Iain Dale: On my radio show, I asked Salmond who he would side with out of Putin or Biden. Can you guess his answer?

Plus: I’ve been around the political lobbying world for 30 years, but the Greensill scandal has genuinely floored me.

Philip Mitchell and Chris Goddard: We need game-changing strategies to meet the challenge of China

Only the US can take the People’s Republic head-on, but Britain can play a vital diplomatic role in defending Western values.

Garvan Walshe: Russia’s building up troops on Ukraine’s border. Here’s what we can do to stymie Putin.

Britain can convene a coalition of countries, including Poland, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and the Baltic states, possibly with Ukraine in association.

Radical: The ideology of gender identity has been adopted at UK prisons, putting biological women at serious risk

Biologically male offenders who have a gender recognition certificate are being automatically housed in the women’s prison estate.

Stephen Booth: Merkel’s departure is Macron’s opportunity – an opening for his dreams of an even closer Union

And if Germany’s Greens are in government after the federal election, they will be inclined to help him.

Ben Roback: Biden can continue to expand the state – now that Republicans are too distracted by the culture wars

Biden wants to act quickly and boldly while his party has unified control of Congress, knowing full well that could change next year.

Neil O’Brien: I can laugh off China sanctioning me, but we can’t shrug off the threat it poses

The UK and governments across the west have started to act.  But we’re still just starting to figure out how to respond.

Tim Loughton: So – no Wuhan holiday home for me. Yes, I’ve been sanctioned by China. But it won’t stop me speaking out.

My four fellow Conservative MPs are more determined than ever to make sure the country’s regime faces serious consequences for its atrocities and abuses.

Ben Roback: After Biden’s stumble on the steps, Harris’ stroll to the White House?

The President’s age and fall together shines an spotlight onto the woman who would assume the presidency were he to vacate it.

Free speech and the culture wars. It’s Fox to the rescue.

He gave a brave speech to the Adam Smith Institute on some of the most contentious issues of our time.

Garvan Walshe: The Integrated Review’s tilt to Asia could leave us vulnerable closer to home – and Putin

The impulse of Brexit is to prove Britain’s openness by striking out, but this tilt increases our security dependence on Europe.

Iain Dale: Biden seems to forget his Defense Secretary’s name, and the media says nothing. Imagine if it had happened to Trump.

Plus: Piers Morgan wasn’t ‘cancelled’. And: We need a conversation on women’s safety.

If the EU is as committed to the Belfast Agreement as it claims to be, here’s what it will do, sooner or later

If strict East-West checks and North-South checks are problematic, the only solution left standing is to minimise the former by rewriting the Protocol.

Ben Roback: Vaccination in America – a research and manufacturing triumph. Now for the next challenge: getting needles into arms

Some of this success was crafted under Trump’s presidency, and he now holds the key to better protecting his country.

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.