Jonathan Werran: The power of pubs to support communities and drive the recovery

Among our recommendations today, Localis is urging central government to further reduce the tax burden on the pub sector.

The Mordaunt affair. If there’s a ban on Ministerial engagement with the MCB, it must be enforced.

Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.

Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong

An emergency cross-departmental ministerial meeting must take place – to ensure there’s a strategy for Hong Kongers’ arrival.

Emma Revell: Lockdown’s threat to liberty

If we don’t push back against encroaching regulation, there is a very real risk that coercive policies can – and will – overstay their welcome.

Ryan Shorthouse and Anvar Sarygulov: We need more migrants to become citizens

Doing so would improve social integration, enhance the contribution that migrants make, and allay public discontent over immigration.

“Get out of London.” Now watch Johnson and Cummings turn the country upside down. Or try to.

Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.

Ryan Shorthouse: How to boost integration

What is it – and how can we strengthen it? That is the focus of Bright Blue’s latest report, published today.

Shabnam Nasimi: From refugee to Tory activist and campaigner. Why I am a Conservative.

I instinctively agreed with the Conservatives and their emphasis on hard work, enterprise, their belief in the One Nation, and their willingness to promote aspiration.

Andy Street: Anti-Muslim terror and anti-gay protests. The one thing we mustn’t tolerate is intolerance – wherever it comes from.

The New Zealand attack, the Birmingham school protests – and what we’re doing in the West Midlands to build cohesion and resilience.

The Conservatives and anti-Muslim prejudice. A role for the Extremism Commissioner.

Sara Khan should hold an investigation into racial and religious prejudice among all the main parties.

Why an updated treason law would help to boost community cohesion

One thinks of the need for such as a measure as justice-related and security-related. But it would also send a powerful signal.

“No-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.” Really? We vote to deny ourselves money all the time.

Security, cohesion, integration, solidarity: all are intangible. But we pay – literally – to gain them. Why single out self-government?

Exclusive. “In a timely manner”. The best part of six months on, the Party’s inquiry clears Johnson over his burka column.

Launched amidst the inevitable blaze of publicity, the decision has been smuggled out like the fabled thief in the night.

Nick Hargrave: Yes, I compiled an attack dossier on Johnson. But at best, there’s a real purpose to opposition research.

It works best when painting a substantive contrast on issues that voters care about. And here are four strategic choices for the Conservatives.

Alex Morton: The purpose of education is to give people skills for life. And we have lost sight of it.

It would be wrong to try to create a system of conservative indoctrination because so-called progressives have indoctrinated children and students in other ways.