Iain Dale: May has recovered her position

Plus: investment increasing, Heseltine declining. Listen to Farage – especially if you disagree with him. And: Activate sounds like dermatological face cream.

Can UnHerd gain Moo-mentum?

Tim Montgomerie’s new project is big, bold, and imaginative. But how will a journal that doesn’t do news get cut-through? And will it really do so?

Iain Dale: How I did not become May’s new Director of Communications

Guido Fawkes, Tom Newton-Dunn and the Evening Standard diary banded together to suggest that I was about to do a far, far better thing than I have ever done…

The leading Conservative pro-Brexit group joins the Government (or rather, its leading lights do)

Riddle-me-ree: are Brexiteers taking over the Ministerial ranks, or are the whips taking over the Brexiteers?

Mother Theresa

At the heart of her speech was not so much a new interventionism as a Church-formed moralism, a sense of public service – and a Good Samaritan Moment.

Boris knocks on history’s door

It’s a big moment.

The Legard inquiry into the Mark Clarke allegations must publish findings

Without a report, closure won’t happen. The claims will simply get bigger and louder.

Iain Dale: It’s scandalous that dozens of people at Transport for London earn over £100,000 a year

Plus: Thither goes Harry Cole – to the Sun. Here comes Tim Montgomerie – on a diet. And: Tracey Crouch, sports mastermind.

Louise Mensch: New blogs I’m following during this election campaign

Campaign Watch, Blue Guerilla, Pestminster and Publicly Inconvenient – as well as established sites such as ConHome, Guido and Coffee House.

From Reggie to Dessie: Cleavages, bald patches – and Colonel Bob of Bosnia fame

Plus: Stephen O’Brien triumphant. What not to wear while canvassing. Commons catering, KFC-style. And: Kensington – that snake-pit of ambitious thrusters.

Iain Dale: I name Labour’s Shadow Cabinet members with business experience. They are…um…er…hang on a minute…

Plus: Rubbish in the Sun. Andy Carroll is out. A mystery Tory is in – with an au pair, at any rate. My controversial book on the NHS. And: Lord Fink is right.

WATCH: Chuka Umunna backs David, er, Ed Miliband

The Shadow Business Secretary’s show of loyalty doesn’t go as planned.

Iain Dale: My date in the dark with Sadiq Khan

Also: Miliband plays with Farage and plays with fire. The unGreen BBC. Jonathan Jones is a twat. Two new Biteback books. Plus: Guido’s Iranian payments to friends of Israel.

From Reggie to Dessie: My encounter with the Conservative Ministerial Women’s Breakfast Club

The next day, I went to deliver leaflets in Rochester. We kept being delayed by Simon Burns insisting on showing passing punters his Hillary Clinton watch.

Iain Dale: The ten years of Guido party. Staines and Cole in charge – but only one was playing Amanda Holden

Plus: The fiendish Guido seating plan. Mike Read is not a racist. And: shame on the six Conservative MEPs who voted for Juncker.