Profile: Munira Mirza, the Muslim from Oldham who leads Johnson’s Policy Unit

The Prime Minister is being urged to employ more women, but here is one who already makes it difficult for him to get away with sloppy thinking.

The New Normal will be Very Abnormal Indeed. Here are 15 sets of questions about it.

How prepared are we for strict social distancing for the forseeable future, compulsory masks, closed leisure facilities – and a semi-functioning economy?

Anwari Ali: The Government must dissuade vulnerable Muslims from fasting this Ramadan

Those with Chronic Kidney Disease, diabetes and high blood pressure must be protected.

Labour are fools to pick a fight with Phillips

He has claimed that the campaign against him is a political tactic – to distract from Labour’s record on anti-semitism.

Martin Parsons: A US deal with the Taliban would be worse than Obama’s nuclear deal

The only real hope that exists for lasting peace is to strengthen the Afghan government and its institutions, not undermine them.

Daniel Hannan: Identity politics threatens modern civilisation

It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.

David Alton: Now is the time to deliver on Johnson’s commitments to persecuted Christians

It is no secret that some senior civil servants in the Foreign Office do not share the Prime Minister’s commitment to implementing the Truro Recommendations.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority. 1) Muslims

Johnson will be able to call on the advice and views of the Party’s own Muslim MPs, who now include Saqib Bhatti and Imran Ahmad-Khan.

Martin Parsons: The new Prime Minister should implement Hunt’s review on persecuted Christians

The real risk of all this is that it gets praised – but is then quietly filed away. What needs to happen is a change of Foreign Office culture.

Mohammed Amin: I don’t like the term “Islamophobia”. But since we’re stuck with it, here’s my own definition.

I have intentionally used the structure of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism, since it has become an industry standard.

WATCH: Burka comments were “very liberal”. Sunak defends Johnson from allegations of racism.

He adds that the former Foreign Secretary “does have a particular way of communicating, which does seem to work.”

In praise of Conservative Party members

“Spot on” policy questions to Johnson and Hunt in Birmingham yesterday showed Tory activists as they really are.

Fiyaz Mughal: Lewis genuinely cares – but the Party lacks transparency over its anti-Muslim problem. Here’s what it should do.

The final piece of our mini-series about anti-Muslim prejudice – and what the Government and Party should do about it.

Mohammed Amin: How the Conservative Party should fix its Muslim problem

The first in a mini-series of three pieces on this site about anti-Muslim prejudice – and what the Government and Party should do about it.

Garvan Walshe: A lesson from Spain. If a conservative party moves to the right, it fails.

The Partido Popular shifted far enough from the centre to lose votes on its left, while legitimising a competitor to its right.