Charles Nettlefold: What May can learn from the Chamberlains
She has expressed admiration for Joe, the ambitious social reformer and staunch unionist, but his sons have their own lessons to teach.
Andrew Murrison: International trade. Why small markets matter – and what we should do to get into them
Cortés burnt his ships, thus making a retreat to Europe impossible – and an advance into the New World the only way forward. May now faces her own Cortes Moment.
Jeremy Sher: Future referendums should require a majority of the Home Nations, not just a majority of the people
Our democratic rules have not kept pace with the changing nature of the Union.
Richard Ali: What is our post-Brexit vision for farming and the countryside?
Do we want a New Zealand model of little or no support, or a Norwegian model of high levels of support designed to keep farmers on the land?
Andy Cook: The industrial strategy must help the bottom 20 per cent improve their life chances
Too many people have seen little wage growth in over two decades, and remain in insecure jobs with no prospect of in-work progression.
Kieran Mullan: Trident. Don’t do Putin’s work for him.
The idea that information about the incident in question was crucial to the Commons vote on renewal is ridiculous.
Stella Creasy: Labour and Conservative MPs must work together to ensure that children learn about sexual consent
Of course we battle over our competing visions of Britain. But on something this important we should co-operate.
Mark Tovey: The true cost of obesity is less than half the £6 billion that the Government claims
The relief that obese people afford public services by dying early is almost never acknowledged in the health economics literature.
Peter Aldous: The Government should retain a stake in the Green Investment Bank
Ministers are likely to find a stake valuable – and may find it useful for targeted infrastructure spending.
George Maggs: The reason at the heart of anxiety about mass immigration
No, it isn’t racism. Nor is it economic consequences. Nor even the impact on
public services. Rather, it cuts to the heart of why countries exist at all.
Carolyn Fairbairn: If the Government gets its Industrial Strategy right, we can help make the economy stronger and fairer
We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.
Daniel Downes: We must reform the way we measure successful schools
A narrow, national criteria for success punishes the very diversity and autonomy the Government aims to foster in our education system.
John Penrose: Why post-Brexit Britain will need a sovereign wealth fund
It should be used to pay for what we owe in our pensions and benefits system – and thus provide more inter-generational justice.
Ben Roback: Presidential pinch points: three key hurdles that Trump must vault
With a constant onus on fundraising and campaigning, Republicans up for re-election cannot afford to support Trump for too long if real change isn’t felt in their districts.
Timothy Stafford: Four historical parallels that help understand Trump
America’s long democratic history provide a few guides for navigating the reign of the ‘unprecedented President’.