Smash Hit

On the fence. The least painful position

Cameron will be relieved once Lisbon is over. He can then stick to the British tradition of quiet foot-dragging over Europe

It’s too darn hot for the planet’s good

Everyone’s turning on the central heating. Now just turn it back down

Why sacrifice free speech to swat a gnat?

In the face of a rag-tag party with a dishcloth of a manifesto, we flinched — yes, flinched — in our commitment to liberty

A catholic approach to weirdos is fine with me

I’m all in favour of people showing their true colours

Rigid Brown has cast us adrift

Guiding a country all the time is impossible. But if nobody’s steering the ship, you’re sunk

In the cathedral I saw a sign. God help us

The message I received from Saint Therese... and who it was about

Prepare for office. And for booby traps too

The Tory leadership has propelled the party towards government – but it will have a job to keep the backbenchers with it

Eurosceptics are still crazy after all these years

It’s nice to know some things haven’t changed at the Tory conference

Cameron hasn’t sealed it. Thank heaven

The Tories should be grateful voters remain sceptical. The lower their hopes, the less likely they are to be disappointed

For Gordon Brown this was the unkindest cut of all

Brighton Notebook

That’s my home. Get your dirty tax hands off it

Homeowners instinctively hate a mansion tax. They feel their hard-earned bricks and mortar should be beyond the State

Thanks, but we don’t all need a lifeguard

The best beaches and the best swims are always unsupervised

The torch has passed. Give Osborne the credit

After sniping from the City that he was a political pipsqueak, the Shadow Chancellor has been vindicated

St Therese of Lisieux: come out, atheists, and fight

The grand tour of the saint’s relics is preposterous nonsense