Too often, we still take our democratic rights for granted.
Few people want to stop skilled workers coming to the UK. But many voters understandably want better integration of new arrivals.
Capping the value of land adjacent to a new motorway, and recouping a charge from those who develop it, would help fund essential new roads.
We are becoming a society in which contact with officialdom routinely involves decent people being punished for petty infractions of unreasonable laws.
We must show people how markets can make life better for ordinary families by broadening choice, spurring innovation, and driving down prices.
Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.
The modern state is intended to restrain those who seek a monopoly on power. Such people naturally resent it when that system works.
More powers for Andy Street in the West Midlands should just be the start.
Tim Montgomerie’s new project is big, bold, and imaginative. But how will a journal that doesn’t do news get cut-through? And will it really do so?
Individually, migrants can come to embody these values better than many on the Left who were born here. But the evidence suggests that this takes time.
The endless disparaging references to ‘the Tories’ is not a smear on a particular MP or activist branch, but on the millions of their fellow citizens.
The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.
Big business has become too reliant on the drug of cheap labour from abroad. It should start preparing to kick the habit now.
Reform must be phased, to allow farmers to adapt, but it will pay dividends.