Brian Monteith: Three cheers for Davidson’s positive case for the Union

The Scottish Tory leader just demonstrated how she can be the perfect antidote to Salmond.

Henry Hill: The new Welsh Secretary faces a delicate challenge

Also: Stormont flirts with disaster over budget deadlock; ‘Help to Buy’ sees Scotland run out of bricks; and BBC staff plan Commonwealth Games strike.

The Tory leadership needs to start talking about England again, ahead of 2015

They promised to address the West Lothian Question. Now they’re just ignoring it. If they carry on, UKIP and Labour will capitalise.

Henry Hill: Welsh minister Davies sacked for abuse of power

Also: Violence hangs over Orange Order on both sides of the water as Twelfth looms; and Welsh Labour face familiar rebellion over all-women shortlists.

Brian Monteith: Salmond’s Kryptonite is his almighty over-confidence

The No campaign must not put the boot into the First Minister. They must tease him instead.

Henry Hill: Gove’s Welsh intervention highlights the contradictions of devolution

Also: Nationalist conspiracy theorists target Armed Forces Day and the BBC as ground is laid for ‘establishment stitch-up’ narrative.

Henry Hill: Welsh independent schools ditch devolved GCSE for English alternative

Also: Race equality campaigner quits Scottish Labour over ‘nepotistic’ candidate selection; and co-founder claims NI21 should be ‘put down’.

Conservatives need to learn once more to speak the language of patriotism

Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.

Brian Monteith: Why the Unionist parties have united behind greater devolution

It’s all about withholding the power for change from the nationalists. But the question is: will the public believe the Unionists’ promises?

Henry Hill: Young Scots deliver fresh rebuke to Salmond’s manifest destiny

Also: NI21 civil war rages on; language activist warns of ‘death of Welsh’; and are the NI Tories being undermined to woo the DUP?

“No, thanks” – Better Together deploys politeness to save the Union

The unionists’ new slogan seeks to neutralise the debate and reassure voters intimidated by Yes rhetoric.

Henry Hill: Salmond vows to stand in 2016

Also: From the demise of non-English ‘big beasts’ to increased culture clash – how we might drift apart in the age of devolution.

WATCH: Brown – “I think Scotland can be big in the world without being a separate state.”

“I’m proud of Britain as a multinational country with an inclusive idea of what it means to be British.”

Henry Hill: CCHQ must root out the rot in the NI Conservatives

Also: Jones overrules local preferences to give Welsh pre-eminence; Scottish Isles bid for more powers; and embattled NI21 leader receives sexual misconduct report.

Peter Duncan: The Strathclyde Commission – a chance to right 40 years of missed chances for Scotland’s Conservatives

Labour’s timidity has left a space for Tory boldness. But will the Commission take it?