Garvan Walshe: Nobody except the Catalan separatists will gain from Spain’s second election of the year

The PSOE hoped to reunite the Left. Instead, rising tensions have fuelled extreme parties.

Jonathan Clark: Brexit. Is democracy at risk?

Two different conceptions of it are widely held in the UK, representative and direct. In 2019, they collide.

Greg Hands: One might think that no-one in Brussels has read our Alternative Arrangements report

Many of our proposals can be introduced quickly. Some might take 12 – 15 months. We don’t believe anything will take longer than two to three years.

Rachel Wolf: The Birmingham schools gay relationships row. Religious conservatives won’t like it, but government must take a stand.

You can’t ignore the existence of couples and families that you’ve actively supported in legislation.

Benedict Rogers: Character, values and dignity. Why I am voting for Hunt.

We don’t need a ‘Brexiteer’ leader, we need a unifier, a leader who is not marked by labels but by their ability to implement the referendum result.

George Freeman: Our new book. In which forty Tory MPs band together to help revive conservatism.

Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.

Iain Dale: God help the UK Conservatives (so to speak) if they become religious fanatics – like the American Republicans.

Plus: The good and bad sides of Twitter – all in my week. How it may have helped to save a life. But also saw me slagged off for something I didn’t say.

WATCH: Hunt’s Easter message – “In terms of numbers, Christians are the world’s most persecuted faith”

“That’s why I’ve asked the Bishop of Truro…to conduct an independent review into the global persecution of Christians.”

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.

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?’ ”

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.”

Andy Street: Anti-Muslim terror and anti-gay protests. The one thing we mustn’t tolerate is intolerance – wherever it comes from.

The New Zealand attack, the Birmingham school protests – and what we’re doing in the West Midlands to build cohesion and resilience.

The Conservatives and anti-Muslim prejudice. A role for the Extremism Commissioner.

Sara Khan should hold an investigation into racial and religious prejudice among all the main parties.

Garvan Walshe: Assailed by police, polls and a triumvirate of ex-generals, can Netanyahu hold on to power?

The odds are stacking ever higher against the man who has dominated his country’s politics for years.