Jack Richardson: Critical minerals. We can and should offer a better model than China’s one of extraction at any cost.

There are also diplomatic and geostrategic opportunities for Global Britain to lead on developing human and environmental standards.

Austria’s illiberal lockdown policy should make leaders think harder about their Covid measures

The international community should be more critical of the country, but that’s difficult when others have also embraced draconian rules.

Interview with Tobias Ellwood: Johnson lacks “serious expertise, people with political acumen, over in the Number 10 machine”

The row over the Northern Ireland Protocol must not be allowed to poison co-operation with our continental partners on defence against Russia.

Emily Carver: The UK’s efforts against climate change will mean nothing without the world’s biggest polluters onboard

Many high-emitting nations are either avoiding COP altogether or stalling when it comes to committing to carbon targets.

Australia’s Covid elimination strategy deserved as much criticism as Sweden’s approach

After numerous protests, leaders have been forced to rethink their insistence on repeated lockdowns.

Daniel Hannan: Lord Frost’s speech yesterday exposed the staggering petulance of Britain’s Euro-zealots

A section of the commentariat was so unbalanced by the referendum result that it now automatically sides with the EU.

WATCH: The Foreign Secretary promises “to make our country more competitive, safer, and freer”

Truss says her “vision is to strengthen our economic and security ties in order to build a network of liberty around the world.”

Daniel Hannan: Forget Rayner and ‘scum’. It was Reeves’ interview this week that revealed why Labour is unelectable.

Here, in a nutshell, is why Labour is struggling to make progress. Its obsession with identity politics puts it at odds with the majority of British people.

Stephen Booth: So you thought Global Britain meant nothing much? Think again as AUKUS takes shape.

One of the major question marks against Brexit was whether it would see the UK lose its influence over global affairs. This alliance suggests no.

Ben Roback: AUKUS shows that delivering ‘global Britain’ creates losers as well as winners

There are many areas, not least small boats in the Channel, where the UK needs a strong working relationship with France.

WATCH: The AUKUS deal “is not exclusionary or adversarial towards anybody”, says Johnson

“We stand shoulder to shoulder with France in so many important ways”, the Prime Minister adds.

Olivier Guitta: Biden’s decision to snub France will weaken, not embolden, the U.S. in its dealings with China

The AUKUS alliance will merely push away France, which has been one of the most sanguine countries to oppose China’s influence.

AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific. A tilt to it, yes. A lunge, no.

Putin’s Russia is closer to home – remember the Salisbury attack – and Islamist extremism is already here.

Terry Barnes: The significance of this new U.S-UK-Australia security pact – and Johnson’s tilt to the Indo-Pacific

The deal sends a starkly clear message to China – and will reassure India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan that their security interests are also British interests.

John Baron: We need a new defence alliance with other allies as well as the United States

In tandem with countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and France, we should consider a stronger humanitarian-orientated alliance which has teeth.