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The game isn't really a test of whether millions of adults can tell fiction from reality. They can and always could. It's a test of whether we still trust them to run their own lives without supervision. Thatcher herself called liberty a moral quality, one that carries accountability for how each person uses it. The po
Gathered in Brighton two years on from the best result they’ve had those 72 MPs and many local councillors are starting to ask the question of themselves: What is the point of the Liberal Democrats, what are they for? And is it time to look elsewhere for leadership of their party? The post They aren’t always very democ
ConservativeHome's round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week. The post Our top ten picks of the week appeared first on Conservative Home .
What is troubling for democracy is the apparent lack of interest from all parties in the integrity of the ballot. As anyone ever involved in election campaigns can testify, postal voting is open to abuse, including in connection with ‘family voting’, a previously hidden issue which came onto the radar in Gorton and Den
A visitor levy can appear attractive because the direct payer is supposedly the visitor rather than the resident, and relatively small nightly charge multiplied across many stays could generate substantial revenue. But visitors have choices. The post Bobbie Dove: Lib Dems on Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Maybe the most rebellious thing two politically divided millennials can do in 2026 is sit in a pub, put their phones away and discover they both love the same terrible film. He can find out that she voted Reform later, and they can leave solving the Middle East until at least the third date. The post Arthur Ellis: Has
The Welsh government must mandate that failing schools be taken over by academy trusts; re-introduce school league tables; reform the national curriculum into a knowledge-based one; abolish the use of the cueing method; and implement Etsyn’s recommendations immediately. The post Ellie Craven: Labour’s legacy in Wales i
We know the end of this miserable, sad story. There will be no return to pre-1967 borders. In the coming decades, Palestinian pockets of control will become smaller and smaller. The willingness of the Israeli victors to deal with the Palestinian leadership will wither. Palestinians will become a new diaspora. The post
Paddington bear nationalism is simply not enough to see our way through future conflicts or national crisis. We need something more robust, more resolute. Lucy Powell better get it right, it starts with this next generation: the members of Generation Alpha in our classrooms now. The post Harriet Dolby: Whatever happene
Kemi is popular because of her no-nonsense attitude. She says it how it is, and people like her because, even if they disagree with her, she stays true to her beliefs. If she is so serious about portraying such an image to the public, then break ranks from the rest of the establishment and pledge to scrap the triple lo
For Burnham and for Labour, local government isn’t about giving people choice over how their local area is run, and it isn’t about providing local services either. It’s just another forum for the high-tax, low-accountability politics which informs everything that this Labour Government has done since coming to power. T
I don’t pretend to speak for every 15-year-old, but I do think there are other young people like me who are listening, thinking seriously about politics and asking what is worth preserving. I’m 15. I can’t vote for the country I will inherit, but I can already ask what kind of country I want to pass on. The post Rafael
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