Richard Ritchie: What the great Commons debates on devolution can teach today’s unionists

Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.

James Heywood: Johnson – “Brexity Hezza” or liberalising Thatcherite? Our new report sets out how he can be both.

At the Centre for Policy Studies, we’ve teamed up with Sajid Javid to come up with a comprehensive set of ideas for tackling the challenges ahead.

Henry Hill: New polling shows Welsh devoscepticism is no longer a fringe interest

The proposition is backed by more than a third of those prepared to say how they’d vote – including an overwhelming majority of Tories.

Europe 2.0? How divisions over devolution could stall the Tories’ march on Cardiff

The Party is keen to keep a lid on the issue ahead of next year’s Welsh elections, but disaffected activists and challenger parties are putting it on the agenda.

Christopher Harries: We Welsh Tories must be a bulwark against devocrat demands for ‘more powers’

Ahead of next year’s elections, we have to show our sceptical voters that we’re not just another horse on the Cardiff Bay carousel.

Fay Jones: Welsh voters deserve better than the First Minister’s synthetic outrage and pointless one-upmanship

I won’t let fears of being branded ‘anti-devolution’ stop me calling out Drakeford’s deeply counterproductive conduct.

Henry Hill: As predicted, the ‘four nations’ approach to Covid-19 is falling apart

Also: Kawczynski clashes with colleagues over the future of Welsh devolution; Government capitulates on an Irish Sea border; and more.

Sturgeon, Wales, the shutdown row – and why a Four Nations policy is no substitute for a One Nation policy

The unique circumstances of the pandemic temporarily forged a common response, but cracks are already appearing and will only deepen.

WATCH: ‘We would like the whole of the UK to move as one’, says Jenrick

Scotland and Wales have both declined to adopt the Government’s new ‘Stay Alert’ formulation, raising the prospect of a rift in approach.

Henry Hill: Will devolution force us to exit lockdown at the speed of the slowest?

In order to maintain a UK-wide approach, the infrastructure for a ‘test, trace, and track’ strategy has to be in place across the board at the same time.

Henry Hill: Ministers might face a tricky task finding a one-nation route to easing lockdown

It may prove easier to maintain coordination when imposing the rules than easing them, especially if regional variegation is called for.

Matthew Evans: Devolution has caused confusion during this crisis

The biggest bone of contention is that parks are closed in Newport – despite the advice in England that they should stay open.

Henry Hill: Scottish Conservatives put the spotlight on Covid-19’s constitutional consequences

Also: Welsh Labour demand less alignment with London on coronavirus policy; and Sinn Fein isolated in objecting to Army support in Northern Ireland.

Henry Hill: Labour’s new leader sets the party against Scottish independence… but toward federalist folly

By taking refuge once again in his party’s only idea, Starmer puts himself behind even Gordon Brown in his constitutional thinking.

Henry Hill: Anger grows as devolution hinders coordinated response to the Covid-19 crisis

Also: Opposition parties force the SNP to abandon a bid to suspend trial by jury; and more good reading on the fallout from Alex Salmond’s acquittal.