Football – and taking a knee. If the boos and cheers get louder, Johnson and Dowden will need a plan.

Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?

Emily Carver: Some believe that as a white person, I shouldn’t express a view on Black Lives Matter. But I should and will.

There is a vocal minority of people who dominate discussions in the media, and seem determined to import the racially-charged culture we see in the US.

We wish the new President all the best as he starts but fear that his term won’t end well

It would take a political genius of Mount Rushmore proportions to restore civic peace to America and Biden, for all his good qualities, isn’t one.

Albie Amankona: It’s time for a Conservative approach to anti-racism

We have always been champions of justice and we must double-down on fighting inequality through classical liberal principles.

Conservatives can’t be neutral about culture

Clashes over Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion are noisy, nasty – and, by definition, impossible for Johnson to keep out of.

Ed West: So far, 2020 has proved my most pessimistic expectations to be horribly true. How very satisfying.

There’s nothing better than being proven right, even if it’s to confirm your original prediction of doom-laden misery.

Julie Newcombe: Hancock must aid the pandemic’s forgotten victims. The hundreds of autistic people detained in secure units.

Is the sequestering, incarceration and forgetting of these vulnerable children and young adults any better than in Georgian and Victorian times?

Ben Roback: Why America’s election may turn on jobs, immigration, abortion and China – not race, policing, justice and riots

Trump has shown a rare flash of flexibility in signing a police reform executive order, breaking a hitherto narrow commitment to law enforcement.

Maurisa Coleman: Why I, as a black Briton, am appalled by the Left’s gesture politics

We need to be proactive, and champion those universal values that we all share. And BAME conservatives need to be articulating and leading it.

What Sunak said about racism and riots. And what he didn’t say.

It’s striking that three Tory ethnic minority Ministers – first Badenoch; then Patel, and now Sunak – have sounded clearer-headed than some of their colleagues.

Samuel Williams: Taking the knee is an expression of evolution – of showing compassion, even if it comes at a cost to ourselves

But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.

Race and justice – not just a black and white issue

As a rule, the Conservatives are unclear about the politics of equality and identity. But there’s at least one Minister who isn’t.