Daniel Hannan: We will get a good deal – because rational self-interest will overcome the Eurocrats’ fury

While Tusk and Barnier fume, the member states sound rather more emollient.

Rebecca Coulson: Beware wanting to surrender democracy. For once you’ve done so, you may not get it back.

Only in a place or time where you hadn’t witnessed the effects on people of a lack of choice might you be willing to countenance it yourself.

Iain Duncan Smith: Britain last June. America last month. Now Italy. Next, Germany? France? Holland? Revolt against the elites is sweeping the West.

Are we seeing a convulsion as great as 1968 – or even 1848?

Andrew Kennedy: Home lessons in why democracy matters from Latin America

I hope that in the electoral battle that lies ahead ahead, a fresh-faced volunteer will stand on the streets of Quito, and pose questions in a refined Liverpool accent.

There are plenty of problems with a “transitional” EU arrangement – but immigration is by far the greatest

Not only do such deals routinely end up permanent, but striking one would require continued loss of control over our borders.

Castro lost – but democracy isn’t winning

Despite progress in some countries, fewer are free than 20 years ago. Does Trump have a practicable plan – or any at all – to help turn the tables worldwide?

Rebecca Coulson: Does voting Trump mean that you must be racist and sexist?

Perhaps the 60 million Americans who backed him simply thought other factors were more important. But is that judgement bigoted in itself?

WATCH: Free trade is a moral force, argues Daniel Hannan

“There is no force on earth that brings people together like the voluntary exchange of goods and services.”

James Frayne: This is what happens when those making political decisions lose touch with the lower middle class

The political class must respond to revolutionaries’ demands or face further defeats.

Rebecca Coulson: America. Vast cars, vast variety and a vastly complex verdict.

It’s easy, even comforting, to stick a simple narrative onto the election result. But it would be a mistake.

Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: Why we have to leave the Single Market and the Customs Union

If we want to control our laws, our economy and our trade agreements, we cannot stay in either arrangement.

Rebecca Coulson: Populism may be popular, but it’s not practicable

The only way to reconcile our different political desires peacefully is through the compromises inherent in representative democracy.

A victory for justice. The Government will bring in “votes for life” for British citizens abroad

The 5.6 million of our fellow countrymen living overseas are a huge source of “soft power” – we should not be insulting them.

The Vaz scandal is another case in which recall would prove useful

Either he would be turfed out of Parliament, or his constituents would shrug and say “So what?”

Ziya Meral: Imagine if the Turkish coup had been attempted in the UK

We would need help and support restructuring our civil service and our military. London should offer Ankara that assistance.