Lewis Baston: The Conservative local election landslide of 1968

How a unique combination of Heath and Powell saw the Tories swept to power from Sheffield to Lambeth.

Iain Dale: As I prepared for my Question Time debut, I heard that Diane Abbott had pulled out. Was it something I said?

Plus: May in trouble and Rudd in danger over Windrush. Corbyn stumbles. The pound rises. Local elections loom. And: the dignity of Neville Lawrence.

When think tanks think and when think tanks tank

Onward, FREER, the revitalised CPS. The Tory MPs involved in all these will have to take some risks if they’re to get off the groumd.

Alistair Lexden: Neville Chamberlain – the unappreciated merits

The work done in partnership with Baldwin, and by Chamberlain alone after 1937, gave Britain some of the best welfare services in the world.

Dan Pitt: Green politics can be deeply Tory – in its sense of conservation, piety, and obligation to those living and dead

Part of settling down and marking time, as Roger Scruton would say, is protecting our environment. Doing so is an unchosen obligation upon us.

London’s local elections. Beware of spin.

The capital isn’t a single political entity. Rather, it is still in some ways a Napoleon-of-Notting-Hill-style mass of small towns.

Alex Morton: Without capitalism in capital markets, Corbyn wins

Lower interest rates and monetary manipulation have been presented as the solution to our economic woes. But increasingly they create them.

Whatever happened to the Big Society? 2) Jesse Norman: What it is – and why it matters

We need to renew that belief, that self-belief, and that optimism – about people, about society, about freedom and about human life – more than ever.

Lewis Baston: How Torrington launched the tradition of Liberal by-election shocks

Looking back, 55 years of Liberal and Liberal Democrat by-election success looks less important than UKIP’s two-year surge.

Iain Dale: Is Barnier now conspiring with Corbyn to bring down May?

Plus: Major’s error. The Prime Minister’s jokes. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. And: the angels want to wear my red suit.

Richard Ritchie: The deeper reason for the hostility to a Powell plaque in Wolverhampton

When a ‘right-wing’ politician is nominated for a plaque, it is almost bound to be controversial with ‘the left’. Tories are much more generous.

Nicky Morgan: Conservatives helped to deliver votes for women. Now we should provide votes at 16.

By accepting that 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland could vote on their future during the Scottish referendum, we undermined the case for not extending the franchise further.

WATCH: Nancy Astor – the first woman MP to sit in the Commons. And a Conservative.

“I think it’s amazing how well the men did for two thousand years considering that they tried to do it alone.”

Edward Rees: Taking inspiration from Thatcher’s NHS reforms to improve the service today

The current pressures faced by the health service are not new or exclusive to the 21st Century. Let’s learn from past experience.

Why are audiences breaking into applause after the new Churchill film?

He was a man of Empire – not a little Englander, but a Great Britainer. One might also say a Global Britainer, which returns one to Brexit.