Ex-servicemen enrich the Commons, but we should beware giving their views special status on matters of war

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”

Henry Hill: Westminster can thwart the SNP’s attempt to entrench their emergency Covid powers

It’s absurd to demand the right to force Scotland into lockdown when you need the British Treasury to pay for it.

Britain and America cannot shrink from the reality of their crushing failure in Afghanistan

If we couldn’t build a self-sustaining new society in two decades, it may be we could never have done it.

Henry Hill: After years of kowtowing, it’s hard to believe the SNP/Green deal might be in trouble

Also: Donaldson to lead DUP from Westminster after no MLA will make room for him in Stormont.

Dragging down private schools would be no way to close the attainment gap

An external comparator is a useful way of measuring the relative impact of various waves of public sector education reform.

As school pupils rack up devalued As, Williamson gets an F on grade inflation

The Department for Education has had a year to work out how to prevent a repeat of last year. It has rolled over.

Sorry, Prime Minister – Thatcher was not even responsible for shuttering most of Scotland’s coal mines

Johnson’s joke was not only ill-judged, but squandered an opportunity to tackle a pernicious bit of left-wing myth-making.

Henry Hill: The UK Internal Market Act empowers Johnson to take the fight to Sturgeon on drugs policy

Whilst the First Minister flirts with illegal ‘shooting galleries’, the Government can step in to support the rehab beds Scotland really needs.

Should the Prime Minister put his COP26 spokesperson in the House of Lords?

Allegra Stratton’s interventions seem more like those of a minister than a mere mouthpiece of Boris Johnson.

From self-isolation to score annihilation – Johnson drops 36 points in our Cabinet League Table.

Yet the Chancellor comfortably holds on to his silver-medal spot, despite sharing in the u-turn.

‘Location, location, location’ vs ‘a property-owning democracy’. Are we seeing a shift in Tory housing priorities?

“We need more homes, in the right places, at the right time, and I don’t really care who builds them or who owns them”, says Ben Everitt.

Henry Hill: Sunak must always remember that the Treasury is one of the few truly British departments

As Chancellor, he has almost unique scope to make the presence of the UK felt in people’s lives throughout the country. That carries risks.

If the Government wants to hit Net Zero, it will have to foot the bill

Simply letting the target impose steep costs on ordinary households might please the Treasury, but would be politically toxic.

The people, the product, the audience – where has GB News gone wrong?

The latest entrant in the British media landscape has got off to a very rocky start. Can the UK’s news-light news channel find its feet?

Henry Hill: SNP faces police investigation over ‘missing’ independence campaign cash

Also: Ministers give opponents of Troubles amnesty six weeks to propose alternatives and square off to the devocrats over freeports.