George Freeman: This new report shows how we can build on Britain’s vaccine success to make the best of Brexit

The TIGGR document on regulation published today focuses on playing to our strengths in the highest growing sectors of tomorrow.

Grant Shapps: Building back better must mean an enhanced sovereign space presence for Britain

Our vaccination programme is proof of what can be achieved when science and industry is backed by the power of the state.

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 2) The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill

Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.

Luke Coffey: My friend Tobias Ellwood is right to want Britain to purchase this piece of Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Circle

Some are having fun with Alan Duncan’s diary revelation that Tobias wants Svetland to become a UK spaceport. They shouldn’t.

George Dibb: To become a ‘science superpower’, we must learn the lessons of the vaccine success story

There is a balance to strike between the statism of the post-War era and the full-blooded free market ideology of the 1980s.

Jeremy Quin: The Government’s defence investment ensures a modern, persistent and effective approach to future threats

Spending amounts to an extra £24 billion over four years from today’s levels, helping to equip our Armed Forces.

Chris Skidmore: ARIA has to be just the start of a sea-change in British attitudes towards research

Our new agency, with radical freedom to fund blue-sky innovation, is overdue. But its funding is still less than one per cent of UK R&D funding.

Interview. Therese Coffey – “An element of a kinder politics is not calling other people bigots because you don’t agree with them.”

Here’s her take on Universal Credit, science, Liverpool, same-sex marriage – and her department. “Big thanks to the Jabs Army, we are the Jobs Army.”

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Cummings explains why it is safer to be a gambler than a bureaucrat

In order to remain world-leading in science, the PM’s former adviser explained, it is necessary to take risks and cut out bureaucracy.

“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.

The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.

Will Tanner: Covid and vaccines. Imagine what would have happened if we’d junked intervention – and opted instead for laissez faire.

The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.

Chris Skidmore: Britannia Unchained revisited. How to build on vaccine success – and make Britain a science superpower

The Prime Minister is right to put research and development at the heart of his plan to build back.

George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.

I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.

Chris Skidmore: It’s freedom that will make Britain a global science superpower – not Whitehall micro-management

In spite of Cummings’ departure, DARPA should remain a manifesto priority: we need its approach to risk – and indeed failure.

Rob Sutton: Government needs advisers. But advisers need competition – not their present monopoly.

The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.