Sarah Ingham: After the Batley protests and on this Easter Saturday, a case for tolerating religious belief

In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.

Race and disparities. A report so commonsensical but consensus-challenging that we’re surprised it was allowed to happen.

We’re about to find out whether the Commission’s work marks a turning-point for the zeitgiest, policy – and attitudes to the Tories.

John Bald: Yes, Jess Phillips. Ministers indeed dropped the ball on sexual violence. Under Labour.

A casualty of its changes in government was a confidential questionnaire for pupils – given out and collected by inspectors.

Nick Gibb: Education after Covid. We must not let the pandemic lead us astray from our mission to raise school standards.

The Schools’ Minister responds to our series this week – and says that some are pushing for a reheated agenda which would take this country back decades.

Mark Lehain: Education after the pandemic. Keep calm – and carry on as we were.

The third in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.

Jonathan Simons: Let’s build on the education reforms we worked for – not tear them down

The first in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.

The Budget should be a big reset moment for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. It risks being lost amidst a rush to tax rises.

It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.

Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”

But as ever, trying to make out a consensus position is like trying to pick out a tune when a drunk pianist is playing a broken piano.

Robert Halfon: Let’s extend the school day to help children catch up after Covid – and civil society can step in

Organisations should be invited in, to offer pupils professional mental health support, as well as sports activities and academic catch-up tuition.

100,000 dead

It’s a terrible milestone and Ministers throughout the UK will be blamed. How could our governments and administrations do better next time?

Robert Halfon: I’m not a lockdown sceptic. But I am a “school-down” sceptic – and fear the impact of these closures.

The Government needs to provide an educational route map out of Coronavirus for schools and colleges – so that they can prepare.

How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

Responding to Rashford

Until Ministers have a clear direction in which to steer the ship of anti-poverty policy, they will be at the mercy of the passengers.

WATCH: The Education Secretary confirms that GCSE and A-level exams will not take place this year

There will be “a form of teacher assessed grades…this year we’re going to put our trust in teachers rather than algorithms”.

Johnson’s position is stronger than it looks

The sense that he hates the whole business is helping to carry him through it – for all the mistakes that have been made.