How Johnson’s editorship of The Spectator delayed his ascent, but perhaps also educated him

A new history of the magazine, which has just celebrated its 10,000th issue, relates how successive editors showed their “hatred of shams”.

When the virus crisis is over, we will have to look at what the NHS can learn from Germany

The West Germans realised, when they set up their health system, that there had to be an entrenched place for competition between different providers.

Profile: Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor who stands between the judges…and the wrath of the Brexiteers

The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.

Scruton and the Tories. “A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country.”

Why is the Party so mistrustful of Tory intellectuals? We mourn the passing of our former contributor.

Moore on Major’s part in Thatcher’s downfall, and why she considered women superior to men

As the final volume of the authorised biography appears, its author remarks that by the end, there was almost no one who could say: “Come on Margaret, stop it.”

The Extinction Rebellion protesters are far more conservative than they realise

And Tories have known since Thatcher’s time that climate change has to be taken seriously.

Johnson’s critics are confronted by the dreadful possibility that he will make a success of Brexit

It is dawning on them that they may have underestimated him. Hence the newly hysterical note in their denunciations.

Who is the real Gove?

A run-off between him and Johnson would risk being seen as a continuation of the “psychodrama” between the two men.

James Frayne: The public’s views on sex and relationships education are more nuanced than you might imagine

If it is framed through the prism of tolerance and anti-bullying, most people support it. But there are still political pitfalls.

Clegg’s career choice reflects how the House of Lords has become diminished

Parliament is struggling to retain senior figures. New peers should be chosen on their ability to raise the calibre of debate.

Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

The poverty of May’s language is an insult to the public

But Corbyn is so third-rate he helps to keep her in power, and both of them epitomise a wider decline in political speech.

Why May – and all her predecessors – have failed to cut the Gordian knot of the EU

Andrew Adonis’ new study of Prime Ministers since Churchill shows how difficult it is to reach an acceptable, and practical, European policy.

Thatcher is “full of wonder and freshness”, but at the end starts sobbing

Caroline Slocock says the first woman Prime Minister, whose downfall she witnessed, deserves the admiration rather than the contempt of feminists.

With the terror threat level at critical, Johnson launches a leadership bid – or so his critics say

His Telegraph article message: “Britain can flourish on WTO”. And how it will inevitably be read: “With May out of Number 10 – and me in”. Watch for calls for his dismissal.