“Populism of left and right poses enormous risks to this country’s prosperity.” Gauke’s speech to Onward – full text

“The disenchantment of the traditional working class with the left clearly creates an opportunity for the right.”

Scruton – and the gulf between Conservatives in Parliament and conservatives outside it

The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.

Richard Ritchie: Christianity and politics at Easter. Do the Gospels present a manifesto?

Christ’s resurrection certainly doesn’t help us out on Brexit – unless it be to remind us of the Christian virtues of temperance and respect.

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.

Rachel Wolf: The Government’s porn crackdown. It sounds great. But it won’t work.

If we can’t think of anything that’s going to do real good, maybe we could act like true Conservatives for once – and choose to do nothing at all?

Lee Rowley: Brexit is big. But our politics is bigger – and I say that as a committed Leaver. Here are some ideas to boost it.

Remainers and Brexiteers alike must recognise the politicians are stuck in an ever-decreasing circle of fervour, hyperbole and hysteria.

James Frayne: Five new political parties that could be formed

Specifically for anti-Brexit politicians, the path to creating such a party lies firmly on what we think of as the Left;

Tim Dawson: The BBC Murders. How the corporation used anti-Brexit poison to bump off Poirot.

Its left-wing, metropolitan agenda is now at the heart of everything it does. And viewers are switching off in droves.

Hillary Su: From childhood in communist China to Tory candidacy in London. Why I am a Conservative.

I still remember the first time when I bit into a Chips Ahoy cookie. Oh heavens, there was nothing like it – this must be what freedom tastes like.

Nick Hargrave: The Conservative split is coming. Indeed, it is already here. Unless…

Perhaps, against all the odds, we will find a way of muddling through and preserve our broad church for a time after the era of Brexit has passed.

A cry of rage against the BBC

Robin Aitken, who worked for the Corporation for 25 years, accuses it of propagating liberalism and suppressing conservatism behind a pretend impartiality.

Catherine Utley: Let’s end the civil partnership ban on these devoted, long-term, cohabiting people

Siblings who have lived together for many years should be entitled to the same rights and protections.

Neil Shastri-Hurst: McCain in America, Mercer here in Britain. It’s time for soldier-statesmen to take the lead.

These men and women offer a solution to a nation and a wider world crying out for leadership. They truly get the concepts of duty, service, and nationhood.

Nick Hargrave: Cameron’s modernisation was necessary then. And an updated version is necessary now.

When you’re worried about your child’s school, politicians look remote when they sound more interested in acronym bingo on whether we should look more like Canada or Norway.

Marshall Tisdale: I’m young, gay, state-educated – and Tory. No wonder Owen Jones hasn’t published his interview with me.

I didn’t have private tutoring, I didn’t go to the local grammar school, I don’t fit the Left’s stereotype. Is that why it’s been kept back?