Monday 29th August 2005

12.30pm update: Christopher Hitchens: A War To Be Proud Of - Commentators Blog

Blogs

Leadership Blog: More Labour votes for Ken

Leadership Blog: Sir Malcolm's 'real choice' is a false choice

Conservative News & Commentary

Labour MPs say they fear Ken Clarke most - Telegraph

Ruth Wishart: Ken Clarke wins my vote as optimist of the year - The Herald

"Ideas are the decisive force in all politics, whether they are bad ideas or good ones. The New Deal idea made Franklin Roosevelt. The half-baked racial Darwinism of Hitler took him to power, though it was intellectually contemptible.  There are even more ideas in the present Conservative leadership contest than may appear, but they desperately need better definition..."

...William Rees-Mogg: Ideas are the decisive force in politics - Times

Danny Kruger: Who would Maurice Cowling want as Tory leader? - Telegraph

Other Commentary

Melanie Phillips: Labour's stupid drinking policy - Daily Mail

George Trefgarne: The flat tax is marching across Europe - Telegraph

National Review leader: Iraq has been given a chance of a better future... "eventually, it will be up to them to make of it — their country, their politics, their constitution — what they will"

Other News

POLL: 58% want more abortion restrictions but 87% support assisted suicide - Telegraph

John Sentamu, new archbishop, says Church of England is infected with institutional racism - Telegraph

Telegraph responds: "A useful litmus test can be applied to distinguish vibrant, fast-growing denominations from struggling or moribund ones. Those that are obsessed with accusing themselves of racism tend to be in a worse state of health than those that - while vigorously opposing racial prejudice, as the Gospel demands - have resisted the breast-beating and grievance-mongering of secular multiculturalists."

American think tank organises National Conservative Coming Out Day - Townhall.com

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