Garvan Walshe: The virus shows the decline of Western democratic culture. Rebuilding it will take hard work.
Sensationalising data is all too common in politics. We have to end this trend if we want to keep people safe.
The crucial decisions on the virus are not scientific. They are political.
As the old saying doesn’t quite put it, scientists advise, but Ministers decide – on moving to mitigation or anything else.
Robert Halfon: The Budget we need today is for social as well as physical infrastructure
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
Rob Roberts: The BBC cannot be both a public service broadcaster and a commercial-style ratings chaser. It must choose.
It can’t be right for it to risk cutting millions of older and vulnerable citizens off from its services whilst ploughing vast sums into replicating the work of commercial stations.
The Budget we want will have to wait
The Coronavirus will punch a hole in Sunak’s sums sufficient to throw levelling-up, Boosterism, Brexit bonuses – what have you – off course.
Victoria Hewson: The law on gender and trans rights is confused and confusing – the Government must bring clarity
The culture wars over sex and gender are increasingly being played out in the courts, with insufficient regard for coherence or the intentions of legislation.
Patrick McLoughlin: Rail fares are in urgent need of reform and simplification
For the good of passengers, taxpayers and the railway, this pre-internet system needs a wholesale reset.
My row with Gordon Brown. And what it taught me about the state of the Union.
At one point he even started firing questions back at me from the stage, putting paid to the moderators’ hopes of continuing the Q&A.
Neil O’Brien: The balance of power between economic and social conservatives may be shifting to the latter
We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.
Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department
Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.
British politics begins self-isolation
It froze up during Brexit stasis, thawed when Boris Johnson won his majority – and is closing down again as the coronavirus advances.
Elliot Keck: Johnson’s approach to the EU negotiation is straight out of The Office
Scott’s gamble is that it is in Wallace’s interest to wrap things up quickly – due to fears for his position. The Prime Minister is making a strikingly similar gamble.
Grassroots members stand by Patel in our latest Cabinet League Table
The overall numbers are down slightly after the allegations against the Home Secretary and the Government’s defeat over Heathrow.
Conservatism is dying: the liberals have won
Ed West describes in his new book how the Left has established “a moral monopoly”. It describes the mentality of a Tory who will not be imprisoned in a system.
Our survey. Over half of Party members give a thumbs-up to fracking – so dissenting from Johnson’s manifesto.
They don’t believe that the Government’s moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety.