Ashley Fox: How the Walloonatics almost took over the asylum
Unintentionally, the socialists of this Belgian region have done us a favour by making the free trade championing UK look an increasingly attractive partner.
Iain Dale: John Howard, Australia’s great centre-right election winner, backs Leave
Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.
Lord Ashcroft: My US focus groups find Ohio in a dilemma. “One you don’t trust and one seems like an idiot.”
Plus, I interview Howard Dean, Hector Gomez and Steve Schmidt.
Graeme Archer: Come fly with me
Call that white flight if you like. Call it “white avoidance” if you must. I prefer to call it civilised, bourgeois, suburban safety.
Brexit’s new Irish question. Or British question, if you prefer.
The problems that change throwns up for the two countries are formidable but not insoluble.
Garvan Walshe: Erdogan’s crackdown is turning Turkey into a second Russia
Like Putin, he rules as unconstitutional monarch. Unlike Putin, his state is a member of NATO.
Peter Lilley: Ten years on, the Stern Review’s failures still need to be exposed
It was not an exercise in evidence-based policy-making but the most egregious example of policy-based evidence making.
Louis Smith’s mockery of Islam was neither clever nor funny. But his suspension for it is outrageous.
The state is indirectly attacking an individual who has received death threats rather than take action against those threatening him.
Alex Morton: May should call an general election next spring. Britain’s economic position demands it.
She needs the larger majority that a poll would deliver if she is to achieve her programme at a time of pre-Brexit turbulence.
Henry Hill: Davidson named Scottish Politician of the Year
Also: Davies defends Welsh devo-sceptics; Tory peer spearheads bid for gay marriage in Ulster; Davidson attacks SNP’s policy vacuum; and Foster comes out swinging for Brexit.
Heidi Allen: It’s time to take the shackles off Universal Credit
Who wrote the chapter in the political rule book where it says you can’t care for folk and be a Tory?
Mark Morrin and Phillip Blond: How to help white working class children in deprived areas to prosper
Grammar schools are part of a mix that could boost opportunity in places such as Knowsley – the second most deprived authority in England
Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: Why the Wallonians won’t be able to sink a UK/EU trade agreement
The Canadian dispute came about due to a very specific set of circumstances. We will be more fortunate.
Nicky Morgan: International students make us all richer – cutting their numbers would be a serious error
We should encourage the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, world leaders and entrepreneurs to choose our fantastic universities.
“Consider May’s Criminal Justice opt-ins”. Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of the Government’s Brexit negotiation plan.
And also how it will achieve its industrial strategy. Or try to.