Robert Halfon: I’m not a lockdown sceptic. But I am a “school-down” sceptic – and fear the impact of these closures.

The Government needs to provide an educational route map out of Coronavirus for schools and colleges – so that they can prepare.

Clive Moffatt: Going green with the lights off. We need a more realistic approach to climate change.

The second piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.

How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

Profile: Ben Wallace, one of Johnson’s Long Marchers, and a traditional but also irreverent Defence Secretary

Here is a politician educated at Sandhurst and on active service with the Scots Guards in Northern Ireland, not by reading PPE at Oxford.

The Moggcast: Neil O’Brien is “to the Coronavirus as Bill Cash was to Brexit”

He’s doing a “fantastic job”; timetables for ending lockdown are “not particularly realistic”; claims that Johnson relishes it are “ridiculous”.

Benedict McAleenan: COP26’s challenge for Johnson. Will measures be agreed that will keep temperature rises limited to 1.5°C?

The first piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.

The cynical politics of emissions targets and COP26. How government is poised to declare success while delivering failure.

Our five year electoral cycle is driving MPs to compete for short-term green subsidies without questioning the medium-term consequences.

Neil O’Brien: Five lessons from the pandemic

It’s striking that the countries that did best during Covid are those, like Taiwan and South Korea, which live under threat of annihilation by their neighbours.

Liam Fox: Are we really going to close down the global economy every time a new virus emerges?

We have to ask whether high bed occupancy rates in the NHS are tilting the balance between efficiency and resilience in the wrong direction.

Time for a Coffey break

The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.

Richard Ekins: How to reform our Supreme Court

The Government’s plan may mean a change from the Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – widening the set of judges who sit.

Johnson should be deeply wary of opening Pandora’s Box with a constitutional commission

Advocates of every hoary old reform would immediately set to work arguing that the Union could be saved by their One Weird Trick.

Julian Brazier: A single allowance rate for Inheritance Tax – and five other proposals for making social care more resilient

Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.

The amazing story of Mohammad Sarwar shows how Sturgeon can be defeated

The former Glasgow MP is now, astonishingly, Governor of Punjab, while his son is getting ready to attempt the revival Scottish Labour.

Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.

Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.