Enver Solomon and Sunder Katwala: Refugees mark 70 years of UK sanctuary

We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.

Profile: Priti Patel, who promises to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats

It is harder for liberal critics to impute racism, or undue severity, to a Home Secretary who herself belongs to an ethnic minority.

Paul Mercer: As a frequent flyer, I’ve seen the issues with the red list for travel – which may even increase Covid transmission

In some cases, officials seem confused around the rules, which one said change virtually every day.

Narinder Singh: Race-shaming. The baiting by the Left of Mirza, Javid and Patel – simply for daring to be Conservatives.

Some seem to believes that they have a right to own the support of ethnic minority voters. Which they don’t.

Bob Seely: While we are distracted by Covid-19, China prepares to seize Hong Kong – and crush freedom

We must now change the status of these passports to allow Hong Kong BNOs a quicker path to full UK citizenship.

Neil O’Brien: Bullying, hostage taking, censorship, bribery. How China is dealing with its critics abroad.

Economically and politically, Beijing takes advantage of asymmetric openness: we’re open to them, but they are not to us.

Lord Ashcroft: An open letter to Alok Sharma, the new International Development Secretary

We should measure the success of our aid programmes by the good we achieve, not simply by the amount of money we spend.

Garvan Walshe: One hundred years on, the Balfour Declaration casts a shadow on Catalonia

Self-determination always involves conflict. In some cases that is justified, a conflict of necessity. In others it is not.

Daniel Hannan: Uganda shows the power of the free market in action

A comparison with its neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is stark.

Carswell scorned the old politics. Now it takes its revenge.

If he wants to rejoin the Conservatives, he should be readmitted. But that’s not to say that he should be the candidate in Clacton in 2020.

Nigel Evans: I support the Government’s aid target. But we risk it being abandoned unless spending is reformed.

Unless we sort out the problems right now, then I fear it is a battle I will lose.

Daniel Gibbs: Margaret Thatcher, environmentalist

She had a profound impact on the ownership, focus and language of the debate about climate change and global warming.

Daniel Hannan: 2015 was the best year in human history, and 2016 will be better yet

Whether we measure literacy or longevity, infant mortality or sexual equality, the world in 2015 was a better place during this past twelve months.