Buckland gears up for a stealth raid on judicial power – and the Labour legacy that boosted it

The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.

The red white and blue archipelago: how localism can sustain the Union.

The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.

The China genocide amendment. Our politicians should decide our trade policy – not our judges.

There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.

Yuan Yi Zhu: Good riddance to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act

Repeal will to restore politics – and the electorate – to its rightful place at the core of the United Kingdom’s constitution.

Damian Green: Why a forced choice between a Brexity North and a Globalist South would be a false one – and damage our Party

The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Tim Ambler: How to replace quangos

We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.

Interview: Nigel Biggar says human rights are not enough and the British Empire was good as well as bad

If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.

The Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission pledged in the Conservative Manifesto is being quietly shelved

It was promised “in our first year”. Instead, there will be mini-commissions, and a push to reform a Government bugbear: judicial review.

Why the Government really tripped up over Heathrow

The decision illustrates how previous parliaments have freighted the process of policy-making with an increasingly onerous lattice of ill-defined obligations.

The real question isn’t which airport we build, but how to get better at building anything

If there’s one thing which ought to unite even the most passionate partisans of the different proposals, it’s the abject state of British decision-making on infrastructure.

Iain Dale: My knickers are for the many not the few

Plus: Will Javid come back? Will Boris Island fly? Hazzer, formerly the Duke of Sussex. And: an ice bath in a Scandi forest.

Giving power to the judges. First Heathrow – next, the NHS.

If governments are going to keep signing up to ‘legally-binding targets’, this sort of thing will continue to happen. Legislative indolence is the root of judicial power.

Profile: Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor who stands between the judges…and the wrath of the Brexiteers

The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.

A victory for free speech. But clear legal safeguards are still needed.

Tightening the definition of a “hate incident” would help. Our new Attorney General has a lot of work to do if public confidence is to be restored.

Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.

We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.