an education and innovation adviser at Number 10 during David Cameron’s premiership and was founding director of the New Schools Network. Worrying about the state...
The Conservatives should watch for a rival to their right
Many pixels and much paper have been spent trying to explain UKIP and, briefly, the Brexit Party. Some see them as having been driven mainly by economics, and the effect of the financial crash and techological change on living standards, jobs and security. Others...
Bella Wallersteiner: Let the young work, play and be free of the rule of six – while older people learn to live with the virus
Bella Wallersteiner is Senior Parliamentary Assistant to Greg Smith MP. The social compact is crumbling: for the first time since the 1960s young people are challenging the fundamental tenets that hold society together. This is not the sneering anarchy of the Sex...
Darren Grimes: Not even Charles Moore can save the BBC
Darren Grimes is a political commentator and is content creator at Reasoned UK. When the former editor of the Guardian and exemplar of metropolitan liberalism, Alan Rusbridger, tweets about it being “inconceivable that someone fined for refusing to pay a licence fee”...
