Robert Halfon: We need to get a handle on home education – and the surge of kids who’ve vanished from the school roll

The Education Select Committee, which I Chair, has published a report on how we can strengthen this type of education.

Ryan Bourne: Will the Government’s new High Potential Individual visa actually attract top global talent?

Questions have been raised about whether the visa route will truly be as liberal as some have implied

Bim Afolami: The Olympic model of spotting and developing talent should be applied to academia

We need to focus on developing our brightest and most talented people, in a range of different fields, from a young age.

Sarah Ingham: Why is so much art in Britain’s public realm either ugly, witless or pointless?

Too often councillors are cheerleaders-in-chief for incongruous cultural blots on our landscapes.

Henry Hill: SNP faces police investigation over ‘missing’ independence campaign cash

Also: Ministers give opponents of Troubles amnesty six weeks to propose alternatives and square off to the devocrats over freeports.

Garvan Walshe: Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan may not be a strategic mistake, but it is a moral disaster.

Afghan security force members are being murdered. Girls’ schools are being shut down. Iran and Russia are weighing up a return to the quagmire.

Emily Carver: The Government’s plan to make exams easier will be devastating for this country’s education system

The Department of Education wants to address school disruption by “reducing pressure” on students.

Daniel Hannan: Is it worth decarbonising if the rest of the world won’t follow?

Leading by example is all well and good. Impoverishing yourself in order to make a point, not so much.

Richard Holden: We need mayors to do for other places what Houchen is doing for Teesside

Commentators in big cities missed the point of a Prime Ministerial speech aimed at smaller ones, towns, counties and the countryside.

David Gauke: There are signs that the Treasury is winning – and that more tax rises are coming.

The overseas aid and Universal Credit decisions suggest that, for the first time in a while, the cause of fiscal conservatism is gaining the upper hand.

Radical: Women are the casualties when judges capitulate to gender ideology

It seems they are more interested in gender identity than the concerns that have been raised in women’s prisons.

Henry Hill: Scrapping EVEL makes muscular unionism more important than ever

One can’t plead both ‘our inter-connected United Kingdom’ against English Votes and ‘the spirit of devolution’ against Ukima.

Stephen Booth: Five years of the International Trade Department. How it’s got on. And what happens next.

The Integrated Review outlined a clear and ambitious strategy, placing trade at the heart of UK foreign policy, including the Indo-Pacific tilt.

Robert Halfon: We need more groups like Us for Them, one of the few campaigners for pupils’ rights during lockdown

The last year has been a national disaster for our young people. Never again should we shut our schools.

Andy Street: It’s time to energise England’s regions to tackle the climate emergency

Local leaders must be given the power to take greater responsibility in achieving net zero.