Ben Roback: The economy, stupid! A bounce back would be Biden’s biggest strength; failure his downfall

If Americans face shortages this holiday season, the hunt for a scapegoat will be on.

Ryan Bourne: It’ll take decades, not years, to determine whether Brexit was a success

Leavers and Remainers have been premature to judge this major constitutional change.

Interview with Tobias Ellwood: Johnson lacks “serious expertise, people with political acumen, over in the Number 10 machine”

The row over the Northern Ireland Protocol must not be allowed to poison co-operation with our continental partners on defence against Russia.

Ben Roback: COP26 may be the only saving grace for Sleepy Joe’s presidency – in a thoroughly chaotic year

He returns to a deeply divided America, with his popularity on a clear downward trend.

Ben Roback: How Critical Race Theory is haunting Virginia. And could lose the Democrats a contest they should win.

An unexpected victory for the Republicans will be received by Trump as a sign that no state woud be beyond his reach in 2024.

Jon Moynihan and Christopher Howarth: Now Truss should deploy Britain’s Brexit dividend – all the way from aid to trade

Anti-corruption and cementing new treaties should take precedence over softer fashionable favourites.

John Redwood: Our energy policy should start with keeping the lights on and the factories powered up

The Business Secretary needs to review the mesh of subsidies, regulations, penalty taxes and import arrangements that passes for an energy policy.

AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific. A tilt to it, yes. A lunge, no.

Putin’s Russia is closer to home – remember the Salisbury attack – and Islamist extremism is already here.

David Richards: Offer a single point of contact and overhaul the National Security Council. How to help the Afghans we left behind.

It would seem to compound an injustice to invite these Afghans to join the back of the queue for resettlement assistance.

Ben Roback: Biden’s Afghan pull-out represents the rash decision-making we had expected from Trump

‘Sleepy Joe’ has sleep-walked the United States into its biggest foreign policy debacle for a generation.

Alan Duncan: The recently-rehashed Foreign Office is facing an identity crisis

Its development reputation has been tarnished, and nobody is able to define quite what the UK’s foreign policy actually is.

Afghanistan and America 1) Why British security policy is dangerously exposed

Can we really afford to get on the front foot against Russia and China at once as the United States trends towards isolationism?

WATCH: Darroch – “I think that Trump is dangling… the possibility that he’ll run again in 2024”

The former UK ambassador to the US believes there’s a prospect Trump will return, even though he’ll be “78 by that stage”.

Bim Afolami: Five books to read over the summer recess

Reading and reflection really helps me get a perspective on what is going on, whether in my own constituency or in the country more broadly.

Ben Roback: Is freedom from vaccines worth dying for?

The United States has little choice but to recognise that vaccination is the only way out of this Covid-19 nightmare.