Mark Lehain: Two-thirds of adults are concerned about political correctness. That’s why I’ve started the Campaign for Common Sense.

Groupthink and blame culture have had a detrimental effect on our debates. It’s time we stopped walking on eggshells.

Maria Chaplia: Illiberal regimes are exploiting the pandemic to attack the foundations of democracy

In the name of cracking down on ‘disinformation’ and controlling infection, governments are centralising power and silencing critics.

Imran Ahmad Khan: We musn’t and won’t let this rolling forward of the state become permanent

It represents an emergency call to arms – not a permanent transition towards a command society.

Profile: Munira Mirza, the Muslim from Oldham who leads Johnson’s Policy Unit

The Prime Minister is being urged to employ more women, but here is one who already makes it difficult for him to get away with sloppy thinking.

Labour are fools to pick a fight with Phillips

He has claimed that the campaign against him is a political tactic – to distract from Labour’s record on anti-semitism.

Free speech is in crisis at universities. Just ask Rudd.

Students are the next round of lawyers, politicians and other key decision-makers. That’s why we must tackle their censorious ways.

Peter Ainsworth: The truth is that universities do not offer value for money

A large part of the financial return to the average student arises out of the loss the government makes on student loans.

Local elections 2) The Conservatives can hope to gain more Police and Crime Commissioners

The start of a weekly series on this site each Monday previewing the local elections being held on May 7th.

Rebecca Lowe: The Right cannot afford to duck the debate about trans, sex and gender

My lawyer friend Victoria Hewson and I have launched a small, non-funded campaign called ‘Radical’, aimed at fighting for truth and freedom in this arena.

A victory for free speech. But clear legal safeguards are still needed.

Tightening the definition of a “hate incident” would help. Our new Attorney General has a lot of work to do if public confidence is to be restored.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority 3) Further education and higher education

There are three main issues for us. The HE/FE balance, making all students welcome on campus and the Conservatives’ own internal housekeeping.

Roderick Crawford: Will you really trust Corbyn to control what you can see and do on your mobile and laptop?

Labour’s broadband policy is not about investment in infrastructure, but about a revolution in content to shape our collective political culture.

Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Perhaps Johnson really is the British Trump. And voters like it.

And: Gove says MPs can sit at weekends to get a deal through. Plus: Brisk business at the bookstall – and the menace of the “offence archaeologists”.

‘Words have consequences.’ Unless, it seems, you’re a hardcore Remainer.

What would they say if Brexiteers used the language of coups, Nazis, and spilt blood that has been so prevalent from the pro-EU camp in the last 24 hours?

The Moggcast. The Foreign Secretary’s “personal attacks” on Johnson “make it harder” for him to continue serve in top Cabinet roles.

He also dismisses “this lunatic policeman” who threatened press freedom, and says “if necessary I will read out every word of [Darroch’s cables] in the House of Commons.”