Emily Barley: Child sexual exploitation is not just part of Rotherham’s past

Children are being groomed, raped, and trafficked, because the authorities are still not doing their jobs properly.

Never mind CCTV. A sign should greet Javid in his new office. Saying “Welcome to Hell”.

His in-tray features: Covid, mental health, NHS reform…and social care. He’s set to be the most pressured Health Secretary since Lansley.

Cummings Reborn – as the champion of Parliament. He has given MPs more power, so leaving the inquiry with less.

Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.

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”

Christian Guy: Slavery. Not a remote horror from the past, but a living one in the present. It must be stamped out.

We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.

James Frayne: We should prepare ourselves to hear horrifying tales of what’s happened in lockdown Britain

Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.

Cummings made a reasonable case yesterday, and his critics should accept it – and move on

Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.

Ten questions for Johnson about his lockdown plan

They seem no less relevant this morning than they were yesterday – and are unlikely to be answered this afternoon.

Ten questions for Johnson about his lockdown plan

The proposals he will announce this evening can’t simply be taken on trust by voters.

Who watches the Watsons?

The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party abused his parliamentary privileges. Holding the powerful to account means blocking his peerage.

Robert Halfon: Sex offenders are slipping through the net. They must be stopped.

There are significant loopholes in our safeguarding measures that are entirely preventable, but potentially disastrous.

The abuse scandal revealed Watson as either fool or knave – either ought to mean the end of his career

“The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; the Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.”

Iain Dale: The tragi-comedy of the collapse of Change UK

Plus: Sympathy for the Downing Street SpAds. The case for chemical castration. And: my interviews with the Tory leadership candidates.

George Maggs: Modern feminism is a gendered form of reconstituted socialism

Earlier this month, however, when it emerged that another rape gang had been operating with impunity, this time in Telford, the silence was deafening.

Do the voices shouting down Sara Khan really represent Britain’s Muslims?

Polling suggests real concern among them about extremism. But one wouldn’t think so from the coverage of her appointment.