Sports Calendar

Resist urge to throw voters red meat

The Tory lead is shrinking, but don’t forget how much the old Tory brand put voters off

Never believe Demjanjuk is a ‘victim’

Some claim decent human beings can behave in an evil way just to conform. It is a pernicious argument

Parties’ free slots on TV come at a price

All the nostalgia about old party political broadcasts is genuine enough but don’t confuse it for real affection

How to stop the Queen picking the next PM

You can blame it on the Canadians and the Lib Dems, but a constitutional crisis is much closer than you might think

Daniel Finkelstein: Why do people disbelieve in global warming?

Global warming? Nazis? The monetary control Bill? Don’t worry if you haven’t a clue – you’re still entitled to an opinion

Which speech? Who cares?

Pundits and politicians obsess about dividing lines. The public are serenely indifferent

Daniel Finkelstein on the Gordon Brown letter row

You created the job. You should do it

David Miliband is wrong to think it's better to be in loyal opposition than to be EU high representative

Daniel Finkelstein: Cameron, Lisbon and aversion therapy

Why nobody likes to think they’re losing it over Europe

Get it straight: Cameron is Eurosceptic

The Tory leader plans to stop the ‘European ratchet’, but he won’t let the Lisbon spat derail his first year

Thoughts for the week

When it comes to history, it’s the pirates of the Left who waive the rules

Posties should know that strikes are catching

The Royal Mail strike is bonkers and everyone will lose out. But we won’t stop it unless we break the union’s network

Plato’s dialogues are good for us. But celebrity gossip is even better

Fame and wealth are attainable for more people in modern Western societies. Am I supposed to think that is a bad thing?

The coup behind the clap for poverty

It took one man 20 years to put the poor in the mainstream of Conservative politics

Daniel Finkelstein: On the loneliness of Tuesdays

My lonely vigil at Labour’s conference was because of mindlessness — theirs and mine

Missing Issue that threatens the Tories

Why have MPs’ expenses dropped off the agenda? The public want to see if parties are changing

Labour mustn’t be on the front foot

If his party heeds Brown's empty conference rallying cry it will only make defeat even more inevitable

How The X Factor explains self-delusion

What’s the point of such apparently useless — and even embarrassing — behaviour? Here’s an evolutionary interpretation

Wake up. Your moment is nigh

Facing unpopular Tories and a weak Labour Party, can the Liberal Democrats seize the advantage?