Iain Dale: The Jenrick row. What grudge could the Daily Mail possibly have against the former owner of the Daily Express?

But if you sup with Desmond, use a very long spoon. Plus: Remainer mania remains. And: Masked, I prepare to take the train.

Iain Dale: The arrogance of Cummings, the failures of the Guardian – and why we all need to keep a sense of proportion.

He’s a distraction and so can’t possibly have his mind on the job. But the Guardian and Mirror got a lot of the story wrong – and should apologise.

Buffoonery, suffused sex and Latinate evasion: how Johnson’s language helped him become Prime Minister

This compilation of some of the terms he has used shows how, while rising to national leadership, he reassured outsiders that he was still one of them.

Daniel Hannan: Alarmism, doom-mongering, panic – and the coronavirus. We are nowhere near a 1919-style catastrophe.

Nothing I have written should be taken as a suggestion that we drop our guard or stop taking precautions. But, assuming we do that, there is no reason to panic. Cheer up.

James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.

The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.

Boris, Actually

Today’s choice is between Marxist extremists and a Conservative Government different from its predecessors only in that it wants to leave the European Union.

“Take the deal” – a positive crop of front pages for the Prime Minister

Fleet Street’s reaction will please Downing Street.

Iain Dale: Corbyn’s party sinks deeper into anti-semitism

Plus: No, the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit wasn’t altogether a failure. And: Costa should get his old job back.

Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning

If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.

Brexiteer MPs no longer have a champion in Fleet Street

Today’s Daily Mail confirms that, under Geordie Grieg, its editorial policy has shifted. Clean Brexit supporters are short of a committed backer that counts.

Robert Halfon: Please, please free me from Brexit Groundhog Day Brexit Groundhog Day Brexit Groundhog Day…

Plus: The train of communism stalls but the train of conservatism stutters. And: Tackling Burning Injustices does not mean taxing milkshakes.

White Flag or Union Flag?

As our proprietor and his co-author prepare to release a new book on defence, we say again what we’ve said before about the implications of Brexit for the armed forces.

The radical, anti-establishment, change-focused election launch speech drafted for May – but which she never delivered. Full text.

It was junked for a Crosby-approved alternative. Here it is in full for the first time.

Davidson, the best hope of the Stop Johnson campaign

A new biography fails to convey the Scottish Conservative Leader’s gusto, but does show how traditional she is.

James Frayne: As the Guardian pushes for the Left, will the Mail do the same for the Right?

The former’s readership has risen. The latter’s leadership is changing. What will this and other changes mean for our political culture?