James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.
The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.
Beware the Eye of Johnson
It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.
Stephen Booth: Checks in the Irish Sea. What they are, why the UK and EU disgree about them – and how they could wreck the talks
For the Protocol to work over the long-term, broad-based political consent for it must be gained then retained.
Luke de Pulford: Johnson must not quit the fight against modern slavery
Just because it was a focus for Theresa May does not mean it should pass into memory along with her premiership.
Whacking the BBC. Change is coming – whether the Corporation likes it or not.
This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.
Richard Holden: Five ideas for the new Chancellor’s Budget
The Chancellor could please every beer & cider drinker; charity donor; motorhome manufacturer, retailer and owner; caravan site owner, and public toilet user in Britain.
Rebecca Lowe: The Right cannot afford to duck the debate about trans, sex and gender
My lawyer friend Victoria Hewson and I have launched a small, non-funded campaign called ‘Radical’, aimed at fighting for truth and freedom in this arena.
The Prime Minister’s Bridges and Circuses. Why Sunak’s duty is to rein in Johnson’s instincts.
The new Chancellor has work to do if he is to fend off the wrath of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Andrew Laird: An early item for the new Chancellor’s inbox. Community Asset Funds.
The manifesto committed to encouraging local takeovers of civic organisations or community assets under threat – such as local football clubs, pubs or post offices.”
A victory for free speech. But clear legal safeguards are still needed.
Tightening the definition of a “hate incident” would help. Our new Attorney General has a lot of work to do if public confidence is to be restored.
David Gauke: Javid, Smith, Cox. Three fine Ministers fired – so that Number Ten could take back even more control.
But is a system of government whereby all power is concentrated in Downing Street likely to result in that power being well used?
Reshuffle Live Blog – As the reshuffle winds down, the new Johnson Cabinet in full
Having “got Brexit done”, this is the team the Prime Minister wants beside him to push forward his domestic agenda.
Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.
We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.
Reshuffle 2) Iain Dale: It’s a scandal that Housing is now on its tenth Minister in ten years.
Chris Pincher, the new appointee, must stay in the post for the rest of this Parliament. It’s the only way that a strategy can be implemented properly.
Reshuffle 3) Chris White: It isn’t just Ministers who get fired. A third of SpAds are set to lose their jobs.
There will be some bruised personalities on the backbenches who will need careful managing over the next few months, and I hear that Spencer is already on the job.