To be the party of opportunity, Conservatives must be the party of YIMBYs May 7, 2025 Britain’s housing shortage is now so severe that even if we hit Labour’s now abandoned building target, it would still take half a century to close the gap, says Sir Simon Clarke Last night I was delighted to launch Conservative YIMBY (“Yes In My Back Yard”), a campaign group which aims to transform Conservative attitudes [...]
UK universities should focus on excellence, not DEI May 7, 2025 The UK university sector won’t solve it’s financial problems by prioritising diversity goals over research quality, says Paul Ormerod The university sector in the UK often seems to live in a dream world. Research England, for example, is proposing to order them to “robustly” promote diversity and inclusion in order to qualify for access to [...]
Labour’s digital ID by the backdoor will be a honey pot for hackers May 7, 2025 Labour's attempt to usher in digital IDs via the backdoor is in urgent need of scrutiny, writes Jasleen Chaggar.
Reform surge has reshaped the political landscape May 7, 2025 Reform successfully capitalised on voter frustration to achieve success at the local elections. How they handle the levers of power – and how the Conservatives respond – will define politics for years to come, says Brandon Lewis A few months ago I wrote about how Reform UK’s rise would reshape the political landscape. At the [...]
How quantum computing could save the NHS May 6, 2025 Quantum computing shoul be embedded into the daily lives of doctors on the NHS frontline, writes Ilyas Khan.
Tories take note: Reform will come at Labour from the left May 6, 2025 As the dust settles on the local elections, party leaders will be busy trying to identify the right lessons. For the Conservatives, the picture is both clear and complicated. As Kemi Badenoch put it, her party faced a “bloodbath” in councils across the country. That’s the clear bit. The complicated bit concerns what she should [...]
Why shrimp deserve compassion too May 6, 2025 They may be ugly and unappealing, but shrimp – farmed in vast quantities in squalid conditions – deserve ethical consideration, says Phoebe Arslanagic-Little I can buy a box of supermarket eggs for 15p an egg. Instead, I have a crate of eggs couriered to me, once a month, from a farm in Lancashire called Oakstream [...]
Labour can beat Reform by rebuilding public services May 6, 2025 Labour’s path to electoral victory lies in tangible public service improvements. Modern Public Private Partnerships could be the key to delivering results without breaking fiscal rules, say former Labour cabinet ministers Alan Johnson and Lord Hutton There are two answers for a government under threat from Reform. You try to outflank them on the right [...]
Farage’s first real test: can Reform govern? May 6, 2025 After storming to success in the local elections, Reform now holds real positions of power – so what does it intend to do with it? Asks Emma Revell Many column inches will be spent poring over what the local elections mean for our supposedly two-party system, whether Labour or the Conservatives have most to lose [...]
Kemi Badenoch must quit now to save the Conservative Party May 5, 2025 Last week’s local election results were an extinction-level event for the Conservative Party. To prevent Nigel Farage becoming the real leader of the British right, Kemi Badenoch must resign now, says William Atkinson Amid stiff competition from their Canadian and Australian counterparts, the Conservatives’ local election disaster was the worst performance for a centre-right party [...]