Alex Morton: Scrapping planning won’t happen. And increasing permissions won’t work. Why we need a new Housing Guarantee.
The local plan process must remain at the heart of planning, so we must find a way to work within the existing framework.
While MPs undermine efforts to develop a proper strategy, Jenrick channels Ridley to get houses built
The rate of successful appeals is apparently running higher even than it did during the 1980s.
Daniel Hannan: A tribute to Jens-Peter Bonde. A devastatingly able campaigner and giant of the Eurosceptic movement.
Thoughtful, polite and Left-of-Centre, he was the Eurosceptic whom federalists found it hardest to dislike.
Radical: The ideology of gender identity has been adopted at UK prisons, putting biological women at serious risk
Biologically male offenders who have a gender recognition certificate are being automatically housed in the women’s prison estate.
Bernard Jenkin: The case for renewing our nuclear deterrent is stronger than ever
It is by far the cheapest available option and for what it provides in terms of protection and UK global influence, it is extraordinarily good value.
Loyalist alienation
Political leadership is needed in Belfast no less than in London – in some respects, even more so.
David Gauke: Cameron’s values in government may be out of favour, but they are not wrong
Looked at in the round, over the 2010-2016 period, the UK had the joint highest growth for a G7 economy, level with the US.
Gary Powell: Ministers shouldn’t appease the LGBT+ lobby. It doesn’t speak for all gay people – certainly not for me.
Extreme gender ideology undermines cultural norms, scientific reality, the connection between motherhood and children, parental rights, and free speech.
Cameron and Greensill. We also blame the Sue Gray-ification of British politics.
For us, the key question is: what was Greensill himself doing as an adviser to the Coalition in the first place?
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Duke of Edinburgh – the country’s first vassal, Her Majesty’s liege man
Bagehot’s purely dignified role for the monarchy only works if tireless duty and service are at its heart – as in this case.
Rupert Myers: Let Prince Philip become Plinth Philip
If he isn’t the sort of person we should be erecting statues to, then it’s time to do away with statues altogether.
A prince’s passing is a chance to reflect on why we’re royalists
Constitutionally, socially, and symbolically, the monarchy is an institution that binds us together in ways no presidency could.
Sarah Ingham: We might have had a Juan Carlos or an Ernst August. Instead, we’ve had the Queen – and the Duke.
She has lost a beloved husband and the country has lost one of the most admirable public servants in its history.
After the Duke
In looking to the monarchy’s future, we follow in his footsteps. He was its original moderniser in our times.
William Shawcross: ‘Grief is the price we must pay for love’, as the Queen said. How much she will feel that now.
Far from being a reactionary as sometimes caricatured, he was always compassionate and open-minded, as well as brave.