Why did the BBC broadcast untrue claims about ConservativeHome?

It’s sad enough to see a formerly serious historian disappear down the rabbit hole – but the Today Programme should challenge false claims from guests.

Amy Selman: How to be a campaigner and a governor – lessons from Johnson’s time as London’s mayor

Here’s both what his team did and how it communicated – deploying the discipline of the second to boost the first.

Trust in the BBC hasn’t collapsed – but it can’t afford to ignore the creeping rot of polarisation

Both sides must recognise that the Corporation as a whole can be performing well whilst its political coverage alienates Conservatives.

Britain moves nearer to a full quarantine. Now watch for the moves to isolate Johnson.

The perils and volatility that the Coronavirus – that ultimate leveller-down – brings with it suddenly endanger last year’s near-landslide winner.

James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.

The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.

Beware the Eye of Johnson

It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.

Iain Dale: Something has changed this week. Since May announced talks with Corbyn. I can smell it.

Plus: What would it take to get the Cabinet leavers to resign? Clarke’s Maastricht Treaty Customs Union moment. And: in defence of Robbie Gibb.

Let’s turn Railways Day into Scrap HS2 Day

“How would you feel if we spent the money on local transport links in the Midlands and the north?’’ Gove asked Conservative MPs last year.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: What has Oltep done to offend May?

The Prime Minister’s failure to talk about the dependence of the NHS on the economy is bizarre.

Iain Dale: May has recovered her position

Plus: investment increasing, Heseltine declining. Listen to Farage – especially if you disagree with him. And: Activate sounds like dermatological face cream.

Can UnHerd gain Moo-mentum?

Tim Montgomerie’s new project is big, bold, and imaginative. But how will a journal that doesn’t do news get cut-through? And will it really do so?

James Frayne: Can one tell in advance if a Minister will be culled in a reshuffle?

There is a handful of Ministers who unfortunately display two or three of these signs. They know who they are – and so does Theresa May.

Hands off the Daily Mail

The campaign against the paper is not so much about a headline last week, but about shifting the balance of media power to the left.