Mark Francois: Tempting though it may be to stage one, Johnson should avoid a Love Actually moment with Biden
European defence budgets only go so far, and ultimately we need the Anglo-American link.
Afghanistan. Getting out by August 31 would be bad. Getting out later could be even worse.
Biden’s decision has left us no good option, and it seems unlikely that he will change his mind.
Alan Duncan: The recently-rehashed Foreign Office is facing an identity crisis
Its development reputation has been tarnished, and nobody is able to define quite what the UK’s foreign policy actually is.
Andrew Griffith: Unpick the triple lock – because it’s unfair for pensioners to gain from the misfortunes of others
Our manifesto couldn’t reasonably be expected to predict the freak consequences of Covid in terms of rapid wage growth.
Townsend v Stonewall
“The single biggest issue…when I announced I was standing as Surrey’s Police Commissioner were concerns about gender self-identification.”
America 1) Bim Afolami: Yes, the United States is withdrawing from its role abroad. So we need to reinvigorate our alliances.
We need to rethink our foreign policy not in the world we would like, but in the world we actually live in.
America 2) Michael Fabricant: No, the United States isn’t withdrawing from its role abroad. We’ve been here before and it will be back.
The current social conflicts in the US are actually a strength, a sign of a society that is constantly striving to better itself.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 9) High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Michael Nazir-Ali: After the betrayal of democracy in Afghanistan, will other countries in the region ever trust the West again?
Sensing blood, the vultures are circling: ISIS is active already, and not only in the remoter parts of country.
Ex-servicemen enrich the Commons, but we should beware giving their views special status on matters of war
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
Early vaccination was expected to lead to earlier re-opening than our European neighbours. By and large, that didn’t happen.
The UK had one of the best vaccine programmes, but it kept its nightclubs closed for longer than France and Germany.
Sarah Ingham: How much should we take from, say, the NHS budget to fund a unilateral mission in Afghanistan – if anything?
Regime change usually involves chaos, bloodshed and a humanitarian crisis. Has the Stop the War movement become Continue the Military Intervention?
Mark Jenkinson: Electric cars have challenges, but these are not insurmountable. We should be optimistic about their potential.
Issues around infrastructure, affordability and sustainability can be resolved in time.
Tugendhat and Baron. One well known, the other less. But it’s Baron who speaks for more voters on intervention.
The harsh reality is that no British Government would seek to replicate the role of the Americans in Afghanistan without them.
Benedict Rogers: Hong Kong, Myanmar – and now Afghanistan. America and Britain have failed all three. Next, Taiwan?
It feels as if we are living in the mid-1930s, an era of Stanley Baldwins and Neville Chamberlains.