Will the Government meet its commitment to end rough sleeping during this Parliament?
Housing First is essential but not sufficient – if there are as many non-UK nationals sleeping on the streets post-Covid as before.
The red white and blue archipelago: how localism can sustain the Union.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
Parliament should vote monthly from March on ending the lockdown
The most important question today isn’t whether the Government’s plan is right or wrong, but how decisions should be made about it.
Thirteen Conservative MPs pressed for a faster easing of restrictions during Johnson’s statement yesterday – and 35 did not
Yesterday’s backbench reaction to his Commons statement suggests that most Tory MPs will back his proposals.
The Mordaunt affair. If there’s a ban on Ministerial engagement with the MCB, it must be enforced.
Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.
Is Johnson under-promising on opening-up in order to over-deliver?
What a bracing springboard it would be to bounce into the local elections with normality returning faster than expected.
Why was there no reference to Islamist extremism in Johnson’s terror speech?
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
Johnson’s Downing Street. Like an unstable Middle Eastern autocracy – with jihadis, family militias, and outside actors exchanging fire.
The ghost of Cummings haunts Number Ten in the wake of Lewis’ resignation. Who’s in charge – and what’s the plan to see off the SNP?
Frost’s appointment chills the temperature for the EU
The Prime Minister has gone in a week from having a famine of political advice to a feast.
The relaxation of lockdown. Coming soon. Usual terms and conditions apply.
Johnson will be given an assessment of the vaccines’ effectiveness: over 15 million people have received their first dose, and some 500,000 their second.
Downing Street’s reshuffle sees Symonds’ grip tighten
We hope that Finn, Newman and the rest of the new appointees provide a fresh sense of direction and purpose.
Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”
But as ever, trying to make out a consensus position is like trying to pick out a tune when a drunk pianist is playing a broken piano.
“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.
Bordering on impossible
There is no good option for Ministers – but it must be better to stop infected people entering the country rather than quarantining them afterwards.
Who’s in charge of the Government’s clattering China train? It’s heading for a crash.
Behind today’s genocide row about the Uighurs stand the Hong Kongers, Biden – and our own trade and security irresolution.