Jack Butler

Student, English and Creative Writing

The silver lining in David Cameron's current flurry of clouds is that no ministers have yet decided that their career prospects would be better served by resigning from his government.

James Arbuthnot

Chairman of the Defence Select Committee of the House of Commons in the UK since 2005

In our report published today, we concluded that, at the end of UK operations in Afghanistan in 2014, the best the UK will be able to do is to withdraw in good order and engage with external partners to improve Afghanistan's future prospects.

Peter Luff

Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire

I hope I may be excused feeling a little smug today - the chickens are coming home to roost in precisely the way I hoped they would. Two successive reports from the government's financial watchdog, the NAO, have effectively endorsed the very difficult decisions we took while I was at MoD.

Philippa Tuckman

Works at Bolt Burdon Kemp, acts on behalf of military servicemen and women who have been injured

With yet more allegations of bullying and abuse in the armed forces, the time has come for the government to act on its promise to ensure that serving personnel are treated fairly and get access to the support they need when they leave active service.

Stefan Stern

Business Commentator

Hats off to Philip Hammond. He has done that unfashionable thing and admitted he has changed his mind. And happily, this being August, he has not been set upon by a seething mob shouting "U-turn, u-turn!"

Richard Denny

Chairman, Richard Denny Global Ltd.

Individuals that have provided years of loyal military service will have an extremely hard time accepting these upcoming redundancies and the slashing of historical traditions.

Nadia Khomami

Post-graduate Journalism student at City University

With an increasing number of people calling for change, it is an irrefutable fact that Mr Hunt's support for unpaid internships only diminishes attempts at reducing the disparity between elitism and equality. When will these people be called out for the exploitation they so openly support?

Tom Stevenson

Financial Times, PW News Reporter

Tyranny, tyranny, tyranny. It seems to echo from every direction like old church bells. Newspapers headline it, broadcasters auto-cue it, and party-goers celebrate the end of it - and they are right to. In his statement on Muammar al-Gaddafi's killing, Barack Obama said "the dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted". Now there's a sound-bite.

Ellen Booth

Senior campaigns officer, Brake

Raising the motorway speed limit to 80mph won't help the economy, but it will lead to more violent deaths and life-changing serious injuries, says Ellen Booth, senior campaigns officer at Brake, the road safety charity.

Philip Gomm

Head of External Communications at the RAC Foundation

So 80 is soon to be the new 70 – or at least that is what Philip Hammond has in mind. Given that the existing speed limit on motorways was introduced in 1965 a review makes sense. The world moves on and circumstances alter.

Jim Cowan

Strategy Consultant

The recent furore surrounding the awarding of the Thameslink contract to Siemens ahead of Bombardier and its resultant negative impact on the East Mid...