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.

Shaun Spiers: The answer to the housing shortage is more planning, not less

And, as Boles says, we will never build the number of homes we need unless the state is building 100,000 a year.

Profile: The Prince of Wales. Will he reign well?

It is an extremely tough task to prepare to be a constitutional monarch, or indeed to take on the actual role.

Strength through joy?

Change, optimism and hope are a step up from paralysis, despair and pessimism. But successful politicians don’t necessarily radiate uplift.

Alan Mak: Investing in new technology will create a new era of patient power

As I set out in my report, my challenge to the NHS is to move all GP surgeries and hospitals from being paper-first to digital-first organisations over the next 10 years.

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

John Penrose: Why we need a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Economically, it could be transformational, as it has been in Norway, which established its fund back in the early 1990s. It is now worth over a trillion dollars.

Young Labour’s anti-NATO policy is stuffed full of bogus, ahistorical nonsense

The future leaders of the Left either don’t know their history, or prefer a made-up version of it.

The Conservatives have urgent work in the North of England

For Britain to prosper after Brexit, and Corbyn to be thwarted, the Northern Powerhouse is indispensable.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

The political imperative of public empathy

The Prime Minister needs to be more self confident with the media.

Dean Godson: Has May conquered class politics for the Conservatives?

Gender, race and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation. The Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging peak: class.

Mohammed Amin: Why referendums are almost always a bad idea

Even when the question is properly specified, they offer voters a binary choice without any consideration of the consequences that potentially flow.

George Maggs: Brexit. Trump. Not a revolt against the elites, but an upsurge of patriotism

A fundamental clash between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism is taking place – and it cuts across Left and Right.

Lewis Baston: Wilson. Attlee. Major. The costs, gains and consequences of devaluation

It has been where there is an air of panic and chaos, with a government forced to bow its knee to the markets, that there is real political damage.