Bernard Jenkin: Keeping or junking the shutdown won’t work. But the alternative requires a transformation unparalleled since the war.

Parliament’s role must be to encourage strategic thinking, raise reasonable questions and help the government avoid strategic errors.

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.

Jo Johnson moves to open up a closed University system

The free marketeers don’t like all his proposals, and quotas would lower standards. But many of his plans head in the right direction.