Jihyun Park: Growing up in North Korea, I could have never imagined standing in the UK local elections. Here’s what I learnt.

Since I arrived in 2018, I have discovered so much about British politics – and the value of a name.

A day to ponder the tale of a candidate in these elections, and ask ourselves if we take democracy for granted

Jihyun Park was beaten, tortured, used for sex and put in a North Korean labour camp – before escaping, and making a new life for herself here.

The first North Koreans to stand as Conservative candidates help vindicate our democracy

The harrowing personal story of Jihyun Park, followed by her selection as a Tory candidate in Bury, puts current political obsessions in perspective.

David Alton: The horror of this day, Good Friday, is a horror for our times

Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.

Neil O’Brien: The view that manufacturing is a relic of the past is itself a relic of the past

It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK

Kristian Niemietz: What difference does the size of the state make to how is deals with Covid? None.

If it were the critical factor, Belgium should have been superbly prepared for the pandemic. Alas, it was not.

JP Floru: The call for ‘Covid Marshals’ shows that ministers are losing their grip on the nation

That Boris Johnson feels the need to mobilise civilian enforcers is clear evidence that a second harsh lockdown does not command popular support.

Benedict Rogers: It’s time for Raab to bring Magnitsky sanctions to bear on those oppressing Hong Kong

The Foreign Secretary helped to author this important legislation. If Britain is to continue to take a robust stance against Beijing, he must now use it,

Alexander Woolf: My economic views are mainstream – but have been almost impossible to air at Britain’s universities

Many of these institutions claim to be “safe spaces”. Not if you voted Conservative, though.

Chris Whitehouse: Raab delivers on Magnitsky sanctions

There is further to go – but we can be proud of what the Foreign Secretary has already delivered.

Hugo de Burgh: We owe it to future generations of Brits to work with China

It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.

Slave Lives Matter. The anti-slavery campaign that every Conservative should join.

Building on May’s legacy will mean grinding, attritional work – which the hard left and extremist parties are neither interested in nor capable of doing.

Our snap survey. Over half of our Conservative member panel backs Johnson’s plan. A third want a Sweden-style looser lockdown.

The Prime Minister has room and time to get the new policy right – at least as far as most Party members are concerned.

Ten things you never knew about South Korea – some of which explain why it is so good at dealing with the virus

The reluctance of the experts to predict Korean unification means the chances of this happening are almost certainly underestimated.

Daniel Hannan: To help grow us out of this crisis, we need free trade more than ever

The idea that we should not seek the closest commercial relationship with the United States is unconscionable.