Local elections in depth: Oldham voters punish Labour for “wokeness”

We continue our series, putting this year’s local elections under the magnifying glass to find changes and trends.

Sarah Ingham: Social inequality can’t be fixed by erasing Britain’s history

It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.

“Levelling up works for the whole country” – the Prime Minister’s conference speech in full

“It takes the pressure off parts of the overheating South East while offering hope and opportunity to those areas that have felt left behind.”

Ryan Henson: The challenges facing the UK and our new Foreign Secretary

Truss must ensure Britain remains a global leader in development, as well as in defence and diplomacy.

David Lidington: There’s no alternative to our American alliance. But we also need a new strategic relationship with our European allies.

A lot can be done through NATO structures like the Northern Group that brings together its members and partner countries.

Mark Francois: Tempting though it may be to stage one, Johnson should avoid a Love Actually moment with Biden

European defence budgets only go so far, and ultimately we need the Anglo-American link.

Profile: Penny Mordaunt. Ambitious, socially liberal, sacked, then rehabilitated, restive, military-flavoured – and on manoeuvres.

In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.

Emily Carver: So the European Super League has collapsed. But either way, it’s none of the Government’s business.

The lesson of this drama is that fans must make their voices heard, rather than Ministers threaten knee-jerk legislation.

Lewis Feilder: UK laws haven’t been strong enough to protect memorials. But all of that is about to change.

The maximum sentence of imprisonment will now be ten years’ imprisonment, reflecting the severity of the nature of the crime.

From Walpole to Johnson, the rude, original vigour of the Prime Minister and the Commons have survived

A new study by Anthony Seldon of the office of Prime Minister gives too little credit to the many among its 55 holders whom he dismisses as failures.

How to advise Lord North, or Heath, or Thatcher, or Johnson

A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.

Profile: George Galloway, who “is going to vote for Beelzebub, I’m going to vote for a Scottish Tory”

This old-style socialist turns out to be much more of a small-c conservative than his many critics are willing to admit.

Profile: Tony Blair. Zealous, unrepentant and driven – the leader who took us to war in Iraq is reborn as our saviour from the pandemic.

It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?

Oborne condemns Johnson as a liar – and cannot understand why many voters believe the Prime Minister is telling the truth

This book exemplifies the addiction to indignant moralising which blinds so many political commentators to the true nature of their own country.

Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too

Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.