Patrick Timms: A residential version of Portcullis House could help the civil service recruit better – and level up the UK

The State might be missing out on top talent, thanks to the obstacles that renting in London presents.

Profile: Penny Mordaunt. Ambitious, socially liberal, sacked, then rehabilitated, restive, military-flavoured – and on manoeuvres.

In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.

Alistair Lexden: We should have listened to “the great Lord Salisbury” on reform of the upper house

He proposed a limit was placed on the number of life peers that could be created. Much criticism of the House of Lords could have been spared.

The suicide of Rose Paterson, and what her husband, Owen Paterson, is doing to prevent more self-killings

“How on earth didn’t I notice?” he said – and that question is near the heart of the charity that he and his family have set up, the Rose Paterson Trust.

Arminka Helic: Training on domestic abuse should be mandatory for judges hearing cases involving it. MPs can make this happen.

The family courts’ approach to domestic abuse remains much the same as twenty years ago, and the system is stacked against survivors.

Aamer Sarfraz: Other countries have started work on their digital currencies. It’s time the UK got going too.

A digital pound, backed by the Bank of England, could be a major win for individuals and businesses.

Guy Black and Alistair Lexden: Why Alderdice is the outstanding candidate to be the next Lord Speaker

The challenges facing the Upper House are immense, but he has the character and the experience to steer us through them.

A prince’s passing is a chance to reflect on why we’re royalists

Constitutionally, socially, and symbolically, the monarchy is an institution that binds us together in ways no presidency could.

Austen Morgan: Is Buckland letting the judges set the pace on reform?

A contest exists between traditional common lawyers, who believe the constitution exists (in their minds), and modernisers including myself.

Buckland gears up for a stealth raid on judicial power – and the Labour legacy that boosted it

The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.

Johnson believes in gender equality (but is putting more men than women in the House of Lords)

In the wake of International Women’s Day, the third article in a five-piece series on ConservativeHome this week.

Radical: Despite lockdown, the gender wars rage on. Here’s our round up of the biggest issues of the week.

One of the most striking developments was Mordaunt criticising the use of the word ‘woman’ in the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill.

Daniel Hannan: The China genocide amendment. Trade sanctions punish the innocent – and make fortunes for oppressive regimes

Though micro-measures aimed at those responsible might work: travel bans, asset seizures, arrest warrants.

Nus Ghani: China and genocide. Our new proposal answers Ministers’ objections. So they should support it.

So the only question that remains, given this new compromise plan, is: what’s the Government’s objection now?

100,000 dead

It’s a terrible milestone and Ministers throughout the UK will be blamed. How could our governments and administrations do better next time?