Liam Fox: Are we really going to close down the global economy every time a new virus emerges?
We have to ask whether high bed occupancy rates in the NHS are tilting the balance between efficiency and resilience in the wrong direction.
Time for a Coffey break
The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.
Richard Ekins: How to reform our Supreme Court
The Government’s plan may mean a change from the Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – widening the set of judges who sit.
Johnson should be deeply wary of opening Pandora’s Box with a constitutional commission
Advocates of every hoary old reform would immediately set to work arguing that the Union could be saved by their One Weird Trick.
Julian Brazier: A single allowance rate for Inheritance Tax – and five other proposals for making social care more resilient
Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.
The amazing story of Mohammad Sarwar shows how Sturgeon can be defeated
The former Glasgow MP is now, astonishingly, Governor of Punjab, while his son is getting ready to attempt the revival Scottish Labour.
Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.
Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.
Mark Garnier: I have never voted against the Government before. But the proposed cut to foreign aid leaves me with no choice.
My colleagues and I were elected on a promise to uphold our aid commitment. Breaking my word is a very big deal.
May – beached not only by frustration and defeat, but by the sheer pace and scale of change
The temptation of having a go at Johnson might have been withstood, but that of also taking pot-shots at Trump proved irresistible.
Emily Carver: The struggle against lockdowns seems to be lost. But we must never give up on our civil liberties.
We would be foolish to close our eyes to the reality: the Government continues to exercise unprecedented powers, with negligible parliamentary scrutiny,
Andrew Lewer: It’s time to turn off the taxpayer funding of left-wing student union campaigning
Judging by its social media activity, the National Union of Students’ main current focus is ‘decolonising the curriculum’.
Andrew Haldenby: Cameron was right to bury Labour’s targets regime. Johnson shouldn’t now seek to resurrect it.
If Ministers don’t trust the police to use the extra officers, why did they decide to recruit them in the first place?
We wish the new President all the best as he starts but fear that his term won’t end well
It would take a political genius of Mount Rushmore proportions to restore civic peace to America and Biden, for all his good qualities, isn’t one.
Lord Ashcroft: For many voters, America’s election was not about Biden – but a referendum on Trump
The new President’s problems will begin right at the start with whatever he decides to do next.
Ryan Bourne: A reassuringly conservative speech from Starmer’s Shadow Chancellor. The Tories will need to up their game.
This is not to say that all of Dodds’ analysis is coherent or correct, but the days of unhinged Corbynite attacks on capitalism are over.