An open letter to Sajid Javid

Here are five priorities. Sort out the extremism mess. Get an immigration policy move-on. Beef up your Windrush review. Don’t mess with ID cards. Or identity politics. Oh, and P.S…

As May squares up to one security challenge, Cameron reminds us of another: Islamist extremism – and its wider dimensions.

In Washington, the former Prime Minister ponders how his approach to tackling non-violent as well as violent extremism can be built on.

Garvan Walshe: The protests in Iran show the regime is running out of time

A combination of repression and culture war sustained the current system in recent years. But the effectiveness of that approach is wearing off.

Daniel Hannan: Islam has its own, indigenous, free-market tradition

Nasserism, Ba’athism and Arab Socialism, not capitalism, are the colonial impositions on the Arab world.

Garvan Walshe: Anti-semitism returns to Sweden

The old hatred has been ushered in by a toxic mix of Islamism, anti-immigrant populism and far-leftism. Liberalism must fight back.

Richard Risby: How Algeria has fought back against Islamist extremism

After a brutal civil war, a national de-radicalisation and reconciliation programme has made great progress.

Robert Buckland: “We must speak the language of opportunity”. His lecture on Tory revival. Full text.

“The language should be that of giving people their chance to succeed and of being on their side – a “people politics” that many practice locally but which must be scaled up.”

Abdellatif el-Menawy: Islamists won’t like the Government’s tougher stance towards the Muslim Brotherhood. But Egyptians will.

Alistair Burt’s remarks while visiting our country represented a significant adjustment of the British approach to combatting terrorism.

David Cameron: No-one has the right to opt out of the fight against Islamist extremism

We should accept no excuses, nor indulge in any illusions – we are facing a barbaric, medieval death cult.

John Jenkins: The Government must rethink its policy of engagement with Islamists

I can’t find a single example of this policy successfully moderating such an organisation, but plenty of it distorting Western policy.

Bruce Newsome: Law enforcement, not community engagement, is the way to stop extremists becoming terrorists

Instead of seeking yet more powers, the Government should use those already at its disposal to nip extremism in the bud.

The horn of Satan

Can Britain find a way through the horrible tangle of our commercial relationship with and security dependence on Saudi Arabia?

Alex Morton: We cannot be neutral in Islam’s internal struggle. Here are three ways in which the Prime Minister should act.

When I worked in Number Ten, the people who grasped most clearly this ideology’s threat were my Muslim co-workers.

Recently, May said “Enough is enough”. Yesterday, terrorist flags were brandished in London. She lacks credibility.

The Prime Minister cannot expect to be taken seriously if she lets supporters of Hezbollah openly boss London’s streets.

Sean O’Callaghan: Puffed-up, bewildered, pampered second-raters. The elites that nearly let an extremist into Downing Street.

There is only one priority: keep the Stalinists, trots, Islamist fellow-travellers, gender and feminist lunatics and, yes, the young deluded idealists out of power.