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.

Allie Renison: “Remoaner”…“Brexit fanatic” – it’s time to stop wallowing in referendum divisions

As a former Eurosceptic turned Remainer, I have adjusted to the new reality. Others – pro- or anti-EU – should do the same.

WATCH: Ici Londres – The strangest idea in economics is celebrated by Daniel Hannan

Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage is 200 years old, but still often misunderstood.

May is far more comprehensible than the press will admit

Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.

Profile: Sajid Javid, whose quest to build more homes is also a fight for his political future

Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.

Daniel Hannan: May’s Brexit vision is Churchill’s vision of Britain and Europe

We will be an ally, not a member, of the United States of Europe.

Lewis Baston: How does Cameron shape up to the other Tory leaders who lasted for ten years or more?

Is he a Salisbury or a Baldwin, a Disraeli or a Thatcher?

Lewis Baston: When nationalists helped to pitch out a minority Conservative government. The general election of 1892.

Think of today’s two main parties led in 2015 by Nicholas Soames and Denis Healey and you are part of the way there.

Most defections make no difference

Those which turn out to matter usually involve more than the man who undertakes them. Does the latest one really fall into this category?

Daniel Hannan MEP: As Bashir signs up to the Conservatives, don’t knock defectors – whichever party they join or leave

The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.

Ten reasons why I won’t be joining UKIP

But the Conservatives need fundamental change.

Lewis Baston: The election that never happened – after the events of this month, a hundred years ago

What would the result have been of a 1914/15 poll – in a Britain that sometimes seemed to be on the verge of civil war?

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron gets away with drawing Miliband as Foot or Kinnock

The Speaker sounded like a petulant schoolmaster, but was right to try to restrain the Prime Minister.

Peter Batey: The life and times of Sir Edward Heath – whose former house has opened again to the public

Arundells, a beautiful early Georgian house nestling beneath the famous spire of Salisbury Cathedral, is open for guided tours.