Our top ten picks of the week

The way the Government has handled the Mandelson appointment is unbelievable – in every sense of the word

Giles Dilnot

This whole saga goes to the heart of the decision making, quality control, fact checking, and judgement within this Labour administration. Mandelson for Starmer, the last man standing in the bloodletting since it all blew up, has gone from Prince of Darkness to Banquo’s Ghost.

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The Starmer question

Tali Fraser

Behind the calls for his resignation lies a quieter hope for some Tories that Sir Keir Starmer limps on, dragging Labour down with him.

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The priggish PM is worsted by an Anglican official

Andrew Gimson

Starmer’s self-righteousness, and refusal to explain why he sent Mandelson to Washington, have become intolerable.

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The triple lock just isn’t that big a deal

Alexander Bowen

That really is the failure of British pension policy – not the absence of means-testing, not outsized outflows, not arbitrary locks – is the failure of previous generations to plant trees under whose shade they shall never sit.

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It’s time to take Green voters seriously

Peter Franklin

If the Left-of-centre vote collapses from Labour to the Greens and the Tory-Reform psychodrama continues to divide the Right, then we be losing more of our heartlands, not winning them back.

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My vote in the local elections won’t count, but it could be so different

John Oxley

Our electoral system means that perhaps two-thirds of the electorate could find themselves shut out, and there is no opposition to speak of.

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Croydon is back on track. Now we need to keep it there.

Jason Perry

I’m proud of what we’ve achieved together. But I’m even more focused on what comes next: continuing to rebuild our finances, unlocking further investment, improving our town centre, and making sure every part of Croydon shares in our recovery.

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Why you should take “voting intention polls” with a pinch of salt

Lord Ashcroft

Some have accused me of artificially inflating the Tories’ in my surveys. I’m not, as what would be the point of producing polls suggesting your party is doing better than it really is? It was to counter such “comfort polling” that I got into the business in the first place.

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The Conservative argument for a wealth tax

Anakin England

Unequal concentrations of wealth could enable monopoly-like distortions on asset values, interest rates, rents and would end market competition. Reasonably then, there must be a limit on the proportion of wealth held by a minority before it starts to jeopardise normal market function.

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The Welfare bill is more than twice what we spend on our own defence – that can’t go on

Helen Whately

We have drifted from a culture of “I can because I must” to a culture of “I can’t” — stripping people of agency and turning them into victims. It is time to turn that around. To invest in the defence of the realm over the benefit state. We can, because we must.

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