Sarah Ingham: The NHS failed the nation during the pandemic. Awarding it the George Cross was a mistake.
Furthermore, by allowing the Queen to do this, the Government has dragged the monarch into the political murk.
John Bird: I need your help to safeguard the interests of future generations
Get MPs to look at the detail of my Bill; quibble, scratch their heads, and maybe improve – but don’t kick it into the long grass.
With so much to get done, Johnson shouldn’t sideline the Downing Street legislation team
Policy drift following the collapse of the Union Unit shows the danger of Downing Street losing its grip on a process.
Profile: Priti Patel, who promises to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats
It is harder for liberal critics to impute racism, or undue severity, to a Home Secretary who herself belongs to an ethnic minority.
Garvan Walshe: Orbán, Le Pen, Morawiecki. Europe’s new national populist alliance is a sign of weakness, not strength.
Weakening at home and friendless abroad, it finds itself on the back foot – and exposed to its nations’ reliance on EU funds.
Benedict McAleenan: No, Greta, we don’t need Absolute Zero. We need Net Zero – with its negative emissions.
A recent report launching a new coalition explains why we need new technologies that will deliver these at scale.
Does the Climate Change Committee have too much power?
The second piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
Emily Carver: Young people overwhelmingly think socialism is a good idea. Access to capital is the only way to change that.
Their idealism over this ideology is fairly superficial. Even so, Conservatives must do more to reverse the trend.
Daniel Hannan: The City was always going to survive post-Brexit. But now we must diverge from EU rules, and allow it to prosper.
Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.
John Penrose: Is the traditional Tory belief in free enterprise leaving the station?
Ultimately, we either believe in free enterprise, and put customers and passengers ahead of fat-cat bosses and bureaucrats, or we don’t.
Covid and flu. The NHS was made for the people, not the people for the NHS.
The Government shouldn’t let the lockdowns of the last year become a precedent for the future each time the system comes under strain.
Richard Holden: Manufacturing (for Nissan) and football (fingers crossed) are coming home
Now the Coronavirus restrictions are lifting, it is time to focus on delivering what people voted for us to do, and double down on levelling up
Sam Hall: How to help poorer people meet the costs of net zero
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
After three by-elections and before tomorrow’s Covid announcement, here are five big challenges for Johnson
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.
Lord Ashcroft: Let’s rejoice at the news that the NHS has been awarded the George Cross
I called publicly for the collective award of the GC to the NHS fully 15 months ago – within a month of the nation going into its first lockdown.