Philippa Stroud: A new department, a new approach? How the revised Foreign Office should recast our aid policy.

Success is most common where donors have focused in terms of the countries with whom they work on a long-term basis.

Stephen O’Brien: The challenge of converting world-class research into British economic success. Here’s an example than works.

We should double down on Product Development Partnerships, which are alive and well in the field of public health.

Roger Gale: Special relationship or coercion? America’s approach to extradition is not the conduct of an ally.

Biden has recently reaffirmed the Trump administration’s refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas.

Nus Ghani: China and genocide. Our new proposal answers Ministers’ objections. So they should support it.

So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?

Garvan Walshe: Navalny’s given Putin a splitting headache. Here’s how to make it worse.

The prominence of Russians in the UK means that the UK can play an outside role in making the migraine even worse.

Paul Mercer: Covid tests, airport checks – and how to avoid British citizens from being stranded abroad

It would make more sense to add a requirement to attach the Covid Test Certificate to the form and enter its details at the same time.

Luke de Pulford: The UK has failed to stand up to China – and Raab must ensure that it does

The UN genocide system is broken and needs a shot in the arm from a country willing to stand and be counted.

David Lidington: We have left the EU and there is no turning back. Here’s what our new relationship with Europe should look like.

Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.

WATCH: ‘I am not worried about Javid taking my job,’ insists Raab

“You have to look at who’s doing the talking up,” says the Foreign Secretary, when asked about rumours regarding a possible Cabinet reshuffle.

WATCH: Raab – ‘We can’t for the moment meet our target of spending 0.7 per cent’ on aid

“Britain is responding to a health emergency, but also an economic emergency, and every penny of public spending will rightly come under intense scrutiny.”

Brave New World

We fear the worst after Cummings’ departure, but Johnson must now make the best of it. That means a Cabinet shuffle.

Anthony Mangnall: How the Prime Minister can make British overseas aid spending more effective

The election of Joe Biden is a chance to re-commit to our humanitarian obligations – and the One Nation caucus has proposals for how to do so.

This hatchet man in a hurry casts no new light on Johnson, except to show him as a vulnerable child

An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.

Ryan Henson and James Rogers: The reformed Foreign Office has a fresh chance to counter China and Russia

It should initiate an “International Prosperity Initiative” – to provide an alternative to the “aid” agendas of authoritarian rivals.

Jude D’Alesio: The Budget must be centred on young people

Lockdown has taken a significant toll on the younger generation, and we need help to make up for lost time.