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.

Iain Dale: No gloating, no jingoism, please. Let’s not rub Remainers’ noses in it.

Plus: No nay to Huawei. Or to HS2, too. And: my looming interview with Pompeo on his visit to London.

Richard Bingley: A cyber war is on the way

Iran, accustomed to artful brinksmanship and operational deniability, and equipped with an experienced cyber army, may take its revenge online.

Trump and Iran. What’s the plan?

It isn’t obvious that his foreign policy has been less effective than George W.Bush’s activism or Obama’s passivity. But what’s his aim here?

Liam Fox: Now we must focus on getting Brexit done – and on Labour’s threat to wages, job and savings

Understandably, attention is concentrated on the London Bridge attack aftermath. But we must focus laser-like on all the essential issues.

War and peace – with Iran, Trump-style

He could soon preside over a full-scale proxy war, or else do the Nixon-to-China routine with Rouhani. There is simply no way of knowing.