The Government must deliver more homes, and they must be in the South

It is nonsense to suggest that ‘levelling up’ demands misdirecting building targets to places where housing is already affordable.

Iain Dale: Cummings is behaving like a woman or man scorned. But you can’t dismiss all that he says.

Plus: If there’s a reshuffle it’ll surely be in late July or early September. And: My interview with David Amess.

Jihyun Park: Growing up in North Korea, I could have never imagined standing in the UK local elections. Here’s what I learnt.

Since I arrived in 2018, I have discovered so much about British politics – and the value of a name.

Cummings Reborn – as the champion of Parliament. He has given MPs more power, so leaving the inquiry with less.

Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.

Garvan Walshe: Lukashenko’s air piracy. By way of western response, sanctions are only a start. Here’s what we need to do next.

Universities need heavier scrutiny. Owners must be identified. Media backed by regimes that restrict freedom should be denied broadcast licenses.

Matthew Fell: Government alone cannot level up the UK. Business stands ready to help.

The last of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.

WATCH: Scotland and the future of the Union

Our panel, including Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross, discuss the impact of the recent Holyrood election.

What none seem willing to say about anti-Muslim prejudice and the Conservative Party

Much of the commentary on the Singh Report is being written with scarcely a reference to events since 9/11 and 7/7.

Daniel Hannan: We cannot allow our solution to the problem of illiberalism to depart from liberal principles

As the culture war becomes more vicious, we lose sight of what ought to be the elemental precepts of a liberal society.

Radical: As the EHRC leaves Stonewall’s diversity scheme, how many other organisations will follow?

Government departments, local authorities, and some of the most successful UK companies are among those that have signed up.

Matt Leach: Levelling up isn’t simply about infrastructure – it’s about community connection too. Here’s how the Government can help.

The second of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.

Cummings’ revenge tragedy

He could have waited, kept his peace, and perhaps come back. Another man would have done. But he isn’t that man.

Profile: Penny Mordaunt. Ambitious, socially liberal, sacked, then rehabilitated, restive, military-flavoured – and on manoeuvres.

In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.

Ryan Bourne: GB News will offer viewers a new choice – within the rules. Which is precisely why the left fears it.

The new channel’s critics don’t understand the difference between impartiality, which is required, and bias, which is not.

Nick King: Levelling up. The challenge is less defining it than delivering it, for which Johnson will need the private sector.

The first of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.