Inside Zimbabwe

Many thanks to Maurice Gerard, who will be blogging for Coffee House from inside Zimbabwe over the next week.  Here's his first post - Pete Hoskin

Driving to Harare down acacia-lined highways from Zimbabwe's border post at Victoria Falls and the casual visitor could almost mistake the country for being normal - albeit with occasional touts peddling black market luxuries like Coke and diesel fuel in rural lay-sides.

In the run-up to Friday's poll Zimbabwe has become a hybrid country, oscillating between queasy tranquility and sporadic outbreaks of extreme...

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Davis responds - Part II

Here are David Davis's to the last six questions put forward by CoffeeHousers.  For Part I click here.

6) Harry:

“How do you square your party's opposition to 42 days detention, and their support for the EU arrest warrant? Are the two not contradictory? Would a Conservative Government repeal/opt-out of the EU arrest warrant?”

In fact, four years ago, I am quoted by the Sun as saying that the EU arrest warrant scheme creates: ‘a ludicrous concept’, whereby ‘people can be extradited without trial for an act that may not...

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CoffeeHousers' Wall

This week's CoffeeHousers' Wall is here.

Head over there to have your say on the week's events and to let us know what you'd like to see on Coffee House.

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Welfare and education: the two initial priorities of a Cameron government

We've just uploaded the latest magazine content, and I'd recommend you check out Fraser's article on the initial priorities of a Cameron government.  What will they be?  As Fraser puts it:

"My conversations with the key players in the preparation strategy suggest unambiguously that schools reform and an overhaul of the welfare system will be the priorities — the hope being that both undertakings will have yielded palpable interim results which will help Mr Cameron secure a second term."

In other words, the Tories will push what are currently...

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The Great Wafer Seal mystery

Stephen points out that there may be one last obstacle to ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

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