Profile: Olive, sorry, Oliver Dowden, saviour of the arts, bedrock insider – and unknown to the public

Few people understand better than the Culture Secretary how the government machine works, or fails to work.

White hot heat of the technological Cummings?

This new government seems to want to concentrate its energies on giving Britain a cutting edge. Will it succeed where others have failed?

George Freeman: Our new book. In which forty Tory MPs band together to help revive conservatism.

Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.

James Frayne: Westminster’s reputation is already so poor that the harassment scandal won’t change voters’ opinions

The allegations are dreadful, and must be dealt with, but the grim truth is that few people will be surprised by them.

James Frayne: Right or wrong, most people bitterly oppose MPs having “second jobs”

If politicians will create a big, interventionist state, then voters will expect them to manage it on a full-time basis.

Putting ‘independent’ experts in control of immigration policy would be a mistake

It’s always tempting for politicians to outsource important decisions. But it doesn’t work.

James Frayne: There’s a quiet counter-revolution underway in England

Some voters are angry, but anger doesn’t define most people most of the time.

Henry Hill: Brokenshire revives dispute with Dublin over contested fishing waters

Also: Demands for probe into expenses of SNP MPs as costs soar; economist says Wales no longer ‘significantly underfunded’; and more.

Ryan Shorthouse: Don’t bend to this anti-establishment rage. Challenge and confront it.

Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.

Cameron, Osborne, Ministers, MPs, tax returns – and the fourth money laundering directive

The Prime Minister’s decision to publish his tax return has big knock-on implications for his colleagues, and perhaps for himself too.

Only the public and the press can keep MPs honest

When it comes to the Commons, who watches the watchmen? An independent regulator is impossible: it has to be us.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Our institutions suffered a self-inflicted loss of public trust – so it falls to us to rebuild

Trust is essential to the future of a country. This One Nation Conservative Government is restoring the public’s faith.

WATCH: Cameron “disconnected with public” over expenses says Farage

“The question for leaders of parties is how do you deal with people when problems occur.”

MPs are increasingly wary of sticking their necks out for the Government in a crisis

Plenty have been left hanging in the breeze by sudden u-turns – and they’ve learned from the experience.

WATCH: Miller’s PPS – “This is a witch hunt by the media”

Mary Macleod MP added that “We cannot allow the media to hound someone when the allegations have been dismissed.”