Daniel Hannan: No matter how much Tusk might wish it, there will be no second referendum, and no cancellation of Brexit

A bit of romantic rhetoric from Brussels cannot change the fact that their only offers – before and after we voted Leave – have been provocatively unacceptable.

Rebecca Lowe: Keir Hardie’s lessons for Conservatives (and others)

And here we end, by reflecting on what he might have thought about Labour’s move away from the tenet of democratic government.

Peter Franklin: Ruling political tribes 1) Labour. How the Left came in from the wilderness and drove the Blairites out.

Since I last surveyed the political landscape in 2013 and 2014, some ruling tribes have been cast down, and some formerly lost tribes have risen to rule.

Alex Morton: Why the Tory tendency to bash our friends and back our enemies – for example, over student immigration numbers?

The Conservatives need to support genuine allies – such as savers, home owners, small businesses, and the armed forces.

Henry Newman: Recently, a Cabinet minister for ‘No Deal’ might have been helpful. Now, it would risk looking crass.

Adonis claims that morale Civil Service morale is in free fall. In fact, November’s Civil Service Survey showed staff engagement was up to its highest level since 2009.

Interview: Kemi Badenoch – “I’m not really left-leaning on anything…I always lean right instinctively”

She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”

Bernard Jenkin: So you want to know what the EU deal means? My advice is – find a good lawyer.

There is plenty of reason to check that the Government’s ones have been giving sound legal advice to ministers. Too often, it has been wrong.

John Penrose: Why we need a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Economically, it could be transformational, as it has been in Norway, which established its fund back in the early 1990s. It is now worth over a trillion dollars.

Interview: Jo Johnson condemns the hounding of vice-chancellors over their pay

The Universities Minister takes on Lord Adonis, and insists the new regulator will control pay by insisting on transparency and the right benchmarks.

Freeman is right about a new Policy Commission to prepare for the next election – complete with non-Tory members

The 1997 experience of Downing Street keeping the manifesto process to itself was unhappy. The Party needs to draw on wider talent to reinvent itself in government.

Book review: Gordon Brown has learned nothing and forgotten quite a bit

He never resolved his conflict between being brought up to repress his emotions and as a politician having to express them.

Past scandals show that Prime Ministers must uphold respectability – or are lost

But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.

Iain Dale: My listeners praised May for having the guts to do our phone-in. They were right.

All credit to her. She’s the first prime minister since Tony Blair to do one phone-in outside an election period. They always carry a slight risk for a politician.

James Elles: Oblivious to detail. Arrogant. Rash. Fearful of conflict. How Cameron wrecked Britain’s European dream.

I believe that there will be a growing clamour for any deal to be put by referendum to the British people before the final decision is taken.

Peter Marshall: We have to ask the question. Does the EU really want a deal?

I can say, with hand on humble heart, that I have never seen, or even heard of, a document so unconstructively negative as the Guidelines.