Gabriel Gavin: Conservatives are fighting the wrong battles on immigration

Few people want to stop skilled workers coming to the UK. But many voters understandably want better integration of new arrivals.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: At what point would Remainers give up on the EU – if ever?

Unresolved questions about refugees, debt crises, security, and general financial instability will force these questions on more people, and not just Britons.

Garvan Walshe: The Taylor review is a distraction. The real problem facing Britain is that our Welfare State is bust.

Uncomfortable though it is to admit, we run our public finances like a Ponzi scheme. The only way out of this mess is to improve our terrible productivity.

James Arnell: Johnson is right. Brussels can go whistle for €100 billion.

Are we being manipulated so that we accept, in due course, a smaller (but still very large) Brexit bill as a “good deal”?

Daniel Hannan: Sooner or later, you run out of spending other people’s money. And it’s young people who foot the bill.

The left cries “Growth not austerity”. Seriously, comrades, if it were that easy, don’t you think someone would have done it by now?

Corbyn’s fighting a leadership election, not a General Election

The Labour manifesto isn’t just full of bad ideas, it’s based on dubious or non-existent costings. At least it makes their grassroots happy.

Richard Ritchie: Ten Lenten confessions about Brexit

It is incumbent on all of us who have participated in the EU debate, on both sides, to confess to some sins and omissions.

Julian Glassford: Five ways to keep the boat afloat in a post-liberal dystopian storm

We should take the opportunity to remind ourselves what real progress means and rededicate ourselves to its cause.

Marcus Fysh: The prospects are good for post-Brexit trade

Commentators underestimated our growth potential before the referendum – and some are still doing so.

Garvan Walshe: Trump threatens the security of the Nordic nations

They have the capacity to make a larger contribution to Europe’s defence. They should do so.

WATCH: Ici Londres – The strangest idea in economics is celebrated by Daniel Hannan

Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage is 200 years old, but still often misunderstood.

LISTEN: Razeen Sally on Brexit’s “once in a generation opportunity” to create a truly global Britain

The eminent economist voted Remain, but says he sees “a real opportunity to remake Britain”.

Alex Wild: This should be the last ever Autumn Statement

Having two major fiscal events a year creates uncertainty and tempts Chancellors to pursue gimmicks.

Eamonn Butler: Remembering Milton Friedman, an optimist who changed the world

The engaging, diminutive economist economist died ten years ago today. We still enjoy the fruits of his genius.

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.”