John Redwood: Why populists reject the establishment – and no longer believe what it tells them

Here in Britain, the two main parties are being punished by voters for tearing up their Brexit commitments.

Three cheers for the Commons for the way it is conducting the necessary argument on Europe

Progressive commentators and saloon-bar orators are wrong to condemn MPs for finding the national issue hard to settle.

Interview. David Owen’s Brexit plan. Move from transition through the EEA into Canada Plus Plus Plus – before the next election.

The former Foreign Secretary says May’s team are inexperienced in EU negotiations and are “pushing out disinformation”.

John Stevens: There is no point in stopping Brexit unless we also join the Euro

Making London a truly global financial centre again, with all that would imply for Britain’s place in the world, could quickly become more attractive than the apathy of decline, however proudly sovereign.

Garvan Walshe: The Italian President is teaching irresponsible populists that “I want never gets”

British commentators who jumped to condemn his decision as a travesty of democracy failed to understand the country’s constitutional traditions.

Mattarella has a point

If Italy really is to make a radical, momentous break with the Euro, sooner or later, voters should explicitly endorse the move.

That Gove-Davidson dream ticket

Readers will see that it is all plain sailing for the plan reportedly being cooked up by “Tory grandees”.

Will Italy’s new government blow the bloody doors off? Don’t get your hopes up. (Or your fears either.)

One day the country’s voters may dig in against the long squeeze imposed on them from northern Europe. But don’t be too sure it will happen yet.

Henry Newman: May is right – the EU cherry-picks whenever it is politically convenient. Brexit should be such a time.

From its range of tailor-made trade deals to its habit of allowing Member States to break the rules, Brussels is more flexible than Barnier’s rhetoric might suggest.

Four questions from the Italian election

Storming results for the Five Star Movement and the League pose big challenges to the established structure of Italian politics, to the EU, and to the left more generally.

There will be no Brexit deal for Soros’s allies to vote against

If anything is put to the Commons at all before exit day, it will be a Heads of Agreement plan. The most likely consequence of its rejection would be the re-invention of transition.

The destruction of German conservatism by Merkel and Kohl

Conventional German politics is still paralysed because being German is still almost impossibly difficult, and being European is pretty difficult, too.

Daniel Kawczynski: After we escape the EU, we must help other countries to protect their sovereignty from Brussels

That means defending NATO from encroachment by an EU army, and supporting Central and Eastern European countries in staying out of the Euro.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson’s column: Why it’s right for Britain to lose its marbles over Brexit

We should prove our commitment to democracy and the individuated nature of nations by promising now to return what Lord Elgin looted.

Merkel is doomed – but will not be replaced soon enough to help Brexit

The German consensus which placed no significant party to the right of the CDU, thus bolstering it as a governing force, is breaking down.