The shake-up that the Government needs to rescue education for a generation of children

Johnson has fewer than three months in which to move public opinion – the key to getting schools moving again.

Profile: Black people in Britain, and whether this is an irretrievably racist or a wonderful country

It seems to me there is truth on both sides of this argument. The nuances to which Lammy refers get lost once combat is joined.

Narinder Singh: Race-shaming. The baiting by the Left of Mirza, Javid and Patel – simply for daring to be Conservatives.

Some seem to believes that they have a right to own the support of ethnic minority voters. Which they don’t.

Iain Dale: “Winston Churchill gave voice to the nation’s courage and Vera Lynn gave voice to its heart”

Plus: If only the Remainers had behaved like Rashford. And: the lesson I draw from Twitter – “Immer mit der Ruhe”

Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe

The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.

David Green: Johnson’s racial inequality inquiry must be free from political prejudice. Here are my tips for getting it right.

There are clear challenges to the idea that all whites are privileged. The Government’s report must stick to the facts.

Garvan Walshe: How will Netanyahu – the world’s greatest political escapologist – get out of this latest trap?

Trump’s Middle East peace plan has left the Prime Minister of Israel in severe diplomatic difficulties. But there may be a way out.

Sooner or later, Conservative MPs will have to remaster the vanishing art of Just Saying No

An election that saw them returned to say yes to Brexit and boosterism leaves Johnson vulnerable to events and reality.

Robert Halfon: The Government was wise to give way to Rashford. Now let him head up the Social Mobility Commission.

Plus: vision from the top for left-behind pupils, a National Education Broadcasting Service, and Alan Turing summer schools.

Christian Guy: Slavery. Not a remote horror from the past, but a living one in the present. It must be stamped out.

We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.

Darren Grimes: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

Luke Evans: The Coronavirus, my Bosworth constituency, reporting, risk – and the persistence of uncertainty

What I learned after a local Labour activist wrote to me on the basis of a newspaper report about the virus locally.

June 18. Decision time for undergraduates – and the fate of universities

This crisis, though we wish it could have been avoided – is a big wake-up call to these institutions that business cannot continue as normal.

The Moggcast: “Clearly one of the things the police are meant to do is to protect property”

Our interviewee on “very clear-sighted Home Secretary” and why he was right to end virtual Parliament. Plus: What does he think about illegal raves?

Raghib Ali: The harms of lockdown are exceeding the gains – especially when it comes to school closures

Neither the Covid-19 recovery plan nor SAGE’s minutes indicate that a formal “health cost-benefit analysis” has been done. We need one.