The Moggcast: The Leader of the House’s Jackie Weaver moment
Our interviewee once spent an hour at a meeting “discussing whether it was to be the committee or the provisional committee”.
Will Tanner: Covid and vaccines. Imagine what would have happened if we’d junked intervention – and opted instead for laissez faire.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
The Universal Credit Uplift. Easy in, but not easy out.
There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.
Neil O’Brien: Imperfect vaccines, new variants, domestic mutations. Why there must be no rush out of lockdown.
We need to pace ourselves. We don’t want to go for a big bang reopening only to trigger a new wave and be forced backwards.
Sammy Wilson: The Northern Ireland Protocol should be replaced, not repaired
The proposal put forward by the Centre for Brexit Policy meets the EU demand for protection of its Single Market while also protecting the province.
Shifting health policy leftwards?
A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.
David Davis and Neil Parish: From trade with China to food standards, MPs must be given a guaranteed say on new trade deals
When Brexiteeers campaigned to “Take Back Control” the intention was to bring back control to Westminster. Not Whitehall.
Gimson, Gimson, Gimson…and Gimson. My Coronavirus experience, fifty calls from test and trace. And what I learnt.
Our vaccine success is only likely to be reproduced if ministers concentrate on seeking out the best, not the cheapest, people in any given field.
Oborne condemns Johnson as a liar – and cannot understand why many voters believe the Prime Minister is telling the truth
This book exemplifies the addiction to indignant moralising which blinds so many political commentators to the true nature of their own country.
O’Brien and his critics. Covid sceptics, Covid believers, Covid deniers: cool it.
There is talk of a “Covid-fascist state”. What does any decent person do when confronted by a fascist state? He takes up arms against it.
Iain Dale: Ofcom was right to revoke the license of CGTN. It shouldn’t stop there, though.
Plus: It’s been a bad week for Starmer. And: is it time to bring back the big beasts of the Labour jungle?
Roger Gale: Special relationship or coercion? America’s approach to extradition is not the conduct of an ally.
Biden has recently reaffirmed the Trump administration’s refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas.
Our Cabinet League Table. Truss is still top, Johnson is up again – and Kwarteng comes straight in at fourth.
The Brexit deal bounce in our final survey of last year has left little room for a vaccine bounce in the first survey of this one.
Stephen Booth: Now our own Government says it may trigger Article 16 in Northern Ireland. Is the move a bluff? Or is it for real?
The EU’s missteps over the last week have provided an excellent opportunity to seek changes to the Protocol that might provide for a more durable settlement.
Nus Ghani: China and genocide. Our new proposal answers Ministers’ objections. So they should support it.
So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?