John Redwood: Covid-19 – and the hard questions that must be asked about forecasts, numbers, data and treatments

We know is that a lockdown is very damaging. The first one took around a quarter off our national income and output. We cannot afford to do that again.

What matters most for deciding on lockdown is hospitalisations – not deaths

To both treat every Covid patient who needs it and maintain regular services through the ‘winter crisis’, the NHS needs a more muscular intervention.

The Moggcast: “Things are done much more publicly.” The Leader of the House on 1922 Committee chairmen, Tory leaders – and dissent.

Our interviewee on the lockdown, the NHS, free school meals – and Government assessments of the effects of policy on lives and livelihoods.

Frank Young: Educational Long Covid. Why the collapse of schooling over lockdown will haunt the poor for years to come.

The second in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.

Like the virus itself, and like other restrictions, this shutdown will come down hardest on the deep poor

Duncan Smith names “five giants”: family breakdown, worklessness, serious personal debt, addiction and educational underachievement.

Andy Cook: To help reduce mass unemployment, back up Universal Credit with Universal Support

The first in a mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on Covid-19 – and helping those in deep poverty.

Neil O’Brien: The virus and the lockdown. Let’s keep calm and carry on – there’s reason to believe that a vaccine is coming soon.

We need to start listening to the right people – not hopeless people who get it wrong time and again, but face zero accountability.

David Davis: We are on course to be trapped in never-ending shutdowns with no exit route. Here is an alternative strategy.

We need to separate the Nightingales from other hospitals, build more of them – and use them as a means of isolating the infected.

The Government must publish regular reports on the cost of the virus, restrictions, and this coming lockdown to lives and livelihoods

Our latest survey finds that nine in ten Party members support such a move – a total that this latest news is unlikely to have reduced.

Introducing a series this week on ConservativeHome with the Centre for Social Justice about the pandemic and fairness

We need a long-term poverty strategy and a Social Justice Cabinet Committee. And here’s a Christmas holiday plan for childrens’ food.

Our survey: more than half of Tory members want Trump to win next week

Fewer than one in four are holding out for Biden. Does this reflect their view of which will be better for Britain, or simply instinctive mistrust of the Left?

From Disraeli to Johnson, the Left has never understood the Right, and Fawcett shows us why

A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.

Will Labour expel Corbyn?

Perhaps the charge of opportunism won’t stick to Starmer, but the Tories are striving, with a vigour that’s been rare recently, to ensure that it does.

Iain Dale: Stop this utter selfishness and pathetic whinging about not having a normal Christmas to look forward to

Plus: After the kidnapping of this Christian girl, we should cut off aid to Pakistan. And: Muslims must face up the fact that terror is claimed in their name.

Matt Vickers: I know from experience why the retail sector matters. So have your say on rates today.

Ae consultation on the issue is taking evidence now – and terms of reference for a review will be published in the Budget.