Gavin Williamson: Why raising the number and profile of women in our armed forces is a priority for me

Parity is important because it sends a message that we believe in the equality that our women and men are working to protect in conflict zones.

Baroness Helic and Chloe Dalton: The victims of sexual violence in war have no #MeToo hashtag to highlight their story

The UK could set a lead by announcing that it will dedicate a fixed or minimum percentage of the aid budget to fighting sexual and gender based violence.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why over-policing undermines the police themselves – and civil society

Improving the situation means not only holding the police to greater account, but behaving more responsibly ourselves.

Benedict Rogers: The plight of Burma’s Muslims is stoking Islamist extremism here – one of many reasons why Britain must act

Britain should call in the Burmese ambassador, suspend its training programme with the Burma Army, and continue to press at the UN.

Alex Morton: Identity politics is wrong – and bad for Tories, too. So if May is staking a revival on it, her difficulties will deepen.

The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.

Parveen Hassan: The relationship between Britain and Bangladesh is increasingly important to both countries

Conservatives Friends of Bangladesh plays an important part in strengthening economic, cultural and political ties.

Daniel Hannan: Uganda shows the power of the free market in action

A comparison with its neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is stark.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: Five ways of gaining more ethnic minority votes for the Conservatives

There has been progress – and there are signs that many BME Labour voters are beginning to feel that their votes are being taken for granted.

Andrew Green: International students – shifting sands?

These Lords amendments are an attempt by the Higher Education lobby to throw off the yoke of Government immigration controls.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: Citizenship ceremonies at the Cup Final – and a new migration model for Post-Brexit Britain.

Modern Britain’s new report, released today, proposes increasing the number of highly-skilled migrants while significantly reducing low-skilled immigration.

Graeme Archer: Murdered gays. Banned Jews. But stick to those anti-Trump protests, comrade – and avert your eyes.

Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.

“NATO – the cornerstone of the West’s defence”. The Prime Minister’s speech to the Republican Party Congress: full text

“Let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.”

May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text

“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”

Daniel Gibbs: Margaret Thatcher, environmentalist

She had a profound impact on the ownership, focus and language of the debate about climate change and global warming.

Charles Tannock: A fair deal for the Commonwealth already exists – in the EU

The mythical post-Brexit ideal of unfettered access to the Single Market most closely resembles deals only open to less developed countries.