Columnists

Ryan Bourne: A message for Johnson and Sunak on tax rises. Not now. And not these.

Modest consolidation over decades is one thing; large increases over a Parliament would be quite another.

Daniel Hannan: Does the army really still need tanks? Or the navy aircraft carriers? Or the rest of us, the Trident system?

Let’s have a no-holds-barred strategic review which asks how we can best defend our interests given the vertiginous acceleration of military technology.

James Frayne: Big tax rises would make Tory campaigning impossible – in Red Wall seats as well as traditionally blue ones

The public would catch up when growth slowed and redundancies rose. It would become clear that raising taxes on employers doesn’t help anyone.

Radical: Five questions for Richards and Kearns about trans. Do they accept the difference between sex and gender?

The serious consequences and abuse that too many – from JK Rowling on – have faced for discussing these issues are worrying and wrong.

Howard Flight: From rising demand for out of town housing, to increases in savings, the Covid trends to look out for.

I expect the UK to emerge from this economic and health shakeup with permanent major changes of behaviour.

Richard Holden: The Government must hold firm and stay on course as the Commons returns this week

We’re crafting together a response to a question for 2024: “who do you want to be governing the country for the next four or five years?”

David Gauke: We’re urged to return to the office – but Ministers must face the fact that the world of work is changing.

Plus: On Last Night of the Proms, I get in touch with my inner Farage. And: On Brexit, it’s crunch time as the end of transition approaches.

Iain Dale: Davey is the new LibDem leader. But only 57 per cent of his party’s members could be bothered to vote.

Plus: Any Questions, Cross Question, why Williamson and Gibb should go – and why Johnson’s masks policy isn’t a U-turn.

Henry Hill: SNP abandon ‘economic case for independence’ as GERS reveals that they don’t have one

But with the Scottish Government’s ratings apparently impervious to its record, the real question is whether these damning figures will make any difference.

Garvan Walshe: Tensions are rising between two NATO members – Greece and Turkey. Britain is well placed to broker a solution.

No longer an EU member, the UK is now in a position to act as an honest broker between the two countries and the other interested regional powers.

Darren Grimes: Out of office but in power. How the Left keeps losing elections, yet gets its way nonetheless.

Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.

Neil O’Brien: The next algorithm disaster – coming to a Conservative constituency near you. This time, it’s housing growth.

Most Tory MPs will be seeing large increases in the housing targets for their seats, while many Labour MPs see their local targets reduced.