Daniel Hannan: How the EU must wish it had accepted May’s Chequers offer

The truth is that Eurocrats see Britain as a rule-taking dependent, like Macedonia or Ukraine, rather than as a wholly independent nation.

Bob Seely: In the Gulf, we are paying the price for starving defence of funding for so long

As well as a response to the immediate crisis, we need to start planning ahead properly and routinely.

The Khashoggi case shows that the UK’s alliance with Saudi Arabia serves neither our interests nor our values

For how much longer can Ministers continue to try to defend a relationship which has become increasingly indefensible?

Daniel Kawczynski: We must back Trump’s withdrawal of support from the Iran deal

Obama and his partners ignored the loudly-voiced concerns of our key Gulf strategic partners and Israel that the deal ignored potential Iranian interference in the region.

Leo Docherty: The radical Saudi reformer, now in the driving seat, who visits Britain this week

The Crown Prince will need all of his skills to balance the demands of tribal court politics while driving social and economic modernisation.

Stephen Hammond: Why I will be tabling amendments to the Trade Bill to explore joining EFTA

To shut off consideration of realistic and achievable ways of supporting the Government’s Brexit objectives would be irresponsible.

Liam Fox: In this new year, let’s resolve to capitalise on the huge trade and investment opportunities of Brexit

The pessimism of some at home is contradicted by the successes of British businesses, and the rising interest in the UK that I see around the world.

Marc Morrison: Corbyn is dangerously mistaken – abandoning the Middle East will make us less safe

The savage attacks we have witnessed must drive us to work more closely with our regional allies.

May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text

“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”

David Davis: What I saw in Syria. And what Britain should do to help end its barbarous civil war – in its own interest, ours, and the world’s

This is better way of dealing with both migration and the terror threat than the patchwork measures taken so far by the EU.