Iain Dale: Only one of the two Conservative Chairmen may be in trouble over donations. And it isn’t Amanda Milling.
Plus: Why on earth has my bank shortened its name to Abrdn? And: The DUP should think carefully about toppling Arlene Foster.
Rehman Chisti: We must not level down the South East in pursuit of levelling up other areas of the country.
Medway, the unitary authority for my constituency of Gillingham and Rainham, is in the top 22 per cent of the most deprived areas for education in England.
Davis: Conservative Party loans and donations to the Party leader should require approval in advance
We’re told that such approval from the Finance Committee is sought only for donations, not loans – “which don’t count as expenditure”.
“Genuinely haven’t seen complaints”…”Not a single e-mail”…”Nobody is raising it”. Tory MPs on sleaze claims and the local elections.
Just one question: is the Party failing collectively over expectations management? Hopes over Hartlepool risk running out of control.
Garvan Walshe: Modi, India’s strongman, has weakened his country abroad as well at home – through his terrible Covid mismanagement
This disaster points Indians to the danger of government by emergency men, not emergency measures.
Danny Kruger: Charities must be allowed to carry out their work. Our most vulnerable children need them.
A survey of the 400 plus Centre for Social Justice Alliance’s charities found that members felt undermined by statutory services.
The Post Office – and a scandal that must never, ever be allowed to happen again
The miscarriage of justice was technically caused by technology – but actually came down to human greed and arrogance.
Lord Ashcroft: My survey of Scottish voters. The SNP maintains its lead for the Holyrood elections. But there are clouds on its horizon.
For many, Brexit is a powerful justification for a new independence referendum. But this, too, works both ways.
Daniel Hannan: The pandemic, in Britain, is over. But are we ready to cry freedom?
The trouble is that lifting restrictions is an altogether tougher proposition than not imposing them in the first place.
Radical: What Peter Singer and his philosophical beliefs have taught me about the gender debate.
The biggest surprise of the philosopher’s long-awaited Journal of Controversial ideas is what it claims to be controversial.
Conservative Party Board members “raising questions about Party funds and the Prime Minister”
More broadly, Party members will be well aware that their control over its spending is so limited as scarcely to exist.
Slowing the loss of senior staff is integral to shoring up Johnson’s Government – and enabling it to deliver
The pace of departure, the allegations about him and how they’re being handled are all inextricably linked.
Ryan Bourne: A lesson from the pandemic. We place high value on all our lives – including those of the elderly.
Why, then, are certain lockdown sceptics so keen to play down the loss of older lives? Aside from these errors, I suspect motivated reasoning is at play.
Barnaby Lenon: Why scrapping public exams for good, and replacing them with teacher assessment, would be a big mistake
Exams are the essential building block of motivation. Ask any teacher who has had to teach an unexamined course to 15-year olds.
Is the Government’s Hong Kong migration policy sustainable?
Ministers may be right in assuming that nothing like the full complement of those entitled to settle do so. But what if they’re wrong?