Barnaby Lenon: Independent schools have much to offer the state sector, and stand ready to help

The stellar success of the London Academy of Excellence, supported by six independent schools, shows just some of what we can achieve by co-operating.

The reaction to the NHS pay offer shows that relaxing austerity will not be as easy as some imagine

It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.

Richard Tice: Attacking developers won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis

There is plenty of scope for boosting housebuilding, but the Government should concentrate on the problems posed by the public sector.

Iain Dale: Help me and others to get justice for Worboys’ victims

Plus: Corbyn’s lack of private sector experience. And, come to think of it, his lack of public sector experience. And: justice for Worboys’ victims.

Carillion. Don’t say that Jesse Norman didn’t warn us (in a manner of speaking)

That the company is a government customer isn’t the whole story. After all, few customers must manage the consequences of their supplier’s collapse.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

Alex Wild: Build houses, abolish NICs for people under 30. How to win younger peoples’ votes.

The youth vote is not one homogenous lump: more than half of school leavers won’t go to university, and won’t benefit from more generous student loan terms.

Lord Ashcroft: My public sector pay poll finds large majorities for lifting the cap

Most Labour voters think their party should support strike action if pay demands are not met, and most voters think private sector wages are higher.

Liam Booth-Smith: The lifting of the public sector pay cap is bad policy and worse politics

Ministers should remain focused on delivering on their promise to cut the deficit, even if it means paying the iron price to do so.

Public sector payback time

Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.

Row over university pay arises because we expect them to be two things in one

Without America’s clear split between elite institutions and public service providers, vice-chancellors are caught between very different sets of expectations.

Howard Flight: So who’s to blame for our productivity problems? Step forward, Gordon Brown

Between 1997 and 2005, public sector spending rose from £336 billion to £517 billion a year. But its output has increased little, so its productivity has fallen dramatically.

Taxpayers are entitled to action over fat cat college pay

Claims by universities to be financially independent are nonsense.

Hugh Byrne: The NHS must do more to respect patients’ individual autonomy

Charlie Gard’s case highlights how the culture of the Health Service can make it deeply resistant to the legitimate wishes of patients.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn does May a good turn

By forcing the Prime Minister to talk about Economics for Beginners, the Leader of the Opposition has pushed her onto favourable ground.