Daniel Hannan: Corbyn’s first instinct in a national crisis is to treat it as a way to attack the Tories – much to Putin’s satisfaction

Ask one question: In what conflict has Jeremy Corbyn ever been on Britain’s side? He always finds a way of blaming the world’s problems on the West.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

WATCH: Wallace: “In the best case scenario, Corbyn turned a blind eye to a whole series of very nasty people”

Our Executive Editor discusses the allegations that the Labour leader and other MPs met with Communist spies during the Cold War.

It’s not a ‘smear’ to say chunks of the 20th Century Left were Soviet useful idiots – or worse

Throughout the Cold War there were many good people on the Left who held to what was right. Then there were people like Corbyn and Milne.

Benedict Rogers: Britain must honour Major’s promise that ‘Hong Kong will never have to walk alone’

China is disregarding its pledge of ‘one country, two systems’ – as a result the rule of law in the territory is under threat from growing autocracy.

Alexander Temerko: The Conservative Party needs reform from top to bottom

Party members should elect our next Chairman and other key figures. Through this process, we will be able to identify talented candidates and platforms.

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.