WATCH: Government must have strategy on mobile networks instead of ‘lurches in policy’ – Dodds

“We’ve been saying that government needs to have a proper strategy around this for many, many months.”

Iain Dale: China’s cyber attacks on Britain. How do I know about them? Because I’ve seen the proof.

I could reveal how it was made available to me, but I’d have to shoot you were I to tell you.

Rob Sutton: Top Tories on Twitter. Case Study 4) Tom Tugendhat

His position has given him the freedom to speak openly and with authority where those holding government portfolios must tread lightly.

Wanted: an international solution to the plight of the Hong Kongers

Three million of them are unlikely to pitch up here, but government must plan for all eventualities – and support for its plan wouldn’t survive a mass influx.

There’s no good reason why Frost shouldn’t serve as National Security Adviser

Perhaps we should all take a step backwards from comparing CVs, and simply ask ourselves who has a record of delivering for Britain.

Alan Mak: Britain should champion a new Five Eyes critical minerals reserve system

The Coronavirus pandemic has taught us the importance of supply chain security, whether for PPE or critical minerals.

Jonathan Djanogly: Parliament should be able to scrutinise new trade deals properly. But the current arrangements are unfit for purpose.

Before any deals are signed, MPs should get to vote on them – as will be the case with the other parties.

Benedict Rogers: We are on the brink of a new Cold War. Hong Kong is the frontline.

If the free world values freedom, then it must wake up to the imminent dangers – or the threat will spread.

Charlotte Leslie: A defining test looms abroad for post-Brexit Britain. Will we act if Netanyahu annexes part of the West Bank?

Or will Britain trade in its global reputation for lawfulness in exchange for keeping Trump sweet for trade?

David Gauke: Big Government is back. It didn’t work before. It may not now. Here’s why we should be wary of it.

Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.

Ben Roback: Why America’s election may turn on jobs, immigration, abortion and China – not race, policing, justice and riots

Trump has shown a rare flash of flexibility in signing a police reform executive order, breaking a hitherto narrow commitment to law enforcement.

No, Prime Minister. Overseas aid and foreign policy aren’t “one and the same”

Furthermore, the change creates a brand new cart to put before the horse – that’s to say, the awaited defence and security review.

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

Alexander Stafford: PPE – and how our throwaway culture is endangering our national security

The production of reusable PPE in such places as Rother Valley would tie in with the North’s vital role in the UK’s green recovery.

Andrew Green: We cannot responsibly fling our doors open to three million Hong Kongers

This is 25 times the number of skilled work permits issued each year to non-EU citizens and their dependants.