Don’t blame the police for failures to hold them accountable. To make streets safer, have more local control.
That there may be as many as three investigations into Saturday’s events on Clapham Common tells us much we need to know.
Johnson – “Our new, full-spectrum approach to cyber will transform our ability to protect our people”
The Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy is upon us. But will the capabilities follow the challenges, or vice-versa?
Davina McCall, groupthink and the Twitterfication of society
The TV presenter showed huge bravery this week by standing up to groupthink. The Government can learn a lot from her.
As the SNP stonewalls Holyrood, Parliament should help hold Scottish civil servants to account
Liam Fox has confirmed this week that they are part of the Home Civil Service, and thus answerable to the House of Commons and its Ministers.
Looking back at the Budget a week on, its plan for growth is not convincing
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
Test and Trace has been messy and expensive. But let’s not write it off yet.
Furthermore, critics of the programme are alarmed by the rising costs. But will they ever acknowledge that ‘lockdown sceptics’ warned about these?
If the EU is as committed to the Belfast Agreement as it claims to be, here’s what it will do, sooner or later
If strict East-West checks and North-South checks are problematic, the only solution left standing is to minimise the former by rewriting the Protocol.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson wishes to remain in office for another ten or 20 years, so goes on the defensive
Labour has not yet found a way to beat the Prime Minister, but it does sometimes force him to play safe.
Johnson believes in gender equality (but is putting more men than women in the House of Lords)
In the wake of International Women’s Day, the third article in a five-piece series on ConservativeHome this week.
What matters to me, as a vegetarian, is less detail than vision – one of a long journey towards a better future.
The Government’s new measures for foie gras and pig farmers are a great step for animal rights.
The Duchess’ race claims. Starmer goes to court with a brief he hasn’t read.
And done so without increasing the likelihood of instruction for what will be the most important case of his life – the next general election.
School reform post-Covid. Beware of throwing out Gove’s baby with the bathwater.
The most disadvantaged pupils would lose out most were the coming rethink to abandon his legacy.
ConHome’s survey. Johnson’s rating for handling Covid reaches its highest since last spring.
And the Chancellor’s score survives the Budget relatively intact: his score is down, but there is no sudden collapse.
Our survey. A majority of respondents back Sunak’s Budget. Under one in ten say it was bad.
Fifty eight per cent think was good or very good; 34 per cent a mix of good and bad.
Our post-Budget Cabinet League Table. Sunak is still second – though his score is his lowest as Chancellor since Covid.
Mind you, he retains a strongly positive rating. Truss remains top – and Lord Frost comes straight in at fourth.