Our Next Tory Leader survey. Truss leads Sunak by 20 votes.
Both take roughly a fifth of the vote in our latest poll, and no other candidate wins even a tenth.
For non-believers seeking Christmas ritual, Screwtape offers sound advice
There is little, the daemon argues, more likely to impede the development of faith than our annual quest for the perfect service.
Patel should follow the Crime Bill with a proper overhaul of the Metropolitan Police
Break off its national functions and focus it exclusively on giving London the normal policing it deserves.
Garvan Walshe: Four ways in which democracies can fight back against China’s state gangsterism
The naive globalisation of the 1990s has become a liability. Britain and its allies need to beef up their defences
Fiona Bruce: Let’s make freedom of belief for life – not just for Christmas
One of my seasonal wishes is for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) to include people from such religious minority groups.
Ten parallel universes in which Johnson didn’t become Prime Minister in the summer of 2019
The main alternatives turn out to be No Deal, a second referendum, a Corbyn premiership, and Theresa May. Were any of these were better?
Profile: Steve Baker, Christian Conservative, ERG organiser, small stater – and thorn in Johnson’s side
Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.
Daniel Hannan: Don’t write off Johnson
Who is enjoying his discomfort? Labour, the LibDems, Macron, Rejoiners, woke academics – everyone, in short, who wants to see Brexit Britain fail.
Andrew Haldenby: If the Government truly wants to level up Britain, it must improve national health outcomes
Poor health takes older people out of the workforce, reducing local incomes and buying power.
The Miller judgment – another blow against hate crime legislation
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a man whose social media activity saw him in trouble with the law.
Georgia L Gilholy: Porn is damaging our children, conniving with abusers and corrupting adults. Why won’t Ministers act?
Projecting sexual imagery as a form of entertainment can’t continue if we intend to remain a civilised society.
Tobias Ellwood: We need a bigger navy
In particular, the escort fleet needs to double in size by acquiring more low-end capability to carry out presence operations and other low-end tasks.
Will Sue Gray’s report topple the Prime Minister?
A Platonic Guardian must reach a view on the conduct of a Homeric warrior – one whose passions are, in the view of her fellow guardians, trashing the state.
Johnson hands Truss the poisoned fruit of the Northern Ireland Protocol
The province’s immediate future risks becoming enmeshed in her leadership ambitions – and Conservative reactions to them.
David Gauke: We need real vaccine passports now. The unvaccinated must pay a price for their anti-social behaviour.
Some say this that they are inherently discriminatory. Too right they are – but ‘discriminatory’ does not mean the same as ‘unfair’.