James Somerville-Meikle: Religious services are essential for many people; the Government must not stop them again.

Furthermore, there have been huge efforts at places of worship to stop the spread of the virus.

Jonathan Hughes: In memory of Jonathan Sacks – whose words and writing contributed so much to British politics and society

He had a rare gift for reaching Jewish and non-Jewish and popular and elite audiences with his advocacy of community over individualism.

Iain Dale: Trump is displaying all the signs of believing his own lies. And he is undermining democracy itself.

The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.

Gary Powell: Local Authorities must play their part in defending freedom of speech and religion

If we allow the Left to impose their own ideology as the unassailable cultural norm, then we diminish the responsibilities of elected office.

Lucy Winkett: Churches have played a vital role throughout Covid. But their buildings are increasingly under threat.

Often hundreds of years old, they contend with crumbling roofs, deteriorating halls, and other inadequate facilities. These spaces desperately need funding.

Iain Dale: Farron’s strange friends here and Hammond’s bloody ones abroad

Plus: Why the BBC must keep Neil. Why I’m leaving Lloyds. And: three hours with the LibDem leadership candidates.

Neil O’Brien: No, more economic prosperity doesn’t depend on more social liberalism

I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.

Matt Kilcoyne: An unholy alliance is frustrating our freedom to shop on Sunday. Johnson should take it on.

The existing rules are inconsistent and hypocritical. They do not reflect a 24/7 economy, where people can purchase online and receive deliveries any time.

Sunder Katwala: Race and age. To older Britons, the pace of progress seems swift. To younger ones, frustratingly slow.

The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.

Samuel Williams: Taking the knee is an expression of evolution – of showing compassion, even if it comes at a cost to ourselves

But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.

Conservative MPs must be ready to keep Sunday special

A limited suspension is one thing, lasting change would be another. And so often, nothing is so permanent as the temporary.

Cummings 2) The Church of England. People want guidance on God, not sermons about advisers.

Its bishops’ latest attack on Cummings will do nothing to enamour the electorate.

The New Normal will be Very Abnormal Indeed. Here are 15 sets of questions about it.

How prepared are we for strict social distancing for the forseeable future, compulsory masks, closed leisure facilities – and a semi-functioning economy?

Music for Easter Sunday: Pascha nostrum

“Christ, our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed, alleluia; therefore, let us keep the feast by sharing the unleavened bread of uprightness and truth, alleluia.”

James Somerville-Meikle: Our churches will open again after the virus. But for many Christians round the world, theirs will stay shut.

This crisis is teaching us the value of religious freedom, and the need to speak up for our faith at home and abroad.