Daniel Hannan: Political clickbait is Fleet Street’s addiction, and the nation’s problem

The trend fuels harmful misrepresentations and myths. It might bring in ad revenue, but it harms the fabric of our democracy.

Chloe Westley: The reason the left want to ban me from TV is they fear they would lose a true battle of ideas

Socialist organisations have vastly more money and staff than those campaigning for lower taxes and smaller state, but they still cannot accept debate.

Iain Dale: Anti-semitism – and how Corbyn is vanishing into the deep pit he has dug for himself

Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?

Dear Conservative Party member, you are now an important person

The Prime Minister is set to lobby you about her new Brexit plan. Will she and Johnson be undertaking rival tours?

Iain Dale: May, the Eric Dier of Downing Street, steps up to take that fifth penalty

Plus: The Sports Minister speaks to a stranger on the tube. Phone-in callers back Universal Credit. And: It’s Coming Home, It’s Coming Home, It’s Coming Home…

Storm in a vodka glass

If overcome by the belief that Putin bought the referendum, our advice is to lie down in a dark room until the feeling goes away.

Peter Franklin: Physician, heal thyself; think tanks, re-think thyselves

Onward seems set to propound the liberal and Freer the libertarian versions of the globalist agenda. Where does that leave the anti-globalist voters who now back the Tories?

The best way to protect the freedom of the press would be to repeal Section 40 for good

Watson et al lost today, but they will inevitably return. The Government should honour its pledge to delete the preferred weapon against free expression.

WATCH: Wallace and Jones clash over the ‘hostile environment’ policy towards illegal immigration

“Are you seriously saying we should not have a system that checks whether people are legitimately in this country?” our Executive Editor asks the Guardian columnist.

Daniel Hannan: Like the Windrush children, EU nationals raised here have a moral right to UK citizenship

We must oppose illegal immigration. But making life harder for legitimate residents helps nobody.

To Diehard Remainers. You lost. Get over it. Drop the conspiracy theories – and stop assuming Leave voters are thick.

Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.

Nicky Morgan: Why this social mobility setback? Because the best brains in the Government are fixated on Brexit.

Too little attention is focused on the reasons why where you are born and your family background still matter far too much in modern Britain.

The Budget morning-after. The papers could be a lot worse for the Chancellor.

The FT has the balanced “Grim outlook overshadows housing drive” while the Times goes for “Hammond eases off austerity”. The i has “Hammond’s hard-hat budget”.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: MPs shouldn’t inject political bias into the university syllabus – but neither should academics

There is a legitimate question to be asked about whether UK universities have been fulfilling their duty to provide a model of reasoned discourse on Brexit.

Richard Graham: We failed to make the case for business in June. We must do so once again at Party Conference – and after.

Conservative values underpin what it can achieve – whether in apprenticeships, manufacturing exports, jobs or contributions to good causes.