PETER HITCHENS says David Cameron set up the original Leveson Inquiry in a short-sighted attempt to look good. By the time he realised he had created a great clanking, devouring monster, it was too late to stop. He was responsible for what will come to be seen as one of the stupidest and most shameful moments in British political history.
The current blast of cold weather has shown that we have worrying gaps in our energy plans.The prominence of green policy has prevented the David Cameron's government making plans for the future.
Strained relations between Boris Johnson and David Cameron will not be eased when the London Mayor watches Michael Cockerell’s revealing BBC film tomorrow about him and his affair with writer Petronella Wyatt.
Ex-barrister turned stay-at-home mother Laura Perrins criticised Nick Clegg live on radio this week, but VIV GROSKOP argues that losing child benefit is not the biggest problem facing families today.
AMANDA PLATELL: Who could have imagined that when David Cameron launched his vision for a Big Society, he would end up making one key part of that society feel utterly excluded? Not the feckless, not the dole scroungers, not illegal immigrants, not bankers... but mums who have decided that the best way of raising their children is to stay at home.
One of the lessons we all learn eventually is the correct answer to the question: can 100 leading experts really be wrong? That answer, of course, is a most emphatic 'Yes'. Writes TOM UTLEY.
MICHAEL GOVE speaks out against the 'Marxist' critics of his government's education policies. He writes that some teachers and academics want the education system to remain dumbed down.
Ex-barrister turned stay-at-home mother Laura Perrins criticised Nick Clegg live on radio this week, but Viv Groskop argues that losing child benefit is not the biggest problem facing families today.
As the country was hit by snow and freezing weather yesterday, analysts warned that Britain's gas reserves could run out in only 36 hours - leaving us at the mercy of expensive foreign imports.
Ed Miliband’s shameful reaction to the Budget and his support for state regulation of the Press proves that a government led by him would be motivated by spite, dishonesty and be utterly incompetent, writes SIMON HEFFER.
MARY ELLEN SYNON: Judging by the mood of the people of Cyprus, Greece and Italy in particular, they've had all the pain they can take. The crowds are on the streets in their thousands. Now all they need are leaders.
Our instinctive reaction has been that Britain is a relentlessly racist country bent on thwarting the lives of ethnic minorities, that the only decent policy is to throw open our doors to all and that those with doubts about how we run our multi-racial society are guilty of prejudice. And that view - echoed in Whitehall, Westminster and town halls around the country - has been the prevailing ideology, setting the tone for the immigration debate. But for some years, this has troubled me and, gradually, I have changed my mind.
Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and John Scarlett committed what seems to some of us a heinous political crime. They concocted a false manifesto to justify taking Britain to war, writes MAX HASTINGS.
Days after the installation of the Pope, Canterbury yesterday enthroned its own new Archbishop in a service with bongo drums and a Punjabi melody, writes QUENTIN LETTS.
MAX HASTINGS: Most of us recognise the Coalition's leaders as decent men, doing their best. Their Labour counterparts, by contrast, seem incapable of grasping the magnitude of what is happening.
STEPHEN GLOVER: One of Twitter's few recommendations is that it shows us that famous people, whom we might otherwise have respected, have even more banal and half-witted thoughts than we do ourselves.
Two striking images of defiance leapt out of the pages of yesterday’s Daily Mail. The first was that of banker Rich Ricci, the second was that of Ronnie Biggs giving a pathetic V-sign. But are they really all that different? Writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.
Now we know why the Chancellor felt it was worth making Mark Carney, the incoming Governor of the Bank of England, the highest-paid head of a central bank anywhere in the Western world, writes ALEX BRUMMER.
'You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?'
Boris Johnson is mauled by BBC presenter Eddie Mair as he refuses to confirm he wants to be PM
At least some people are having fun in the cold!
Guests and staff have been snowed-in at isolated North Yorkshire pub since WEDNESDAY
The wealth gap on your doorstep
Study reveals Britain's most economically divided neighbourhoods where rich and poor live 'cheek by jowl'
Stripped naked and made to perform a sex act on her boss's fiance
How McDonald's worker fell victim to bizarre and cruel hoax
Young driver in his 20s in 'critical condition' after crashing his Audi TT into side of house
Now it's Anders Breivik the musical
British playwright unveils new drama setting Norway massacre in Scotland
The party was in full swing as hundreds of Russian girls turned up for the weekly Ladies' Night at the 7 Seas club on Wednesday. But the truth is that the fun might not last very long, reports SUE REID from Cyprus.
A recent survey said that 80 per cent of vehicles in the town centre car parks are there all day. But this means there is no room for shoppers. Another blow for the town. And we all know what happens from here, writes MARTIN SAMUEL.
The capitalists will sell us the rope on which we hang them, said Vladimir Lenin. And for his successor in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Cyprus shows the truth of that maxim, writes EDWARD LUCAS.
STEVE DOUGHTY: We all need a dab of help with our self-regulation, as almost every MP agrees, so it’s encouraging to find that the BBC is setting a good example...
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