The unknown names that live for evermore

These acts of remembrance may in some slight measure salve grief, and enable those who have not had to endure such things to give thanks for those who do.

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.

The Khashoggi case shows that the UK’s alliance with Saudi Arabia serves neither our interests nor our values

For how much longer can Ministers continue to try to defend a relationship which has become increasingly indefensible?

Patriots first and foremost. The post-war Tories who showed that it is usual in politics to be baffled and indecisive.

In his new book,Richard Ritchie tells the story of the Progress Trust, an influential group of Tory backbenchers set up during the Second World War.

May’s courage, as she dances on, is admirable

The Prime Minister lacks panache, but it takes guts to keep going. Leadership requires the fortitude to cope with being weak.

Nicky Morgan: We all gain when our politicians have some time and space to think

It is madness to think that our leaders aren’t entitled to go on holiday and gain a bit of perspective.

Garvan Walshe: Gove is setting himself up as Brexit’s Michael Collins

Not in the sense that he will be shot by his own side, but in his calculation that the best approach is to gain “the freedom to win freedom”.

Phillip Lee: Dear Sophie – don’t quit the Conservative Party, stay and fight against Brextremism

The former Justice Minister writes an open letter to a young activist, urging her to reconsider her defection to the Liberal Democrats.

Alistair Lexden: How the 1918 election paved the way to inter-war Conservative hegemony

Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.

Joe Baron: The campaign to tear down statues of British heroes is not about balance – it’s pure propaganda

It’s one thing to acknowledge the fact that all human beings are nuanced and flawed. It’s quite another to censor our past.

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

Profile: Henry Willink, the Conservative who proposed a National Health Service before Bevan created one

Yet the role of the Tories, under Churchill’s leadership, in the development of the NHS is today entirely forgotten, and so is his Health Minister’s contribution.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

Daniel Hannan: Farewell to Edward du Cann, the courtly Eurosceptic who helped propel Thatcher to power

Behind his languid exterior lay a man of unusual principle, to whom all Conservatives have cause to be grateful.

Outsiders are not always good, and governments are not always bad

The columnist Steve Richards examines the rise of the modern demagogues, and their eventual, inevitable failure.