Jonathan Werran: As recent local elections showed, the mayoral revolution has been a success. Now it must roll on.

The role of strong local leadership here cannot be underestimated in galvanizing place prosperity.

This year there are a record number of Mayoral races. West Yorkshire is the latest addition.

The West of England was a narrow Conservative victory last time. It is likely to be closely fought again.

Jonathan Clark: In the post-pandemic world, both teacher assessments and public exams will fade away

The second in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.

Jonathan Werran: Why Oxford should be a focal point for post-pandemic and post-Brexit growth

It contributes a tidy £6.75 billion in GVA to the national economy each year as a net contributor to Treasury coffers.

Bernard Jenkin: How the power of local teamwork and public support can make test and trace work

The key lesson from the Cambridge scheme is the importance of public support. Eighty per cent of students volunteered to take part.

Ben Everitt: Why the plan for a technical university in Milton Keynes offers new opportunities for higher education – and business

Free Schools spotted a gap in the market and provided a solution to fill it. This initiative has the potential to do the same.

James Palmer: Why I’m backing electric bikes as a safe and healthy way to travel in my region

Emissions from cars are 50 per cent above the national average in Cambridgeshire. We need to boost alternatives to ease congestion.

Raghib Ali: Systemic classism, not racism. Why the main factor in health and educational inequalities is deprivation, not race.

There is now no overall ‘white privilege’ in health or education or overall ‘BAME disadvantage’. These categories are outdated and unhelpful.

Neil O’Brien: No, more economic prosperity doesn’t depend on more social liberalism

I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.

James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country

We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.

“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.

Neil O’Brien: R & D. We invest disproportionately in the first at the expense of the second. Here’s how to improve.

This imbalance is driven by the core science budget: the Research Councils (which fund projects) and Quality Related “QR” funding, which universities allocate.

Neil O’Brien: Stormzy, “niggas”, “bitches” – and scholarships. Do we really want to fund racial groups?

Collecting statistics on people’s self-identified racial background is one thing.  Having ringfenced funding for one racial group is quite another.

Neil O’Brien: Policies for a new Britain – in which the central point for new Tory MPs is the moors on the edge of Sheffield

Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.