David Gauke: This Government has a problem with the rule of law. And the threat to it now comes from the Right.

One controversy may be considered to be a misfortune, two looks like carelessness and three suggests a pattern of behaviour.

Profile: George Eustice, negotiating agriculture’s future between farmers, free traders, protectionists and rewilders

The Environment Secretary, in charge of the seven-year transition from the Common Agricultural Policy, prefers to do good by stealth.

William Atkinson: P.J. O’Rourke – the last person to make conservatism cool

In memory of the author of “Republican Party Reptile”, who showed why our economic system won the Cold War.

A minister resigns in protest at the Treasury’s failure to prevent a grotesque waste of public funds

Lord Agnew’s account of why he decided he must go has not had the attention it deserves.

What an absurd displacement activity this sanctimonious babbling about the climate has become

The British are deluged with sanctimonious propaganda about the need to save the planet, and China goes on burning coal.

Maybe the world is not going to hell in a handcart after all

The sparing of Rhodes’s statue, and the rows at Jesus College Cambridge and the National Trust, suggest conservatives are fighting back.

What Thatcher’s response to the AIDS crisis teaches us about tackling the present pandemic

The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.

Ben Monro-Davies: “I think when women cry, often they are angry.” On this day, 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher resigned

At the final meeting of her Cabinet, a revived Iron Lady told members, during a coffee break, that “on no account must Heseltine be elected”

Iain Dale: If Milling isn’t up to being Party Chairman, why was she appointed in the first place?

Plus: virtual conferences are the way of the future. America’s vice-presidential debate worked. And: Fox deserved better from his WTO campaign.

Daniel Hannan: Clever, inquisitive and, crucially, independent, Charles Moore would be the perfect BBC chairman

His critics display the close-mindedness that they falsely suspect in him. Indeed, you won’t find a less partisan man.

Dacre, Moore, Neil. Is triple change coming for the BBC?

Dacre has said that he “would die in a ditch defending it as a great civilising force”, and Moore grasps the Corporation’s original Reithian mission.

The next BBC Chairman? Send for Charles Moore.

The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.

Neave. Berry. Gow. Three Tory MPs murdered by the IRA – an apologist for which Johnson has just sent to the Lords

In Claire Fox, the Prime Minister has elevated to the peerage someone whose former party defended terrorism.

Hammond, Stuart, Davidson, Hoey. Johnson, Fox… but no Bercow. The new peerages for the House of Lords.

The list tries to bridge the Brexit divide. But will Fox, who supported the IRA campaign which killed several Tory MPs, be a bridge too far?

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”.