Robert Tyler: China is targeting our Commonwealth friends and allies. We need a united front against it.

It’s time that we all stood shoulder to shoulder together, and kept ourselves safe from outside interference.

Daniel Bruce: Why the new Dfid and Foreign Office team must lead the way in tackling aid corruption

Let’s use ever-increasing intelligence – and stop the flow of dirty money out of poor countries.

Daniel Hannan: Revolutionary Iran is a threat to our national security – not just regional stability. It must be confronted and defeated.

During the years when the West sought to draw Iran back into the comity of nations, the ayatollahs backed terrorist bombs, cyberattacks, and drone shootings.

Alan Mak: Conservatism 4.0 – We must ensure that no-one is left behind by the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The second article in a three-part series explaining why adapting to a society and economy shaped by technology is key.

Nicholas Daniels: British aid should primarily be about investments, not handouts

Ultimately, it is economic growth not traditional aid which will support the growing populations of the developing world.

Lord Ashcroft: Tanzania – a case study in the bulging textbook of aid failure

Magufuli talks of the ‘harmful effects of birth control’ and attacks women using contraception as ‘lazy’, but we give £45 million to boost family planning in his nation.

Nicholas Daniels: Investment should play a much greater role in British overseas aid strategy

Supporting businesses and innovators can generate scalable, sustainable returns whilst bypassing corrupt middle-men and avoiding white elephant projects.

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Nicholas Daniels: I’ve seen African dictators wreck their countries. Corbyn must be stopped from doing the same to Britain.

I was drawn to work here by the values which I believe can help a struggling economy become more productive: autonomy, hard work, and enterprise.

Elizabeth Truss: We must have the confidence to chart a course based on the values of freedom

Free enterprise has huge benefits. But more than that, it is intensely democratic, open and diverse – breaking down monopolies, hierarchies and outdated practices.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why over-policing undermines the police themselves – and civil society

Improving the situation means not only holding the police to greater account, but behaving more responsibly ourselves.

Martin Parsons: For Syria to have a future, the West must stop jihadist genocide as well as Assad’s war crimes

Action must go beyond ISIS to prevent other, similarly-minded, jihadist groups prospering.

May’s Scotland gambit – to place EU departure at the heart of her Unionist appeal

Her speech yesterday sought to turn a weakness into a strength- by projecting Britain as a globally-engaged, progressive, aid-friendly country.

Mark Pursey: A new deal with Kenya represents a significant move away from Blair’s unworldly foreign policy

Allowing Kenyan courts to try British troops for crimes committed when off duty has wide ramifications.