Jesse Norman: Conservatism, the party leadership, and the future of our country. Why I am considering standing.

If you believe in this idea of conservatism; if you want new faces at the table; if you share these ambitions, then please say so.

Andy Street: Cleaning up pollution of the past to build the homes of tomorrow

Fittingly, the Black Country, synonymous with the heavy industry of the Industrial Revolution, aims to take the lead in building this new science of reclamation.

Rebecca Lowe: Why the taxpayer should fund space exploration

There is a fundamental human need and desire to know more about the universe, to engage with it, to play our part and explore and achieve.

May’s speech on science – “the UK’s ingenuity and creativity will be what drives our progress as a nation”

“Today over half of the UK’s resident researcher population were born overseas. When we leave the European Union, I will ensure that does not change.”

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.

Judy Terry: For Britain to thrive, science teaching must be promoted

Councils could encourage more schools to specialise and give more children in care the chance to attend boarding schools.

Spreadsheet Phil must become Storyteller Phil – if his Budget is to succeed where the Tory conference failed

The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.

Ideas for the Budget 1) Peter Franklin: Wanted. A Marshall Plan for housing’s excluded generation.

To reduce investment in infrastructure or R&D is to take away from the future – just as surely as running up unsustainable debt does.

John Bald: Progressive educationalists ignore how the brain works

The evidence of improved standards shows that a knowledge-rich curriculum is the best way to enable each person to achieve the best of which he or she is capable.

Iain Duncan Smith: What a new migration policy might look like

A combination of work permits and a cap would provide proper control, while still allowing flexibility where it is required.

Daniel Hannan: The modern politician must learn about psychology, and how evolution moulds our minds

Just as the MPs of the 1970s realised the need to understand economics, the MPs of the 21st Century must understand how we think, and why.

David Rutley: Life sciences are vital to Britain’s global future

Now is the time to spread more of the success beyond the South East.

Iain Duncan Smith: Today, at long last, we begin the process of leaving the EU

The Article 50 Bill starts its passage through the Commons today – uniting the Conservative Party and throwing Labour into disarray.

Simon Clarke: Yes, Brexit will bring new problems for Universities. But it will also bring new opportunities.

The most successful ones will be those that maintain their partnerships in Europe, but also look farther afield to forge new associations across the globe.

Douglas Hansen-Luke: Innovation. We have the money. We have the minds. Now we need the mojo.

We need to value ourselves more highly and create, capture and share that value with others.