Darren Grimes: Why I’m backing this new campaign to defund the BBC

It’s single mothers like mine that are hardest hit by non-payment of the licence fee. If you ask me, that’s too high a price to pCome Dancing on free-to-view telly.

Andy Street: Our blueprint setting out the economic ambitions of the West Midlands

This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.

Neil O’Brien: The New Puritans want to tear down our liberal settlement. Here’s what they think – and why they must be resisted.

Countries need a balance of self-criticism and self-confidence. People are often called on to act for a greater good. But if Britain is shameful, why bother?

Iain Dale: The Jenrick row. What grudge could the Daily Mail possibly have against the former owner of the Daily Express?

But if you sup with Desmond, use a very long spoon. Plus: Remainer mania remains. And: Masked, I prepare to take the train.

Henry Hill: Sturgeon sets out plan to ‘unlock’ Scotland… one day before England

Also: DUP demand clarity from Johnson over customs checks, and Abolish the Welsh Assembly get their first representative in it.

Stephen Booth: While UK-EU talks gather momentum, Britain should continue to diversify its trading relationships.

Deals with the US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand will prepare the country for future EU-related bumps in the road.

Luke Evans: What social media says about the Government and the virus. And what my constituents actually said when I asked them.

Independent retailers told me that the Government, though no means has been perfect, has supported them through the darkest of times.

Daniel Hannan: The police. Not institutionally racist, but institutionally woke.

Their leaders elevate race relations above what should be their core functions, such as enforcing the law impartially.

Ryan Bourne: Why Tyrie’s attempt to make the Competition Authority more like Which? magazine was wrong

He wanted the CMA to be both an aggressive consumer champion and decision-maker – “too much prosecution, judge, and jury” according to some.

Radical: The BBC, Pink News and how, in reporting on the Gender Recognition Act, the media has shown shocking inaccuracy

Over the last few weeks, publications have routinely made errors in how they cover the GRA and JK Rowling. Readers must beware.

Richard Holden: Here in Durham, Labour ponder tinkering with statues – while local people yearn for jobs, security and pay

We need to switch from specifying “what’s allowed to open” to “what in the interest of public health needs to continue to be restricted.”

David Gauke: Big Government is back. It didn’t work before. It may not now. Here’s why we should be wary of it.

Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.

Iain Dale: “Winston Churchill gave voice to the nation’s courage and Vera Lynn gave voice to its heart”

Plus: If only the Remainers had behaved like Rashford. And: the lesson I draw from Twitter – “Immer mit der Ruhe”

Henry Hill: Scottish schools face a full year of disruption, and the DUP clash with teaching unions

The battle to re-open state schools rages across the UK. Also: Mohammed Asghar, Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, passed away this week.

Garvan Walshe: How will Netanyahu – the world’s greatest political escapologist – get out of this latest trap?

Trump’s Middle East peace plan has left the Prime Minister of Israel in severe diplomatic difficulties. But there may be a way out.