6.30pm ToryDiary: Mayor claims victory as robberies fall on London buses
6.15pm Simon Chapman on CentreRight disassociates himself from the special interests arguing "If the government can find money to bail out banks, what about ..."
5.15pm CentreRight:
- Douglas Carswell MP: In defence of Peter Hitchens' analysis
- Responding to the financial crisis by Matt Sinclair
4pm CentreRight:
- Mark Field sees the first signs of a seismic shift of power eastwards from the US and Europe
- Andrew Lilico defends his decision to propose an alternative to the bailout and comments on the bailout and the interest rate cut
3.30pm Paul Goodman MP writes his first entry for CentreRight: Trots against extremism!
Parliament: Alan Duncan on what the government has done to make the current crisis worse
2.30pm Seats and Candidates: Kevin Hollinrake resigns as candidate for Dewsbury
Jim McConalogue on CentreRight: Brown's plan means British taxpayers bailing out banks across the EU
1.30pm CentreRight: Peter Cuthbertson responds to Peter Hitchens
12.15pm Local Government: How many of Britain's councils have money in collapsing Icelandic banks?
11.30am WATCH: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling on the bank bailout
11am CentreRight: Peter Hitchens replies to Tim Montgomerie
10am ToryDiary: Is this the best use of £50bn?
On CentreRight, Greg Hands MP previews today's return of PMQs
Kara Watt on Platform: The Sarah Palin factor
Cllr Paul Scully on Local government: Why blogging is a useful thing for councillors to do
Seats and candidates: Cllr Alan Cullens adopted for Chorley
WATCH: John McCain refers to Barack Obama as "that one" in second debate
Telegraph leader: Faith in the government is shattered
"The former Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke observed yesterday that the Government is simply incapable of responding to the speed of events. He is right." - Telegraph leader
"The Bank of England must cut interest rates this week by a full percentage point" - Times leader
Michael White: Tories suffering from bout of cross-party unity
"MPs and peers returned to Westminster this week to confirm what Labour MPs hoped and Conservative colleagues feared on the party conference circuit last month: that the economic crisis has changed politics once again. As Ruth Kelly put it in an exit interview: "Gordon has regained the permission of the electorate to be heard again." Tory MPs agree." - Michael White in The Guardian
Boris has a new "sense of purpose" - Simon Carr, Independent, reviews the Mayor's appearance before the Commons' Culture Select Committee
Nick Herbert to address Prison Governors Association
“Governors will become responsible for a prisoner’s journey throughout the penal system, from when they arrive in prison until they are reintegrated into the community. Under our sentencing reforms, governors will decide on a prisoner’s suitability for release, subject to appropriate judicial involvement. They will have the freedom to innovate and the power to decide the full range of services the prisoner needs – from incarceration, through education and training to treatment and resettlement." - Advance remarks from the Shadow Justice Secretary, quoted in the Daily Express | Telegraph
Social policy issues were big on Tory conference fringe
"Last week, the party conference's social policy fringes were big on values: they were peppered with earnest and unlikely references to the "limits" of capitalism, to the socially-ruinous behaviour of aggressive, impersonal corporations, such as those in the food industry and the Big Supermarkets. Concepts such as neighbourliness, civic engagement, work-life balance, co-production and social enterprise were bandied about with reverence and enthusiasm." - Guardian
Schoolchildren to be taught about dangers of extremism - Times
The Electoral Commission is a watchdog that neither barks nor bites - David Hencke in The Guardian
Cross-party group of MPs wants ban on smacking children in England and Wales - BBC
And finally...
Jonathan Isaby has a photo of champagne being delivered to 11 Downing Street.
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