Neil O’Brien: Bullying, hostage taking, censorship, bribery. How China is dealing with its critics abroad.
Economically and politically, Beijing takes advantage of asymmetric openness: we’re open to them, but they are not to us.
Tom Waterhouse: To help reduce obesity, don’t expand the sugar tax. Use social prescribing instead.
I qualified as a personal trainer to train people in my spare time. The greatest challenge is breaking down the barriers people face to getting fit and healthy.
School closures, Labour, teaching unions – and why Starmer himself should be in the dock
Does he back the National Education Union’s advice to its members not even to engage on a possible June 1 re-opening?
Michael Fabricant: The Commons simply can’t return to normal any time soon. So it shouldn’t try to.
The author takes issue with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andrew Gimson – and say that MP should work from home if they can like everyone else.
MPs must return to Westminster, and subject the Government to proper scrutiny, at the earliest opportunity
Rees-Mogg is right: we cannot tell children to go back to school if parliamentarians continue to play truant.
New York Times journalists, blinded by moral indignation, cannot understand how Trump got where he is today
But David Enrich’s new book does include a lot about how Deutsche Bank lent the President the money needed to look successful.
This really is the time to let the deficit grow big enough to look after itself
If, that is, interest rates carry on at rock bottom rates. But we have to take a chance on growing our way out of this crisis.
Iain Dale: When black women Labour MPs are wrong, white middle aged men should be free to call them out
Plus: Sturgeon’s failures as a leader and her successes as a communicator. And: the lobby has a reshuffle.
James Cullimore: To halt the perilous trend of diseases like the Covid-19, we will need to heal our relationship with nature
The UK has an opportunity to play a leading role in shaping a new global agreement which reinvigorates conservation efforts.
If you thought staying in lockdown was hard, wait until you see what trying to get out of it is like. But here’s how Johnson could do it.
A successful test, track and quarantine policy would open the door to local paths out of this national shutdown.
Stephen Booth: On the Northern Ireland Protocol, the UK’s negotiating hand is stronger than people think
The formal deadline for agreeing an extension to the transition period is close, but Britain is unlikely to ask for one.
Sam Robinson: How can the UK pay off its Coronavirus bill? A carbon tax and reformed wealth taxes would help.
The Government has to generate revenue quickly, but austerity and spending cuts are not viable options.
An undertow of doubt about the Government’s competence is washing through the Conservative Parliamentary Party
And contrary to Johnson’s figure of speech, we haven’t yet reached the mountain peak. The difficult part of the climb is only just beginning.
Bernard Jenkin: For their strategy to work, Ministers will need more than double the number of tracers that they plan to recruit
If only 6,000 people, with 45 contacts each, are infected every day, we will need a capacity of 276,000 tests just to keep up.
Luke Evans: We must protect the long-term mental health of frontline NHS staff
We have to make sure that there are not only helplines but that both they and general mental health support are highly visible.