Stephen Booth: Step by painful step, both sides creep close to agreement over Northern Ireland

There might not be time, but it at least now appears that a UK-EU deal on Brexit is conceivable.

David Gauke: Whatever briefings from Downing Street may claim, an election fought on a No Deal platform would be disastrous

Let me give seven examples of principles that most Conservatives would support. I struggle to reconcile them with those pursuing a No Deal Brexit at any cost.

Will Johnson get a Brexit deal done after all?

Plus: Could the Brexit Party get a free run from the Conservatives in 50 seats? Welcome, Chris Mason. And: my weekend.

Henry Hill: Davidson ready to lead next ‘No’ campaign as would-be successors battle over her legacy

Also: Democratic Unionists ‘under pressure’ over Brexit u-turn; and Gove backs Bowie’s criticism of SNP over no-deal preparations.

Garvan Walshe: Erdogan’s Kurdish invasion will be a disaster

Turkey appears to assume that their opponents will flee. But if they’ve nowhere to go, they’ll have no alternative but to fight.

Robert Halfon: Sex offenders are slipping through the net. They must be stopped.

There are significant loopholes in our safeguarding measures that are entirely preventable, but potentially disastrous.

Andy Street: Let business beat politics – and let’s build the nation’s first Gigafactory in the West Midlands

We can avoid the mistakes of the past by locating a new factory for electric car batteries in the regional home of vehicle manufacturing.

Howard Flight: The damage that EU membership has done to our constitution is clear to see

Leaving is just the start: the next government will need to embark on a serious programme of reform.

Neil O’Brien: Fifty shades of conservatism

It’s a bit like the roof of Parliament’s Westminster Hall: which is held up by a lot of huge, ancient beams all resting on each other.

Nick Hargrave: Why Special Advisers should be neither seen nor heard

The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.

Iain Dale: Were it not for the fringe at each year’s Conservative conference, what would be the point of coming?

Plus: How should you respond when someone comes up and tells you that they love what you do?

Henry Hill: Johnson’s compromise risks laying another time-bomb under the Union

Like May before him, the Prime Minister risks inflicting deep structural damaged on the United Kingdom in order to escape tactical difficulties.

Daniel Hannan: Why are MPs and commentators fainting like Victorian matrons over the use of the word “humbug”?

The constant mistake of the pro-Brussels Establishment has been to assume that voters – especially Leave voters – are thick.

Ryan Bourne: Greta Thunberg and Prince Harry are wrong. Our ingenuity is the earth’s ultimate resource.

The only sustainable route to reducing carbon emissions will come precisely from the sorts of innovation that drive the “fairytales” that she bemoans.

Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Are the “true Brexiteers” too Brexity to deliver Brexit?

And: The Defence Secretary denies we need to pick empires. Plus: More publicans needed in politics – and the menace of the anti-meat lobby.