Henry Hill: Frost urges ‘calm’ as EU talks up tough response to triggering Article 16

We hear less from the “you signed it!” crowd now Brussels is seeking remedies outside the terms of the agreement.

Henry Hill: The SNP wrong to claim the Belfast Agreement is a template for Scotland

Such specious arguments are more for their own activists’ consumption than a serious effort to persuade British ministers.

John Redwood: The EU has become the biggest threat to the Union of the UK. Lord Frost must move swiftly to protect its integrity.

The EU seems to think that there’s a price to be paid for Brexit – and that is the detachment of Northern Ireland from the UK.

Henry Hill: The SNP’s new politics of ‘are you dead yet?’ shows time is not really on their side

Also: Court rules that Lewis has failed in his responsibility to provide abortion services in Ulster; Sturgeon accused of Covid cover-up.

Dave Dempsey: What can Scottish Conservative councillors look forward to in May’s local elections?

We should make some gains in rural areas. Labour is no longer a reliably unionist party – which is gradually being noticed by the voters.

Henry Hill: Sturgeon distracts her troops with promises of another independence ‘prospectus’

Also; does consenting to indefinitely extending grace periods show the EU finally gets the need to change the Protocol?

A formal alliance with the Greens shows that the SNP are on the defensive

The move shores up their position within the separatist movement at the expense of reaching out to sceptics and unionists.

David Green: The Government should tell the SNP that any referendum must give parts of Scotland the right to remain

It should seize the initiative and challenge the right of the party to speak for all Scots.

Henry Hill: SNP faces police investigation over ‘missing’ independence campaign cash

Also: Ministers give opponents of Troubles amnesty six weeks to propose alternatives and square off to the devocrats over freeports.

Lionel Zetter: The SNP’s second referendum plans seem to include every voter – apart from expatriate Scots

Many maintain close ties with families and friends back home. Their interest in the future of Scotland remains undimmed.

WATCH: Scotland and the future of the Union

Our panel, including Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross, discuss the impact of the recent Holyrood election.

Henry Hill: Last week, Ross secured his ‘Unionist’ base. The next task: selling Scots on the ‘Conservative’ bit.

Has the party secured a base it can build on in a less polarised politics? Or is it merely propped up on borrowed pro-UK votes?

WATCH: Sturgeon criticises “lack of respect for Scottish democracy that this UK government has demonstrated over quite some time”

She says it would be “absurd and completely outrageous” if it challenged the Scottish parliament in court over legislation on another referendum.

WATCH: The SNP’s deputy leader: “in the event that Johnson tries to do a Trump… I believe the referendum will still happen”

Brown warns the PM that using “the legal process to subvert Scottish democracy” won’t work.

WATCH: “We’re not going to go there” – Gove on whether legislation could pass for a second Scottish independence referendum

But he adds that he is “determined” to work with Sturgeon “in dealing with the immediate problems we face.”