Jonathan Werran: Levelling up. Is Gove poised to mimic his academies programme and bypass local authorities?

The fourth part of a ConHome series this week on Levelling Up as the Government’s White Paper nears publication.

The protests in Europe show why the Government pressed ahead with its ‘big bang’ July reopening

These are two major dangers to indefinite restrictions. One relates to immunity, and the other is around how long people can cope with them.

Europe’s winter coronavirus wave shows the folly of basing bold claims on rapidly-changing data

A given country can’t be the model for how to combat Covid-19 one month and not the next.

John Redwood: How we can get the public – as well as the world’s biggest polluters – on board with the eco revolution

Central to the whole debate is the question of people’s buy in to what the transition means for their own lifestyle.

Russian aggression in Eastern Europe. And a bomb in Liverpool. China isn’t the only threat to our security.

Those who want to project force in the Pacific must explain how it would be consistent with maintaining our strength at home and nearer abroad.

David Willetts: If we’re to have less migration into Britain – and more productivity – we must move around more within it

We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?

Bim Afolami: After the Budget, we won’t deliver levelling up without putting economic growth first

Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.

Forget Covid Plan A or Plan B. Let’s Plan British.

We have a tendency to idolise our European counterparts on Covid strategy. But we should think about our own legacy.

Grant Shapps: Labour’s solution to HGV driver shortages is simplistic and wrong. Here’s what the Government is doing.

Starmer claims that granting visas to European drivers is the answer – even though EU countries are having the same issue.

Howard Flight: It’s time Conservative MPs opposed the Treasury’s spending bandwagon

Politicians and civil servants need to relearn that the route to lower taxes lies in sustained economic growth and discipline on public expenditure.

Garvan Walshe: Germany’s new government may get tougher on Russia and China. Which would suit ours. But there’s a snag.

Ministers must grasp that this new one will be even more disposed to conduct its foreign policy through the EU.

Orban v Brussels – and the rights of the nation state v the fundamentals of liberal democracy

The country’s Prime Minister is a classic cakeist – berating the EU on the one hand, but not seeking to leave on the other.

Jon Moynihan and Christopher Howarth: Now Truss should deploy Britain’s Brexit dividend – all the way from aid to trade

Anti-corruption and cementing new treaties should take precedence over softer fashionable favourites.

John Redwood: Our energy policy should start with keeping the lights on and the factories powered up

The Business Secretary needs to review the mesh of subsidies, regulations, penalty taxes and import arrangements that passes for an energy policy.

AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific. A tilt to it, yes. A lunge, no.

Putin’s Russia is closer to home – remember the Salisbury attack – and Islamist extremism is already here.