Iain Dale: Feel for the Grenfell judge. Nothing he could say or do would appease those who claim to speak for the victims.

Plus: I miss the Liberal Democrat conference. I miss the beards. I miss the sandals. I miss being asked for a discount on a 50p postcard…

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.

Chris Grayling: Upgraded roads. New trains. A record modernisation programme. Putting straight our record on transport and the North.

We are waiting for Labour to deliver their proposals. Because this should be too important an issue to become a political football.

Bruce Newsome: The Government must get real about counter-terrorism strategy

No more foreign funding of extremism. No more self-appointed “community” intermediaries. No more pretence that it’s all about cyberspace.

Iain Duncan Smith: We must face hard truths about homegrown extremism

This problem may have started abroad, but it is now here, in our own society. It must be dealt with.

Richard Benyon: Corbyn on terrorism – wrong then, wrong now

From the IRA through to today’s Islamist extremist threat, the Labour leader has misidentified the causes and proposed the wrong solutions.

Nadhim Zahawi: This is not a manifesto that plays it safe. But it’s the right one for Britain.

There is a radical, ambitious zeal evident throughout the document, and it is shown again in the desire to end iniquitous disparities between the generations.

Corbyn, terror’s useful idiot

There is no foreign policy that could appease the likes of the Manchester terrorists. Islamists damn us if we intervene, and damn us if we don’t.

Daniel Hannan: The Manchester suicide bombing wasn’t “cowardly” – it was far, far worse than that

Nor should we indulge the murderer’s view of himself as being motivated by ideology. He was evil, and his final act was to spit in the face of God.

WATCH: Manchester’s Chief Constable – “It’s very clear that this is a network that we’re investigating”

“We have made three further arrests overnight, and this afternoon used a controlled explosion at an address at the city centre.”

Troops deployed. No MPs to probe Ministers. Temperer set to continue. No normal campaigning. We enter No Man’s Land.

The combination of a terror atrocity, mass deployment of troops, an election campaign and no legislature takes us into unchartered waters.

Five thousand armed soldiers are deployed on Britain’s streets as the terror threat level is raised to “critical”

This highest of five threat levels means that “an attack is expected imminently”. They are set not by the Prime Minister, but by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.

These terrorists are fanatics – not just “losers”. Or simply “evil”. Until we grasp this, we won’t beat them.

Fear of western girls and women is a part of the ideology which is struggling for control of Islam – the hatred of liberal democracy where Salafism and Islamism meet.

WATCH: May – “I ask everybody to be vigilant, and support the police as they go about their important work.”

Plus, read the full text of the Prime Minister’s statement on the heightened threat level and deployment of troops.

Mohammed Amin: As a Muslim, Briton and Mancunian, I believe that defeating terror requires us to stay united

I am fed up to the back teeth with people pronouncing that such terrorist atrocities have nothing to do with the perpetrators’ religious views.