Therapy and the law. The technical considerations for the Government as it plans a conversion therapy ban.

Badenoch and the Prime Minister have called the proposed ban ‘complex’. Here’s why they did so.

Philip Mitchell and Chris Goddard: 2020 was a reality check on China. Trade offers opportunities for the UK to assert its values.

It allows for criticism and negotiation provided the West stands together to call out abuses.

John Macdonald: Are the Tories becoming the party of high taxes and picking industrial winners?

The second piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.

Iain Dale: Johnson can say all the right words. But not in a way that people relate to, as Blair and Cameron could.

Plus: Sturgeon is ridiculous to criticise the PM’s trip to Scotland. And: Now’s not the time for a Coronavirus inquiry.

Andrew Rosindell: How close we came to waking up in the backstop

If the Spartans hadn’t held out against the pleas of our colleagues then Britain would have been trapped in a customs union with no way out.

The Moggcast: Cummings has a “willingness to shake things up and sometimes things get too shaken”

Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism.

Nick Hillman: Three options for higher education. Less support for students, fewer of them – or else they pay more

If if the higher education sector must take some further pain in the spending review, then the last option is the least bad.

Johnson’s quiet shift to a more permissive migration policy

He is averse to using numbers as the main instrument of control – perhaps viewing them as an arbitrary measure of success.

Radical: Self-ID for transgendered people has been stopped for now. But the struggle for truth and sense continues.

Equivalent reform is being pursued in Scotland; in combination with its hate speech bill, this would be dangerously authoritarian.

Radical: While political leaders hide from confrontation, activists are winning the war on self-identification

In the weeks before recess, trans rights activists became more vocal in their efforts to stop Truss’s reform of the Gender Recognition Act.

David Lidington: My friend David Gauke is wrong. Liberal Tories should still feel at home in the Conservative Party.

Our electoral success has rested in large measure on an ability and willingness to adapt to the realities of social and economic change.

Radical: The BBC, Pink News and how, in reporting on the Gender Recognition Act, the media has shown shocking inaccuracy

Over the last few weeks, publications have routinely made errors in how they cover the GRA and JK Rowling. Readers must beware.

Roderick Crawford: There can be no role for the European Court in policing an EU trade agreement

Agreeing underlying principles, not getting an extension, is the key to reaching an agreement.

Johnny Luk: The Government must take on the mammoth challenge of health tech reform

Luckily, Hancock has recognised the need for change, which has been made more urgent by the Coronavirus.

Stephen Booth: Contrary to expectations, the UK may have the upper hand as Brexit negotiations intensify

With its objective being British sovereignty, Johnson’s government can justify economic disruption better than the EU.