China offers pots of money. But beware how low we must bow in order to receive it.

Cambridge University Press is just the latest institution to regret sacrificing fundamental principles in return for Chinese business.

Rob Halfon: What Littlefinger thinks about ladders. Why he’s wrong. And why Corbyn is wrong about them too.

The Conservative view of opportunity is nearer the truth than the cynicism of a villain in Game of Thrones.

42 per cent and no majority 2) The Party must make the case for conservatism to a new generation of voters. It hasn’t for too long.

As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.

Sean O’Callaghan: Puffed-up, bewildered, pampered second-raters. The elites that nearly let an extremist into Downing Street.

There is only one priority: keep the Stalinists, trots, Islamist fellow-travellers, gender and feminist lunatics and, yes, the young deluded idealists out of power.

Jamie Whyte: The Conservatives didn’t win because they rejected Thatcher’s beliefs – a small state and free markets

The “modernisers” think that people with clear principles are cranks. In five years, they may find themselves queuing for food at their local Red Star state supermarket.

George Maggs: We must never forget that Corbyn is a cheerleader for terrorists and tyrants

The tenacity of his public image as a well-meaning grandfather figure doesn’t change his shameful record.

Garvan Walshe: Conservative moderates like me won’t be lured into backing an anti-Tory alliance

But the two halves of any putative progressive alliance are divided. The intelligentsia may be against Brexit, but the working class is enthusiastically for it.

Alistair Burt: Last week, Iain Duncan Smith told his Brexit story. Here’s mine.

The script for the new relationship with the EU must be written as much by those who valued it as by those who campaigned to leave it.

Daniel Hannan: A century since the Communists began their mass slaughter, some still have not learned the lessons

Is it truly necessary to keep reciting these arguments? Sadly, yes – in each generation some people are drawn to brutal ideologies.

The middle class converts to Islamist extremism who want to murder us

Khalid Masood, who murdered PC Keith Palmer, turns out to be one – and was originally called Adrian Elms.

WATCH: Ici Londres – Marx was wrong about everything, says Daniel Hannan

The malign old cadger’s deadly influence lives on.

Castro lost – but democracy isn’t winning

Despite progress in some countries, fewer are free than 20 years ago. Does Trump have a practicable plan – or any at all – to help turn the tables worldwide?

Daniel Hannan: Populists flourish after financial crises – but they get found out in the end

One historical study has found that, on average, authoritarian parties surge by around 30 per cent as the economic consequences play out.

Mohammed Amin: Our non-negotiable values need tighter definition

I would refuse naturalisation as a British citizen to anyone who does not subscribe to the values.

Garvan Walshe: Islamist terrorism can be defeated. The struggle against communism shows us how.

Technical security, good intelligence and confidence in our values saw us through against communism. We need all of them to see the West through this again.