Imran Ahmad Khan: Now is the right time for the UK to evolve a sharper and tighter foreign policy

Now more than ever, a coherent, holistic strategy is required that will unite and enhance our capabilities to advance Britain’s position in the world.

Britain’s relationship with the EU: no love affair, followed by a bad marriage and a stormy divorce

In his new history, Stephen Wall describes the unbridgeable divide on Europe into which any Prime Minister is in danger of tumbling.

Alberto Costa: There are too many barriers to Britishness. Post-Brexit, it’s time for a more welcoming citizenship policy.

A positive agenda would encourage those whom we are now seeking to attract to take that extra step.

Liz Truss: The naysayers doubted the speed of the UK’s deal with Japan. But it’s here – and takes us closer to more.

This agreement paves the way for what could be the most exciting step yet for Global Britain’s independent trading story.

From Disraeli to Johnson, the Left has never understood the Right, and Fawcett shows us why

A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.

Andrew Bowie: We need to rediscover the quiet strength of British patriotism

Our tradition has never been the pomp and exuberance of Bastille Day or the Fourth of July. But we must do more to bring this country together.

Dean Russell: As a volunteer in my local hospital, I’ve seen at first hand the damage done to NHS staff morale by fearmongering

If staff hear a constant flow of worst-case scenarios presented as the norm, it understandably affects their anxiety levels.

Ed West: So far, 2020 has proved my most pessimistic expectations to be horribly true. How very satisfying.

There’s nothing better than being proven right, even if it’s to confirm your original prediction of doom-laden misery.

Daniel Hannan: Sweden settled in for the long haul, and now doesn’t need to worry about a second surge

Having correctly judged that there would be no immediate vaccine, it opted for a sustainable response.​

Sunder Katwala: Gandhi does not quite fit the bill of recognising ethnic minority Britons on our currency

He may have been one of the greatest figures to shape the 20th century, but a simplistic deification risks losing the complexity of the man.

Local lockdowns are dispiriting – but there are reasons to be hopeful about the battle against Coronavirus

The detection of spikes is, paradoxically, a consequence of the country’s improved testing regime. 

Conservative MPs must be ready to keep Sunday special

A limited suspension is one thing, lasting change would be another. And so often, nothing is so permanent as the temporary.

Andrew Bowie: Events are moving dangerously quickly in the South China sea. Global Britain must step up.

The Chinese Communist Party has enhanced its campaign to dominate this critical waterway. Our country and its allies must act.

Imran Ahmad Khan: After this pandemic, the UK must end its reliance on the China-centric supply chain.

It’s time Britain re-established itself as an industrious, manufacturing nation – by strengthening its capacity in Yorkshire and the North-East.