Garvan Walshe: The Integrated Review’s tilt to Asia could leave us vulnerable closer to home – and Putin

The impulse of Brexit is to prove Britain’s openness by striking out, but this tilt increases our security dependence on Europe.

WATCH: The Prime Minister on the Review – ‘To make the United Kingdom stronger, safer, and more prosperous’

“Our international policy is a vital instrument for fulfilling this Government’s vision of uniting and levelling up across our country.”

James Sunderland: The Integrated Review. To project power in the world, we musn’t skimp on support arms and force protection

And if that projection is to be effective, we will need to invest in our operating bases – and not just at traditional sites.

Johnson – “Our new, full-spectrum approach to cyber will transform our ability to protect our people”

The Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy is upon us. But will the capabilities follow the challenges, or vice-versa?

Fiyaz Mughal: Britain must honour its obligations to Afghan translators who served with our soldiers

The Defence Secretary has done the right thing by extending support to those no longer serving, but that needs to be followed with action.

James Sunderland: The Armed Forces have risen to the challenges of Covid. Parliament must not waste this opportunity to repay them.

The delay to the review, historic increases to defence spending and rumoured cuts to troop numbers paint a picture of an organisation in flux.

Jack Richardson: Green policy as security policy. And why we shouldn’t let China corner the market in new technologies.

The D10 presents an opportunity for coordinating democracies around goals of combating climate change while securing supply chains.

Anand Menon: What does Global Britain mean in practice, and when will the Government deliver it?

It will need to make hard choices and to show evidence of a clarity and long-term vision that, to date, have been rather notable by their absence.

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.

Downing Street’s reshuffle sees Symonds’ grip tighten

We hope that Finn, Newman and the rest of the new appointees provide a fresh sense of direction and purpose.

The Good Union

The Union needs a cultural case to walk in step with the material one – Project Love, not Project Fear. Which means looking to the future.

Garvan Walshe: Navalny’s given Putin a splitting headache. Here’s how to make it worse.

The prominence of Russians in the UK means that the UK can play an outside role in making the migraine even worse.

David Davis: We must vote today to bar our spies from inflicting torture and our police from deploying children

I urge my colleagues to support amendments which would curtail the use of children and establish sensible limits on agents committing crimes.

Profile: Ben Wallace, one of Johnson’s Long Marchers, and a traditional but also irreverent Defence Secretary

Here is a politician educated at Sandhurst and on active service with the Scots Guards in Northern Ireland, not by reading PPE at Oxford.

We wish the new President all the best as he starts but fear that his term won’t end well

It would take a political genius of Mount Rushmore proportions to restore civic peace to America and Biden, for all his good qualities, isn’t one.