To salvage her Brexit policy, May must now ensure that her government is ready for No Deal. Or it won’t last.

There is time to correct the lack of preparedness of our customs and computers for 2019. But it is running out.

The Commons has acted as the legislature of a sovereign country

Although Brexit has not yet taken place, it has already had an admirably invigorating effect on Parliament.

“Most of what’s been built in my lifetime could be demolished without aesthetic cost”. Hayes’s speech on beauty: full text

It is not for nothing that the ‘hero’ of Ayn Rand’s despicable book ‘The Fountainhead’ is an architect.

Alex Morton: May must not turn into Major

She cannot be a stationary establishment figure when faced with the restless mood of the voting public. She must move forwards – or we risk a 1997-style wipeout.

Gummer. Freeman. Godfrey – and Timothy. The team helping to shape the Conservative manifesto.

That’s the head of the Downing Street Policy Unit, the Chair of May’s Policy Board, the most important Minister you’ve never heard of…and our former columnist.

Profile: Ben Gummer – the most important Minister whose role you’ve never heard of

Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.

The last closed shop must end if we’re to get the best out of Brexit

The civil service should advertise vacancies to all comers.

Cameron’s resignation peerages and honours list

Read all about it.

Matthew Sinclair: We need to convince our friends in Europe that we’re not abandoning them

They should be given some things that are genuinely awkward for us, and have their existential concerns addressed.

Jill Rutter: We need a Minister for Brexit – but not a Ministry for Brexit

The Cabinet Office could provide the structure – while a new department would be a costly distraction.

Lee Rotherham: Ten tips for Letwin on the Brexit negotiations

Advice to the Government’s transitional team.

Howard Flight: The City can flourish after Brexit – and the EEA option is the safest means of ensuring this happens

Continental Europe needs the financial services of London just as much, if not more, than London needs its financial exports to Continental Europe.

Gove as Deputy PM. May to the Treasury. Osborne to Foreign, Boris to Home. The unity reshuffle.

How Cameron can bind up the Party’s wounds post-election.

From Reggie to Dessie: In which glamorous young ladies of Eastern European extraction close in on Conservative MPs

Plus: The Parliamentary Awayday. Matt Hancock is bitten by a police alsatian – but as Fabricant observed, the dog should live!

From Reggie to Dessie: When Rosie Winterton was mistaken for Barbara Windsor

And I’m having none of that nonsense about Dry January.