Richard Ritchie: What the great Commons debates on devolution can teach today’s unionists

Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.

Henry Hill: Johnson prepares to take a more ‘robust’ line on the Union… but muzzles devosceptics

Also: Plaid suspend high-profile candidate over antisemitic comments; DUP call on O’Neill to ‘step aside’; and Anglesey spared shake-up of Welsh seats.

Henry Hill: Scottish schools face a full year of disruption, and the DUP clash with teaching unions

The battle to re-open state schools rages across the UK. Also: Mohammed Asghar, Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, passed away this week.

Henry Hill: New polling shows Welsh devoscepticism is no longer a fringe interest

The proposition is backed by more than a third of those prepared to say how they’d vote – including an overwhelming majority of Tories.

Gavin Barwell: We underestimate Starmer at our peril

Theresa May’s former Chief of Staff takes issue with the Deputy Editor of this site – and argues that the Labour leader may yet make it to Number Ten.

Stephen Booth: Contrary to expectations, the UK may have the upper hand as Brexit negotiations intensify

With its objective being British sovereignty, Johnson’s government can justify economic disruption better than the EU.

Europe 2.0? How divisions over devolution could stall the Tories’ march on Cardiff

The Party is keen to keep a lid on the issue ahead of next year’s Welsh elections, but disaffected activists and challenger parties are putting it on the agenda.

Christopher Harries: We Welsh Tories must be a bulwark against devocrat demands for ‘more powers’

Ahead of next year’s elections, we have to show our sceptical voters that we’re not just another horse on the Cardiff Bay carousel.

Henry Hill: Davies pivots in a devosceptic direction as he ‘relaunches’ his leadership

Also: Gove warns the Electoral Commission not to ‘waste time’ on SNP demands; Scottish Nationalists showing the strain as problems mount; and more.

Henry Hill: Could the Welsh Conservatives go into coalition with Plaid next year?

Also: Carlaw and Johnson meet to discuss tweaks to the points-based immigration system; the SNP make trouble over the Irish Protocol; and more.

Henry Hill: Carlaw kicks off comprehensive policy review to take the fight to the SNP

Also: Plaid fined almost £30,000 for misreporting donations worth half a million pounds; Labour hopefuls sing from devolution’s tattered hymnal; and more.

Adrian Mason: Why should non-Labour North Wales be the prisoner of the socialist monopoly in South Wales?

What has been the Conservative Party ‘s response at Westminster to this situation? Incredibly, it has been to offer Wales even more devolution.

Henry Hill: What the election tells us about the Tory position in Wales and Scotland

The Party actually gained ground in both nations – but the Scots were overtaken by a Nationalist surge, whilst the Welsh were not.

Henry Hill: YouGov lowers its Tory expectations in Wales and Scotland – but other sources disagree

The Welsh Political Barometer, for example, forecasts a great night for the Conservatives. They can’t both be right.

Election Battlegrounds 10) Wales

Where the Tories have rallied in Scotland, Labour appear to have done so here. There is a broad range of possible Conservative targets, but only a few anticipated gains.