Alistair Lexden: How the 1918 election paved the way to inter-war Conservative hegemony

Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.

Terry Barnes: From the Anglosphere, we watch with horror as Britain bungles its Brexit chance to go global

British politicians are negotiating as if it were 410 AD, and still the Roman province of Britannia, asking permission to leave instead of flourishing a mandate to do so.

Bill Cash: The EU Withdrawal Bill. No Conservative colleague should defy the will of the people next week.

The referendum transferred from MPs themselves the decision as to whether to remain in or leave the EU and – with it, to regain our freedom to make our own laws.

Peter Marshall: A hard truth after the Commonwealth summit. There’s no institutional awareness of its importance.

I have lost count of the number of times I have heard its demise confidently predicted or stridently recommended. Houdini-like, it has so far escaped this awaited fate.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

WATCH: Fallon commemorates the Passchendaele centenary

“Although the sacrifice was enormous, it was fought in a good cause…to defend the freedom that we enjoy today.”

George Maggs: Brexit, our Commonwealth friends – and a chance to discover the deepest sense of our national interest

Our real interests derive from forging understandings and ties with countries which have traditionally considered themselves British in all but name.

“NATO – the cornerstone of the West’s defence”. The Prime Minister’s speech to the Republican Party Congress: full text

“Let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.”

Alistair Lexden: One hundred years on from the Somme

The political fallout from this bloody battle of attrition did more to enhance British prospects of victory than the actual fighting.

Lord Ashcroft: Why I feel so privileged to take possession of the first Victoria Cross awarded to a Muslim

Subadar Khudadad Khan was one of the 400,000 Muslims who volunteered to serve the Empire during the First World War.

Eamonn Butler: Brexit. Worse than the Great Depression? Really? Osborne is treating us like fools.

How can the Chancellor keep a straight face while spouting this nonsense?

Daniel Hannan: How Britain lost Ireland

A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.

Avaes Mohammad: Commemorating the Muslim soldiers of World War One in the capital of English Islam

The service and sacrifice of a century ago has much to teach us today.

Alistair Burt MP: A Christmas football lesson from the First World War for the modern game

And on 1st July 1916, men who went over the top on that first morning of the battle of the Somme kicked their precious footballs before them.

Rebecca Coulson: The poppy – charitable, respectful and a reminder of the state’s primary duty

As our protectors fought for us a century ago, so their descendants defend us today.