After the beheading of Samuel Paty, there are huge questions for the president as to how he can prevent such an atrocious crime again.
Plus: Let’s cut VAT on energy bill as soon as we leave transition – deal or no deal. And: first Ardern, then Biden?
As the short-term economy comes under immense strain, we should support the UK’s biggest single long-term investment.
The insidious idea that one’s sex is a solely matter of personal demand is seeping into policy and practice, almost unnoticed.
The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy gives us the chance to act coherently and effectively.
Plus: Macron has closed Paris at night. Merkel is pondering tougher restrictions. So don’t blame Johnson as though our situation were unique.
Also: the SNP paradox. Sturgeon gets sucked deeper into the Salmond scandal as independence soars in the polls.
All eyes will be on Emmanuel Macron this week, since France has been most prepared to play hardball.
It seems highly unlikely that the action against Grimes will result in a prosecution, let alone a conviction. But that doesn’t make it OK.
We should judge the desirability of a pro-wind energy policy by the social value added, not the numbers employed in the sector.
I will be returning regularly to this theme: the need to create a mainstream English and Welsh majority from shore to shore.
We have to level with people, give them support and offer them something to look forward to.
If it it takes hold, people will not want to go to pubs, cinemas, shops or offices, so economic normality will be impossible anyway.
Plus: virtual conferences are the way of the future. America’s vice-presidential debate worked. And: Fox deserved better from his WTO campaign.
She has made a point of being ahead of Westminster when it comes to imposing new restrictions. But this only works if the measures are popular.