Good Grieve

Long-standing Leavers, who stood out for personal conviction against the Party leadership, should understand Remainers who are now in the same position.

“Who will speak for England” after Dacre departs?

For 26 years, the Daily Mail’s editor ensured his newspaper was a loudhailer for a quiet majority – and he inspired love and loathing along the way.

The Budget morning-after. The papers could be a lot worse for the Chancellor.

The FT has the balanced “Grim outlook overshadows housing drive” while the Times goes for “Hammond eases off austerity”. The i has “Hammond’s hard-hat budget”.

Businesses should stop panicking in the face of left-wing twitterstorms

It’s understandable why Paperchase chickened out over their Daily Mail advert – but it was still a mistake.

Iain Dale: Did the whips leak the rebels’ names to the Telegraph?

That’s what Sarah Wollaston suggested on my show this week. Plus: my prison visit, sticking by your friends…and sticking with spending control in the Budget.

The Telegraph’s backfiring attack on “mutineer” MPs points to a strategic problem for Conservatives

Giants of Fleet Street are making political errors which harm, not help, their cause.

Pro-Remain Cabinet Minister “wants Gove as Chancellor”

Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.

Will Corbyn and his colleagues ever apologise for backing the Venezuelan regime?

There is a Labour tradition of defending brutal dictatorships.

Garvan Walshe: Could Poland’s populist assault on the judiciary happen here?

The modern state is intended to restrain those who seek a monopoly on power. Such people naturally resent it when that system works.

Kieron O’Hara: Seven ways to reach younger voters. Including, as May is doing today, reaching out to other parties.

If the Conservatives spoke a progressive alliance, and meant it, they might be able to make some progress – and break down virulent anti-Toryism.

A comic novel which defends tabloid journalism!

Stephen Glover tells the story of a reporter who sets out to destroy a corrupt MP.

We asked for Grown-Up Government. Now we’ve got it.

May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.

Garvan Walshe: Macron’s victory means that May’s Brexit strategy must change fast

By seeing off Le Pen and electing the most ideologically pro-EU president since Giscard d’Estaing, France has changed the game.

ConHome is told that Foges, Fox and Seely are the three finalists for the Isle of Wight

CCHQ has been taken to task elsewhere for imposing lists of candidates on seats with no connection to it. It certainly hasn’t done so in this case.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May walks all over Corbyn on her way to the election

It was not an edifying spectacle, but it was convincing in its way.