Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe

The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.

Jasvinder Sanghera: The new Northern Ireland rules that set a dangerous precedent on sex-selective abortion for the whole UK

These proposed changes suggest that Ministers’ resolve to address this type of abortion is weakening and, in Northern Ireland, evaporating.

Shanker Singham: As Johnson prepares to talk to Von der Leyen, here’s how to end the row over the Northern Ireland protocol

Like it or not, the EU agreed to two customs territories on the island of Ireland – and a solution to the disagreement flows from that fact.

May needs a new offer to make to the EU. Paul Bew has one for her. She should take it up.

He advised the man who co-won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Belfast Agreement – and argues that the backstop breaches it.

The arguments for and against Brexit are presented with an insulting show of certainty

Europe has no Madisons to make the case for federalism, while the Leavers patronise us by pretending that leaving is without risk.

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

WATCH: Ici Londres – If statue-smashers don’t like English-speaking civilisation, what would they prefer? asks Daniel Hannan

This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.

WATCH: Nadhim Zahawi – “For the first time in my life I feel discriminated against”

The Stratford MP and ConservativeHome columnist is now banned from visiting his sons at Princeton, despite being a British citizen.

Daniel Hannan: We will get a good deal – because rational self-interest will overcome the Eurocrats’ fury

While Tusk and Barnier fume, the member states sound rather more emollient.

Daniel Hannan: How Britain lost Ireland

A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.

Cameron’s speech to the Scottish Conservative Conference: full text

“We need to tell voters that we’re the party that can challenge the SNP – now the only party that can challenge the SNP.”

Lord Ashcroft: What my research found German and French people think about Britain and the EU

“The Brits would be happier outside. But we don’t want them to leave.”

Rebecca Coulson: On being English, sorry, British.

I love it. I think. Here is why.