Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist

It has a constructive role to play, supporting artistic creativity without interfering with content.

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister and a rising star who knows what it is like to fall

When his family fell on hard times, education made the difference. Were there to be a vacancy in that department, he would be an obvious candidate.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: This highlight of the parliamentary week is dying from long-windedness

The questions are posed with a ponderousness that recalls Polonius as his most sententious: too much evidence, too little wit.

Finkelstein shows that moderate, decent, pragmatic, intelligent conservatism is alive and well

His columns from The Times are informed by his experience of what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work.

Angela Richardson: Recovery cannot come a moment too soon for the performing arts

Our rich cultural heritage is essential to the beating heart of this country, and must not be forgotten through Coronavirus.

Why the Cabinet Office will be in the dock for Covid failures when the inquiry comes. As will Sedwill.

The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.

The middle way on free and fair trade (and the only practicable one)

People cannot simply be viewed as consumers or producers – there are other dimensions to policy, including the stewardship of the countryside.

Daniel Hannan: Identity politics threatens modern civilisation

It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.

How the half a century-long Conservative civil war over Europe was won last week in a single day. By the Brexiteers.

One has to pinch oneself to remember that as recently as last July May was Prime Minister, Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequer and Gauke Lord Chancellor.

Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: The Foreign Secretary trumped by Rees-Mogg the Tory Democrat

Raab trod gingerly in Heseltine’s footsteps, while the Leader of the House presented the Shakespearean drama of politics.

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

Interview. Johnson says that every member of his Cabinet must sign up to Britain leaving the EU on 31st October – deal or no deal

The front runner on extension, Scotland, that Islamophobia inquiry, wrestling naked with Hunt – and taking a Trollope to bed in Downing Street.

A fact amidst the rumours. The Prime Minister is failing to persuade most rebel Conservative MPs to switch and support her deal.

We count four so far from our list of 109 who have changed their minds – and all of them were only “probables”.

Daniel Hannan: That Brexit film works as drama. But it doesn’t as history. I should know. I was there.

The real flaw in Graham’s film was the implication that Vote Leave won by turning the European question into something else.

Davis waves away at the crown

There are at least four big obstacles to any plan to crown him leader. And there’s no sign that he has endorsed it, anyway.