Iain Dale: If the Second World War had been fought in the days of 24 hour news channels, we’d have lost

Plus: My video tour of my bookshelves and why I won’t indulge editors. Three times in the last few days I’ve said no to them.

Neil O’Brien: The balance of power between economic and social conservatives may be shifting to the latter

We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.

WATCH: “People need to be really careful what they wish for.” Robbie Gibb on abolishing the licence fee.

May’s former Director of Communications was interviewed by Mark Wallace at a Taxpayers’ Alliance event.

Robert Halfon: Let licence fee payers vote for the BBC’s next Director-General.

Plus: More Ronseal, please. And: If the Treasury wants to flick multiple V-signs at blue collar voters, it will put up fuel duty.

James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.

The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.

Beware the Eye of Johnson

It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.

Whacking the BBC. Change is coming – whether the Corporation likes it or not.

This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.

Damian Green: Enough of this BBC-bashing. A weaker corporation would mean a weaker culture. And no Tory should want that.

If we are going to make a reality of Global Britain, we need to capitalise on the things about our country that the world likes and admires.

Decriminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee is long overdue

It is also politically shrewd – showing free market radicalism and compassion for the poor.

Howard Flight: Business rates, childcare, inheritance tax – and reforms we need.

Finally, the television licence. The principle ought to be that those who wish to watch the BBC pay a fee and those who don’t watch it do not.

Iain Dale: The next BBC Chairman. Andrew Neil, anyone? Robbie Gibb? Michael Portillo?

And the axeing of the Victoria Derbyshire Show suggests that the next Director General must be a transformational one.

Jonathan Clark: I have gazed not on Workington, but on Wokeington – and seen the future

The former may have won a battle, but the latter will win the war. Diverse, inclusive, victimhood culture is the future.

Julian Knight: The Culture Select Committee should act as its own Royal Commission on the BBC’s future

The next few months should see the start of a proper, root-and-branch review of the Corporation to help it find a new model and a new role.

Iain Dale: The time has come to dig up Cameron’s green tree

Plus: Open regional Tory offices but don’t take CCHQ out of London. The coming IR35 disaster. And: where will you be on January 31?

Eddie Hughes: Yes, let’s move CCHQ resources to the regions. But do so authentically.

If we really are becoming the Party of Blue Collar Conservatives, our Party must become the change that we want to see.