How Johnson keeps out Zemmour

But beware, Prime Minister: there is no divine right of parties any more than there was a divine right of kings.

Interview with Tobias Ellwood: Johnson lacks “serious expertise, people with political acumen, over in the Number 10 machine”

The row over the Northern Ireland Protocol must not be allowed to poison co-operation with our continental partners on defence against Russia.

Emily Carver: The individual no longer seems to count in our identity-obsessed society

A new report into the NHS workforce uses immutable characteristics to decide how well employees should be doing at work.

Orban v Brussels – and the rights of the nation state v the fundamentals of liberal democracy

The country’s Prime Minister is a classic cakeist – berating the EU on the one hand, but not seeking to leave on the other.

Chris Newton: The Government’s Free Speech Bill won’t fix universities if viewpoint diversity isn’t addressed too

Zahawi, the new Education Secretary, should consider whether the bill as it stands is a sticking plaster.

Rehman Chishti: How mainstream Islamic teaching can help to hold the Taliban to account

The Government can help to ensure that one of the faith’s leading authorities publicly stresses the rights of religious minorities and women.

Leadbeater’s first test: will she rebuke Shah’s call to criminalise cartoons of Mohammed?

With a Batley teacher still in hiding, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion equates drawings with public vandalism.

Husain warns in his new book that British Muslims lead increasingly separate lives

In the large Muslim communities in such towns as Dewsbury, Blackburn and Bradford, integration is not taking place.

Should Conservatives want Labour to win the Batley and Spen by-election?

Galloway is furthering a dangerous communalism – by dragging conflicts overseas towards the centre of domestic political discourse. 

Sarah Ingham: After the Batley protests and on this Easter Saturday, a case for tolerating religious belief

In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.

Why was there no reference to Islamist extremism in Johnson’s terror speech?

Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.

Edward Leigh: If Pakistan won’t crack down on the kidnapping of young girls, we should cut off aid

The country is the biggest recipient of British overseas support. We have a duty to use our influence to curb these barbaric practices.

James Somerville-Meikle: Religious services are essential for many people; the Government must not stop them again.

Furthermore, there have been huge efforts at places of worship to stop the spread of the virus.

Iain Dale: Stop this utter selfishness and pathetic whinging about not having a normal Christmas to look forward to

Plus: After the kidnapping of this Christian girl, we should cut off aid to Pakistan. And: Muslims must face up the fact that terror is claimed in their name.

Garvan Walshe: Macron is running out of time in which to prevail against the far left, far right – and Islamist extremism

After the beheading of Samuel Paty, there are huge questions for the president as to how he can prevent such an atrocious crime again.