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”.

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.