Alex Morton: Conservatives and Liberals share a new opponent – Progressive Authoritarians

But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.

Music for Easter Sunday – “Jesus Christ is risen today”

“But the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation have procured; Alleluia!” A very Happy Easter to all our readers.

WATCH: The Prime Minister’s Easter message: “An inspiring promise of new life and the triumph of hope”

“For Christians around the world facing persecution, the message of the Cross and the Resurrection helped them to stand firm in their faith.”

Music for Holy Saturday: Recessit Pastor Noster

“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death and their bars as well our Saviour has destroyed.”

Music for Good Friday: Tenebrae Factae Sunt

“There was darkness over the earth…and about the ninth hour Jesus cried aloud: ‘My God why hast thou forsaken me?’ ”

Jamie McGowan: The SNP went too far with its law against sectarian songs

This legislation runs against Scotland’s deep traditions of political pluralism and toleration.

Music for Maundy Thursday: Ubi caritas et amor

“Where charity and love are, there God is. Love of Christ has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.”

The Moggcast. On Catholicism. “I’ve never had any doubts. I know that’s an unusual thing to say…I try to say the Rosary every day.”

Easter approaches. And here is Rees-Mogg on suffering, abortion, the Tridentine Mass, faith and politics…and why Brexiteer MPs won’t roll over on a final EU deal.

Roy Galley: Failing to invest in good religious education now will cost us later

The subject is vital for equipping young people to navigate the modern world and respect different cultures.

Martin Parsons: Casey’s proposals were an attack on religious freedom. Javid was right to bin them.

The Green Paper isn’t perfect, but the Communities Secretary is right to reject oaths of office and an excessively broad definition of ‘extremism’.

The Moggcast. “Russia is a rogue state”, and we should use “a Magnitsky-style law” to “target people close to the Kremlin”

Why he believes Brexit will make life harder for Putin. Plus: Can Hammond hold course in today’s Spring Statement? And how does faith fit into public life?

Rebecca Lowe: More heat than Enlightenment

We must not conflate the progress that scientific advancement offers us with the idea that debate becomes redundant in the face of an increased awareness of scientific fact.

Iain Dale: The week in which I managed to offend Jews and Muslims at the same time

Plus: Brexodus, what Brexodus. The Gay Hussar improves. James Cleverly impresses. And: join Liam Halligan, Ayesha Hazarika and I on CNN Talk.

Labour’s internal battle over trans women and All-Women Shortlists suggests its strategy of identity politics is backfiring

There are electoral opportunities in binding whole groups to a party based on collective identity – but what happens when those groups come into conflict?

State-funded Muslim schools. The elephant in the classroom.

The controversy over lifting the cap on new faith schools is not confined to Catholic ones. Hinds has a knotty problem to untangle.