Henry Hill: After years of kowtowing, it’s hard to believe the SNP/Green deal might be in trouble

Also: Donaldson to lead DUP from Westminster after no MLA will make room for him in Stormont.

Iain Dale: Very little shocks me. But Cummings revealing the Prime Minister’s texts stinks.

Plus: Biden was the adult in the room at the G7. And: Why I support mandatory vaccinations for care home workers.

Henry Hill: Could the fallout from the Protocol yet split the DUP?

Poots has purged Foster’s old team and nominated an ex-spad as First Minister. These do not suggest confidence.

Henry Hill: Fury as Scottish Tories suggest SNP majority is a ‘guarantee’ of another referendum

The Nationalists themselves are doing everything they can to minimise their central policy. All the materials for denying their mandate are there.

Henry Hill: Tories hope that ‘Boris bounce’ will save them in Brecon and Radnorshire

The Prime Minister’s tour of the United Kingdom sees him square off against nationalists from Sinn Fein, the SNP… and Welsh Labour.

Have Scottish Tory splitters found the blueprint for a lasting Conservative/DUP alliance?

Strengthening Ulster’s bonds with the mainland starts with ending the de facto exile of its unionist politics – if Johnson and Foster have the imagination and will to see it done.

David Shiels: Brexit, Northern Ireland, and borders. Why the DUP may yet break ranks with May – and force a general election

The issue of the backstop is becoming more heated and harder to navigate as time goes by.

Interview. The Brexit negotiation – Dodds warns against the “annexation” of Northern Ireland

The DUP’s Westminster Leader says the Irish border issue is being exploited by people who want “to thwart leaving the EU if they can”.

The Belfast Agreement is the best agreement we’ve got

For all its compromises and ambiguities, it is the only practicable means to hand of giving the province something approaching normalcy.

Profile: Arlene Foster, standing firm for Britain in Belfast

The DUP leader has not yet shown she knows how to make the strange machinery set up in Stormont work.