Garvan Walshe: Leaving Afghanistan won’t stop terrorists using failed states. How can we learn from our mistakes?

It is time to consider some sort of international stabilisation and counter-terrorist organisation.

Garvan Walshe: Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan may not be a strategic mistake, but it is a moral disaster.

Afghan security force members are being murdered. Girls’ schools are being shut down. Iran and Russia are weighing up a return to the quagmire.

Robert Buckland: More prison places, a domestic abuse bill, tougher sentences. How we’re acting on the people’s priorities.

We controlled Covid in our prisons, kept the courts running throughout lockdown, and were the first in the western world to resume jury trials.

Austen Morgan: The strange story of Adams, the IRA, imprisonment, compensation – and an important decision for Ministers

Will they fight any following cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and ask it to overturn Kerr’s decision?

Defence and security. Having tilted towards the Indo-Pacific, we need a tilt back to Europe

Wallace has done well to win an exceptional defence settlement, but it may not be enough to fund all the Integrated Review’s ambitions.

Why was there no reference to Islamist extremism in Johnson’s terror speech?

Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.

David Lidington: We have left the EU and there is no turning back. Here’s what our new relationship with Europe should look like.

Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.

Gary Powell: How the Met went after Grimes – but turned a blind eye to incitement to murder the Prime Minister

The Government is turning a blind eye to self-evident politicisation – a miserable milestone in the Conservative Party’s masochistic colonisation by woke ideology.

Alistair Burt: Global Britain can also be European Britain

Multilateral political cooperation with the EU, as well as the bilateral relations with its member states, remains in the UK’s best interest.

Garvan Walshe: Macron is running out of time in which to prevail against the far left, far right – and Islamist extremism

After the beheading of Samuel Paty, there are huge questions for the president as to how he can prevent such an atrocious crime again.

The case for a new treason offence

Ministers believe that the present legal framework isn’t fit for purpose if prosecutions of returning terrorists are to be successful. 

Where is the Conservatives’ Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission?

The Court of Appeal’s judgement in the Begum case is a reminder of wider issues – and the pledge in last December’s manifesto.

Hugo de Burgh: We owe it to future generations of Brits to work with China

It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.

Richard Ekins: How the Supreme Court has empowered Gerry Adams to sue the Government – and seek damages

Worse, its judgement has knock-on implications for the effectiveness of government. Urgent corrective legislation is needed.

Owen Paterson: Cameron’s Coalition was formed ten years ago today. It left us a message of hope that we should honour.

As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.