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.

Henry Hill: Dowden must resist the SNP’s Eurovision power-grab – and force the BBC to up its game

The UK competes as itself too rarely to allow the Corporation’s complacency to let Britain down. Time to bring some Olympic focus.

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.

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.

James Frayne: If we don’t have a union with Scotland, it won’t be the end of the world for the English

From Brexit, to the vaccine rollout, to trade, to Hong Kong, Johnson has plenty of good stories to tell – if not blown off course by Scotland.

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.

Richard Holden: Why Labour’s grip on seats like mine weakened. And how we can strengthen our own everywhere.

This is a story of institutions, work and habits changing out of recognition – and how we can improve our position and the country once we’re heard.

David Gauke: My most useful day in nine years as a Minister – and its lessons for the Government on planning reform

If we really want to build more houses where the demand is greatest, we need an offer that local MPs can sell to their constituents.

Iain Dale: The student said men are physically stronger than women. Now she’s been referred to the Student Disciplinary Board.

Plus: Batley & Spen is no Hartlepool. LibDems eye Chesham & Amersham. And: will the West Ham variant hit Europe?

Henry Hill: ‘Great British Railways’ must be far more than an English franchise reorganisation

Also: The new Ulster Unionist leader is right that Northern Ireland suffers for having no government MPs. What will he do about it?

Stephen Booth: Is the Government drawing nearer to suspending the Northern Ireland Protocol?

And the longer the impasse goes on, the stronger argument becomes that hypothetical risks to the Single Market are overriding political stability.

Robert Halfon: There is no moral equivalence between the Hamas terror group and the democratic state of Israel

Behind the former is the force that drives the current conflict: the not-so-hidden hand of Iran – and its exported violence.

Emily Carver: If our choices are lawful, can we really trust the state to judge which ones will harm us?

Much like a parent intent on disciplining their naughty child, this Government’s preferred policy tool seems to be prohibition.

Andy Street: Community ownership can help secure a future for our pubs

Across the West Midlands, voluntary groups are also leading the way to put new life into stations, cinemas, town halls, and other landmarks.