Syed Kamall: People in Brussels expect a Brexit deal will be struck, but fear time is running out

Meanwhile, my ECR colleagues and I continue to push for a sensible, nation-led approach to tackling the migration crisis.

Garvan Walshe: The world sorely needs militant democrats

McCain knew that politics should be a fierce contest, restrained by respect for civilians and one’s enemies.

Garvan Walshe: Next week’s NATO summit will be a crucial test of the Trump Doctrine: pay up, or you’re on your own.

Though by demanding that America’s allies spend more on their own defence, the President is unwittingly doing us a favour.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

Alex Morton: It’s time to turn the Department for International Development into a Department for Humanitarian Relief

At a time when austerity continues, we need to be explain that we are not wasting taxpayers’ money on a grand delusion that we can create prosperity.

Young Labour’s anti-NATO policy is stuffed full of bogus, ahistorical nonsense

The future leaders of the Left either don’t know their history, or prefer a made-up version of it.

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.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why the case for nuclear deterrence needs to be made all over again

This is important not only because without arguments we are weak in the face of our adversaries, such as Corbyn, but also because we must keep checking that we’re right.

Daniel Hannan: Don’t let Labour muck it up

Deep down, Corbyn regrets the outcome of the Cold War. Even now, when the full horror of its legacy is clear, he can’t bring himself to renounce Marxism.

Isabel Oakeshott: By urging that private schools pay VAT, Gove spurred Labour’s new attack on the middle class

While it is no surprise that the current party leadership has leapt at his new idea, neither the moral nor the economic arguments stack up.

Alastair Harper: May’s passion for ending modern slavery – and what should be done next

We will now see the creation of the first task force on modern slavery. Here are further ways for the task force to make progress.

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.

Iain Dale: Syrian Refugees – here’s what a true Compassionate Conservative would do

I’m not embarrassed to say that when I saw that picture of the four year old boy who drowned and was washed up on a Turkish beach I shed a tear.

Garvan Walshe: Japan and Vietnam cut up rough over China’s salami-slicing

The philosophy of expansion, slice by slice, assumes that democratic countries will balk at responding to all but the most blatant of provocations.

Garvan Walshe: The mining disaster that may end Erdogan’s presidential ambitions

His security men gave the miners’ relatives the treatment previously reserved for the decadent “alcoholics” and “homosexuals” of GeziPark.