Garvan Walshe: Arm the Kurds – before it’s too late
Right now the aims of our policy are necessarily limited: arm Kurdistan, secure Jordan, prevent the relatively moderate rebels in Syria from being entirely overrun.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: The success of our United Kingdom holds lessons for uniting Iraq
Share power. Share wealth. Embrace an entity bigger than your own ethnicity. The United Kingdom is an example to follow.
Iain Dale: The Zionism I’m proud to believe in
Plus: Hague, Hammond and the handling of Warsi. Able Joyce Anelay. Overlooked Rob Wilson. And: Ed Miliband – great company. I like him.
Lewis Baston: The summer of 1989 – the year, a quarter of a century ago, that saw the world recast
The Iron Curtain crumbled in Eastern Europe. De Klerk took power in South Africa. The birth of the internet loomed…and the beginning of the end loomed for Mrs Thatcher.
Confessions of a sex criminal (according to the PSNI)
I worry for the home lives of modern puritans, prohibitors and the permanently offended.
Henry Hill: Father of Dunblane victim attacks SNP drive for armed police
Also: Villiers’ proposal on parades dispute ‘sunk’ by nationalists; new complaints regulator needed to combat NHS ‘defensiveness’ in Wales.
Garvan Walshe: It’s not enough to grieve for Gaza’s dead.
To claim that Israel can to claim that it can through its own actions end this war is to abdicate the responsibility to deal with the world as we find it.
Charlotte Leslie MP: When competition and privatisation work – and when they don’t
Labour screech about a so-called ‘privatisation of the NHS’ – but it is one which they energetically began.
Lord Flight: Retrospective, arbitrary, unfair. Problems with the Finance Act
There is a significant possibility of HMRC being taken to Court, and of judicial reviews in which the judges may find against it.
Alistair Burt MP: Reshuffles would work better if we learned from football transfer season
The departure of of Suarez from Liverpool is more understandable than that of Damian Green, Nick Hurd or Dominic Grieve.
Peter Hoskin: Legislators through a lens
Hollywood filmmakers have started bringing their cameras into Parliament. Why didn’t they before? Rules and dramatic aspirations.
Iain Dale: Miliband’s battle of Hastings
And: Who would answer war’s call today? Cook-ing with Willetts. Winning medals in the EU Games. Plus: outrageous MPs.
Graeme Archer: The stranger at my shoulder
We should screw up our courage and state the values Britain expects of its citizens. It isn’t hard.
Brian Monteith: Why the Scottish nationalists are resorting to political bribery
Salmond promises cash he doesn’t have because his strategy is coming unstuck.
Henry Hill: UN claims barring National Crime Agency from Ulster ‘put children at risk’
Also: Welsh Tory leader denies blackmail ‘cover up’; Sinn Fein accused of intimidating businesses over Gaza; and Ann Clwyd reconsiders retirement.