Daniel Hannan: Political clickbait is Fleet Street’s addiction, and the nation’s problem

The trend fuels harmful misrepresentations and myths. It might bring in ad revenue, but it harms the fabric of our democracy.

Ros Beck: Cronyism is not capitalism

Free market competition has delivered a huge boost in incomes – including to the poorest on the planet. Championing it must be a core Conservative value.

Iain Dale: Lewis didn’t deliberately break a pairing arrangement this week

Plus: Those who worked with him at Vote Leave have a duty of care to Darren Grimes. And: Don’t try to out-stare Raab.

Iain Mansfield: Five tests for a good Brexit deal

The attempt by some Remainers to frame the negotiation as ‘how can we achieve the closest possible relationship with the EU?’ is disingenuous, and should be strongly rebutted.

Victoria Hewson: How we should prepare to leave the Customs Union

These steps will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the UK’s international trade, whatever the outcome of the Article 50 negotiations.

Robert Colvile: Our drive at the Centre for Policy Studies for new ideas for ownership

Our New Generation programme will be tasked with producing policies in areas that are of pressing concern to voters: tax, enterprise, housing, welfare.

Julian Jessop: It’s the markets, not government, that can tame the tech giants

Indeed, the EU’s digital tax is a good example of a well-intentioned measure that makes little sense. Revenue taxes are also more likely to be passed on to consumers.

Round-up of reaction to the Spring Statement

How have think-tanks, business organisations and campaign groups responded to the Chancellor’s fiscal and economic news?

Steve Davies: Banning touts would not fix the ticket market

Moves to curb or ban resale would replace it with lotteries and black marketeers without even solving the fundamental problems in the market.

Madeline Grant: Why Giles Coren is wrong to think we have nothing to learn from Austen

Her novels are an insight into the financial and social realities of Georgian and Regency England, and how women navigated them.

Diego Zuluaga: It’s time to let London black cabs set their own rules

Scaling back expensive regulation would allow the cabbies to make the most of their comparative advantages such as the Knowledge and their iconic status.

Think-tanks react to the Budget. Some praise, more criticism…and a sense that the housing announcements didn’t go nearly far enough

“The government should be completely overhauling current restrictions and liberalising our planning system to free up land for houses to be built.”

Terence Kealey: Ministers must not fall for myth-making around school breakfast clubs

They don’t alleviate hunger. It’s mainly middle-class children whose scores improve. And the benefits flow from the socialising, not the food.

Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: The attempt to bribe Fox with a lifetime’s supply of free sugar

Plus: Johnson’s cunning plan. Crisis? What crisis? Paterson breaks into German. And when Green was chucked over a bridge.

Philip Booth: It’s too soon to write off Britain’s newly competitive university system

Right-wing critics of the higher education sector have not given recent reforms a chance to take effect.