Comment

Paul Bew: The Backstop would undermine the Good Friday Agreement – but there is a way out of this paralysis

Under international law, it can only be a temporary arrangement – and this must be put in explicit, legally binding, terms.

Tom Harwood: The threat to free speech at universities is not a myth

Durham Students Union is looking into ways of shutting down a new pro-life group on campus. This group is entirely unaffiliated with the students union.

Stella Creasy & Debbie Abrahams: A referendum got us here. Now let a Citizens’ Assembly – and more direct democracy – take us forward.

We want to learn from what other Parliaments have done when faced with difficult choices. Such an assembly would report back within ten weeks.

Richard Kemp and Lee Rotherham: The backstop’s not the only danger in May’s deal. Its defence plans will undermine NATO.

The UK will then, by negligence, have contributed to a catastrophic defence rift between the continents of Europe and North America.

Virginia Crosbie: Mentoring is a very Conservative way to change someone’s life

Make your skills, experience, and contacts available to a disadvantaged young adult.

Simon Marcus: Marxist ideology. Lax courts – and May’s legacy. All have helped to create the new era of gang crime.

While white boys are being saved in Glasgow, a new era of lawlessness has become rationalised in London – and will continue until our leaders come to their senses.

Alastair Thompson: Corbyn – an apologist for the tyrant who rules Venezuela by fear. Let a Commons vote put him on the spot.

Let’s see if Labour stands with Venezuela’s oppressed. For what party could truly say that it supports labour, while lending support to the butchery of labourers?

Damian Hinds: Labour is wrong to turn its back on academies

Putting teachers and heads in charge has consistently allowed schools and pupils to excel. We must continue to put our trust in them.

Chris White: The Cooper amendment threatens to damage the constitution in ways that would be very hard to repair

The constitutional crisis MPs are threatening to bring down on all our heads will have wide-ranging and severe consequences.

Nick Boles: Like all revolutionaries, once-reasonable Brexiteers slide towards ever greater radicalism

Where Farage, Johnson and Paterson once praised the Norway option, it is now denounced as apostasy.

Jonathan Clark: Representative democracy is waning, direct democracy is waxing. So its MPs themselves who will “come to heel”

The object of the exercise is to absorb within a stable democratic practice a new element which, if unabsorbed, may have fatal effects.

Hugo Lucas: We aren’t saying that young people matter more than older people, Chloe. We’re simply saying that they matter.

It is a glaring act of mental collectivisation to lump Our Future, Our Choice in with those who think that over 75s should not be allowed to vote.