WATCH: Manchester’s Chief Constable – “Currently, we have 19 people confirmed to have lost their lives, and around 50 casualties”

“We are currently treating this attack as a terrorist incident until we have further information.”

Mike Freer: Britain can no longer ignore Iran’s abuse of human rights

Engagement and commercial benefits must not be sought at any price, lest we hand the region and our own citizens over to fanatics.

Take Corbyn’s “tribute” to Prince Philip with a pinch of salt

The Labour leader’s years of indulging the IRA, who murdered the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, should not be forgotten.

Nadhim Zahawi: Labour MPs know that Corbyn is weak on defence, Trident and our enemies. So how on earth can they support him?

Many have already described why he is unfit for the job. Indeed, many have tried to remove him. Their support now is a joke, a delusion, a denial of reality.

David Ward. Jenny Tonge. Time and again the Lib Dems fail to stamp out anti-semitism in their ranks.

In 2014 we asked “What does David Ward have to do to get kicked out of the Lib Dems?” Three years on, he has been reselected as a candidate for Farron’s party.

Martin Parsons: For Syria to have a future, the West must stop jihadist genocide as well as Assad’s war crimes

Action must go beyond ISIS to prevent other, similarly-minded, jihadist groups prospering.

Syria. Conservative MPs should reserve their options – and ring the whips

They will be asking themselves if they want to sign a blank cheque for an American President whose foreign policy is so impulsive and apparently ill thought through.

Britain must not be drawn into the civil war in Syria

Let’s hope that Trump’s missile strikes on the Assad regime work. But May and her government must be a force for restraint if they don’t.

The Brexit negotiation – and why the importance of tariff-free trade has been over-hyped

The Government must try to build from the essentials out – security, legal certainty, frictionless trade. Zero tariffs would be the icing on the cake.

What social media should do, can’t do – and shouldn’t be asked to do in the fight against ISIS

The companies are on solid ground over encryption; their footing is less sure, however, when it comes to pro-terror material on the net.

Ed Barker: Don’t glamourise these killers by calling them terrorists. Treat them like the criminals they are.

People that stab policeman and run over innocent civilians are murderous thugs – and that’s the end of it.

WATCH: Rudd calls for ‘back door’ into commercial encryption

“You can’t have a situation where warranted information is needed, perhaps to stop an attack like the one last week, and it can’t be accessed.”

The middle class converts to Islamist extremism who want to murder us

Khalid Masood, who murdered PC Keith Palmer, turns out to be one – and was originally called Adrian Elms.

Mohammed Amin: Preventing terrorism is your responsibility

Politicians like Geert Wilders who want to ban the Quran and who treat all Muslims as “the enemy within” are doing ISIS’s work for them.

Iain Dale: In which Tim Shipman and I fight off Chinese spies

Plus: Dealing with news of terror attacks as a radio host. Was it really necessary to send Steve Uncles to prison. And: Jacqui Smith and Sky – its goodbye from me and its goodbye from her.