Sarah Ingham: Why is so much art in Britain’s public realm either ugly, witless or pointless?

Too often councillors are cheerleaders-in-chief for incongruous cultural blots on our landscapes.

Gary Powell: Why flying the right rainbow flag matters

The version with a super-imposed triangular design celebrates hard-line transgender ideology.

Leading Conservative councils are withdrawing their support for Stonewall

Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Wiltshire have cut off funding. Some Labour councils have also pulled out.

Why is Surrey County Council still funding Stonewall?

The group founded to campaign for gay rights has become a threat to women, children, and to free speech.

Emma Ware: Election campaign lessons from Epsom

Sworn at by the crazy bagpipe cat lady of Langley Vale. Rain. People still moaning about Brexit. Lost by nine votes. But no regrets.

Angela Richardson: Lessons from our local election defeats in Surrey

New housing must strengthen, not undermine a sense of community. Guildford residents don’t want the sort of tower blocks seen in Woking.

Daniel Hannan: Super Thursday’s results weren’t a victory for conservatism, but for our leader: Brexity Jezza

With economics, sleaze and environmentalism off the table, Labour is only left with the culture wars to fight the Tories on.

Darren Grimes: Johnson must face down the teaching unions with Thatcher-like resolve

The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.

Clearing up litter is integral to regaining our civic pride

What does it say for our patriotic endeavour that so many of our fellow citizens are literally rubbishing our country?

James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

Sunder Katwala: The Conservatives, ethnic minority voters, and the election. Next to no progress.

Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.

The local elections revisited: An analysis of results in the South East

It is easy to conclude that the Conservatives were the biggest losers. The question of who won is more complicated.

Daniel Hannan: May must stand down as Party leader before the European elections

Staying on would be a tragedy for the Conservative Party, which could very well cease to be viable as a party of government.

State land banking: The Ministry of Defence owns 553,000 acres

That is bigger than the size of Surrey. The MOD also holds “rights” to another half a million acres.

Next year, council tax increases of up to six per cent will be allowed without a referendum

This weakening of local accountability makes it all the more important for Conservatives to offer voters a clear alternative.