Garvan Walshe: Four actions we can take to help Belarus achieve its freedom
From working with Lithuania to enable gas pipelines, to relaxing visas for Belarusians, there’s much we can do to put pressure on Lukashenko’s regime.
Robert Halfon: Johnson’s coming Party Conference needs to show voters that we’re on their side
Plus: by stealth, under the cover of Covid-19, Starmer is changing the Labour Party to one based on social democracy, rather than red-blooded socialism.
Darren Grimes: Not even Charles Moore can save the BBC
Why should we believe that any new Chairman can deliver change, when the new Director-General has seen his pledges fail in his first month in the job?
Andy Street: We must support our veterans through this national crisis
Vulnerable former armed forces members can fall through gaps in the net meant to catch them. We cannot allow this to happen.
Radical: Self-ID for transgendered people has been stopped for now. But the struggle for truth and sense continues.
Equivalent reform is being pursued in Scotland; in combination with its hate speech bill, this would be dangerously authoritarian.
Neil O’Brien: Johnson should instruct a team of Ministers to wage war on woke
The future was that we would be colour-blind. Instead, wokeism tells us we should see each other as members of different races.
Iain Dale: Cameron – blamed by Remainers, scorned by Leavers. But in many ways, he changed the country for good.
Plus: Publishing diaries – do you keep in all the salacious details, or take some out to avoid upsetting people? Sasha Swire takes route one.
Henry Hill: It is past time the Government worked out a British interpretation of the Belfast Agreement
Both the Prime Minister and his predecessor have failed to challenge the green-tinted vision of the treaty offered up by Dublin and its outriders.
Stephen Booth: Why the row about the Northern Ireland Protocol suggests that the EU’s position isn’t quite as strong as it likes to think
How plausible is it that the UK would zealously enforce EU rules in a scenario in which trade agreement talks have broken down acrimoniously?
Daniel Hannan: Voters tend to get some things wrong, but the big things right. So it is with this Brexit Bill.
In a shrewd and largely instinctive way, they have sussed that Britain faces an ill-disposed negotiating partner making unreasonable demands.
Ryan Bourne: A lesson from this pandemic. State action fails even when the case for it is strongest.
I was regaled with horror story after story on access to even existing testing. Confidence in the “moonshot” is non-existent.
James Frayne: Do voters care about breaking international law, and if so, how much?
An important point to consider is whether or not respect for the way all law works has declined.
Richard Holden: If Starmer stands – or kneels – for each passing fad, he won’t rebuild trust with working class voters
The volte-face that he is currently trying to manage in seeking to defend a Withdrawal Agreement that he opposed is farcical.
David Gauke: May should lead the Commons struggle against her successor’s plan to break international law if necessary
As her Lord Chancellor, I would have resigned if she had brought forward such proposals (which she wouldn’t have done anyway).
Iain Dale: Why have Buckland and Braverman signed up to breaking international law?
Plus: Deteriorating broadsheet standards, a divided United Kingdom. And: nineteen years on from 9/11.