Stephen Bates: How to reduce our scandalous waste of food

Let’s have each local store publish its waste levels to help consumers choose where to shop. And let’s have food manufacturers publish their waste levels too.

Peter Franklin: Why is the right so sweet on sugar?

This is not so much a pro-market position as an anti-democratic one. There is more to politics than market versus state.

Zac Goldsmith: The Agriculture Bill is a chance to help farming thrive and restore the environment

We must replace the EU’s clunky and inflexible CAP with a system that rewards public goods, not box-ticking.

LISTEN: Lidington insists the UK will be able to pursue a US trade deal post-Brexit

“We will have the choice. We’ll have our own seat at the World Trade Organisation, our own voice there.

Iain Dale: Madeley thinks he got the better of Williamson. I beg to differ.

Plus: A crazy clergyman, a bonkers Imam, and unreason on obesity. Richard Holden’s innocence. And: I am ready for Desert Island Dicks.

Rebecca Pow: I’m proud to have been granted an award for being the greenest new MP

I took part in the first ever debate held in Parliament on soil. Solar panels line my office roof. Also I use a Somerset wicker basket instead of plastic bags.

Iain Dale: The week in which I managed to offend Jews and Muslims at the same time

Plus: Brexodus, what Brexodus. The Gay Hussar improves. James Cleverly impresses. And: join Liam Halligan, Ayesha Hazarika and I on CNN Talk.

Albie Amankona: We need a real National Health Service – to make healthy living easy and unhealthy living difficult.

There needs to be a paradigm shift in policy and culture. Our state should work to keep us healthy and allow us as individuals to be responsible for our actions.

‘Partial’ customs union means paying a high price to be stuck in EU limbo

But a vote on some form of customs union is coming. Might it become a confidence issue?

Charlie Elphicke: How to ensure the UK is ready to become a powerhouse of global trade

First we must ensure that we fully regain control of trade policy from Brussels. Then we must ensure we put those new powers to their fullest use.

Thomas Hogg: How technology can revolutionise policy-making

From healthcare and education to food and transport, privately-developed solutions can help ministers make a big difference at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

Terence Kealey: Ministers must not fall for myth-making around school breakfast clubs

They don’t alleviate hunger. It’s mainly middle-class children whose scores improve. And the benefits flow from the socialising, not the food.

Julian Sturdy: To give farmers a fair deal, the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator should be extended

The current situation is not sustainable, and undermines competition and business development in the food sector to the detriment of both consumers and producers.

Daniel Hannan: Prejudice against fat people is a snobbery of the Left

The underlying motive for this tradition, though now often dressed up in quasi-medical language, is as much aesthetic as sanitary.

Tom Clarke: More productive, competitive and profitable farming would enhance our food security

Subsidies, tariffs or lowering standards are not the answer. There is a conservative solution.