I see, via the Daily Quail, that both the Daily Mail and The Sun have picked up the Telegraph’s desperate story that Muslims are drawing up a ‘hit list’. As Tim at Bloggerheads shows, the guy is a troll, who has a habit of deliberately writing offensive things just to get a rise out of people.

Alan Duncan is now back in the UK, fresh from the slopes and no doubt with a very fetching ski-tan. As The Daily Telegraph revealed, the knives are now out for Ol' Panda Eyes. Rather than attend meetings across the country on Tuesday to promote Conservative policies, Mr Duncan was instead whooshing down the slopes in Davos, Switzerland on a trip with the all-party parliamentary ski-ing team.

Public money used to stop public having a greater say in policing - Telegraph.Don't ask whose money it is. Our public officials certainly don't think it's ours. Listening to "The World at One" as I drove along the M56 today,...

The assiduous Chris Hope, Whitehall editor of the Daily Telegraph, has finally got to the bottom of how much Gordon Brown's decision to sell off part of Britain's gold reserves actually cost the country - a staggering £4.7bn. That's more than twice previous estimates. At the prime minister's Downing Street press conference in May last year, I asked Brown whether he regret...

Says Hilary Benn. Yesterday's Telegraph agreed with him, and bemoaned the absence of enough British manufacturing (although there is more than City-connected Fleet Street and Westminster types tend to assume). Is the Telegraph moving back towards conservatism? Stranger things have happened.

Reshuffle speculation is now getting out of control and threatens to do damage to the Conservatives. Either David Cameron should conduct a reshuffle as soon as Parliament returns on Monday or he should announce that there won't be one. The demonisation of Alan Duncan over the past few days in various parts of the press (but principally the Daily Telegraph) has been unedifying to say the least...

Alan Duncan is receiving quite a bit of friendly fire at the moment. An unnamed Tory MP tells today's Telegraph: "Just imagine the shadow business secretary is away skiing when we are going across the country to talk to people...

There's a great article by Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph arguing the case for some radicalism in Conservative party economic policy. Remarking on the death of Alan Walters (economics adviser to Margaret Thatcher and guru of monetary policy) Heffer laments the lack of a modern-day equivalent within the Cameron team, and he puts a compelling case for appointing one. Cameron, he claims, su...

In an incredible (i.e. barely credible) item, The Telegraph reports that the Scottish Parliament are to debate the Israel/Gaza conflict - but MSPs have been told they can not take sides. Despite having no control over foreign affairs, the Scottish Parliament has decided to pre-empt Westminster by discussing the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. So, even though it is not within their ...

There is an increasingly forlorn feeling around the shadow business secretary Alan Duncan. The Telegraph has a senior Conservative saying MPs involved in the Tories' regional visits programme are the ones who will be included in a new shadow government. The piece claims Duncan ruled himself out by going skiing instead and incurred Cameron's anger, but that's just hot air. If Cameron...