Why we need to take note of America’s heroin epidemic

If the trend of the last decade continues, it won’t be long before America has a million active heroin users.

Bombing ISIS in Syria. Cameron must take his party with him, and not rely on support from Labour

There is now a strong case for widening the air strikes against ISIS in which we already take part.

Heresy of the week: The American Revolution was a wrong turn in history

Terrible things were done by the British Empire, but if the Revolution had failed then fewer terrible things would happened.

Catholicism, climate change and right-wing political correctness

Climate contrarianism has become an article of faith on the American right.

New evidence on family stability in red and blue America

There are two pro-family forces at work in America – rational calculation and shared belief.

The Clinton campaign shows that establishment politicians aren’t as well-established as they think

Hillary Clinton finds herself under serious pressure from the American equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn.

David Davis MP: For the Marshall Plan, read the Cameron plan. The Prime Minister’s opportunity to save Greece – and lead in Europe

Misery for the Greeks and the risk to the European financial system will go on and on and on – unless leadership is exercised. We are perfectly placed to provide it.

Rebecca Coulson: A libertarian case for gun control

The NRA have become caricature reactionaries, more like the big state than they care to admit.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Who’s afraid of Big Bad Putin? He has overplayed his hand.

Russian President has trapped himself in a self-destructive spiral of nationalist rhetoric, economic self-harm and military aggression.

Iain Dale: Cameron’s EU negotiation policy. “Give me what I want or…er, I’ll stay In”

Plus: Go, Corbyn, go! Go, Zac, go! Happy Birthday, IEA. Racism in America. Welfare in Britain. And: If Wellington had lost, we’d all be speaking French.

Lewis Baston: The General Election of 1900 – the narrow Conservative win that turned out to be an illusion

We cannot know yet whether 2015 was the start of a new ascendancy or whether, like 1900, it is an anomaly that posterity hardly notices.

John Redwood MP: The TTIP – another reason why the EU lets us down

It gives free trade a bad name with the Left, causes delays in getting progress on market access, and leaves us unable to shape an agreement which suits us.

Further evidence for the link between family breakdown and economic inequality

For a more equal society we need stronger families.

Quentin Langley: A secret of our recent success. We understand the Left better than it understands us.

We think they’re mistaken. They simply think we’re evil. And their error may have contributed to the failure of the polls.

Rebecca Coulson: America should know better than to use the death penalty

It can be necessary to kill, in self-defence or war. But to do so after consideration with the potential victim under arrest? It’s an abuse of power.