Will Italy’s new government blow the bloody doors off? Don’t get your hopes up. (Or your fears either.)

One day the country’s voters may dig in against the long squeeze imposed on them from northern Europe. But don’t be too sure it will happen yet.

J Meirion Thomas: If we are to stop losing our best doctors, we must keep training and retraining them

Some specialist hospitals have made stellar consultant appointments from abroad. However, many doctors relocating here are economic migrants.

The withdrawal of public funds is the best thing that could happen to Oxfam

Taxpayers’ money has sapped the independence, and the moral responsibility, of our great charities.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson’s column: Why it’s right for Britain to lose its marbles over Brexit

We should prove our commitment to democracy and the individuated nature of nations by promising now to return what Lord Elgin looted.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why Brexit, politics – and everything else – can’t just be about economics

A weakness in this book is that its support for nation states is predicated on disappointed economic necessity.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: At what point would Remainers give up on the EU – if ever?

Unresolved questions about refugees, debt crises, security, and general financial instability will force these questions on more people, and not just Britons.

Tim Loughton: Brexit can make it safer and easier for refugee children to rejoin their families

I voted Leave because I felt it would present chances to do things better. This is just such a chance.

Syed Kamall: The European Conservatives and Reformists should thrive post-Brexit

After we leave the EU, Tories should take care to maintain the alliances we have built with like-minded politicians on the continent.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn does May a good turn

By forcing the Prime Minister to talk about Economics for Beginners, the Leader of the Opposition has pushed her onto favourable ground.

Carswell. Energetic, honest – and with no idea of how the world actually works

Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.

The Brexit negotiation – and why the importance of tariff-free trade has been over-hyped

The Government must try to build from the essentials out – security, legal certainty, frictionless trade. Zero tariffs would be the icing on the cake.

Iain Duncan Smith: The EU does not speak with one voice – it is increasingly divided

With growing problems at home, many member states are at odds with the Commission’s punitive line on Brexit.

Richard Black: Now is the time for the UK to lead NATO

We should not only meet our spending minimum, but exceed it in order to maximise our vital strategic and tactical needs.

Nicky Morgan: Just what does the way in which we’re dealing with refugee children say about our values as a Party?

As a party known for strong economic management, we must work doubly hard to avoid appearing to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Cooper’s anger over unaccompanied child refugees should be targeted at Paris, Rome and Athens, not the Home Office

If we prioritise rescuing children from the incompetence of EU governments, that means children can be rescued from the slaughter of the Middle East.