WATCH: Mercer – “We have a duty to these guys as a nation – I’m going to see it through”

The former Veterans Minister discusses support for veterans, his frustrations with politics, Cummings, extremism in the Armed Forces and more.

The Mordaunt affair. If there’s a ban on Ministerial engagement with the MCB, it must be enforced.

Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.

Toby Young: O’Brien is wrong – censorship is never the answer

Our columnist took issue with Lockdown Sceptics in his article yesterday. The Editor of that site replies.

Iain Dale: Stop this utter selfishness and pathetic whinging about not having a normal Christmas to look forward to

Plus: After the kidnapping of this Christian girl, we should cut off aid to Pakistan. And: Muslims must face up the fact that terror is claimed in their name.

Daniel Bruce: Why the new Dfid and Foreign Office team must lead the way in tackling aid corruption

Let’s use ever-increasing intelligence – and stop the flow of dirty money out of poor countries.

Unfit for office. But worse even than Corbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.

Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.

Shabnam Nasimi: The Conservative Manifesto must include measures to grapple with online extremism

Tech companies who don’t clean up their platforms should be prepared to face the force of the law.

Martin Parsons: What is the point of the Commission for Countering Extremism?

Its report focuses on hate speech – which is being weaponised by various groups, including Islamists, intent on censoring public disagreement with their own beliefs.

Daniel Hannan: Why are MPs and commentators fainting like Victorian matrons over the use of the word “humbug”?

The constant mistake of the pro-Brussels Establishment has been to assume that voters – especially Leave voters – are thick.

Dean Godson: There are plenty of ideas on the centre-right. Here’s how it can create a new, decent, patriotric consensus.

Despite polarisation on Brexit, there is more agreement among voters than often appears – and therefore more cause for optimism.

George Freeman: Our new book. In which forty Tory MPs band together to help revive conservatism.

Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.

Robert Halfon: Stop calling Corbyn a Marxist

Instead, the Party must demonstrate how the Labour leader as Prime Minister would raise living costs and damage public service.

The Conservatives and anti-Muslim prejudice. A role for the Extremism Commissioner.

Sara Khan should hold an investigation into racial and religious prejudice among all the main parties.

WATCH: “They are our citizens and we have a responsibility”, Dannatt says of jihadists in Syria

“It’s also important that we treat them fairly…with justice tempered with a bit of mercy.”

Nick Hargrave: In an age of post-truth politics, moderate politicians must prepare to work across party lines

I have reluctantly concluded that there needs to be greater regulation of the veracity of claims made by registered participants in political campaigns.