Henry Hill: Gove’s Welsh intervention highlights the contradictions of devolution
Also: Nationalist conspiracy theorists target Armed Forces Day and the BBC as ground is laid for ‘establishment stitch-up’ narrative.
Stephen Tall: Cameron is doing his best to hold his party together, but it may not suffice
Would the Conservatives survive an EU In/Out Referendum in one piece?
Garvan Walshe: Will Merkel prick Putin’s Ukrainian Bubble?
There’s a parallel between the caution of the Governor of the Bank of England over interest rates and that of Germany’s Chancellor over sanctions.
Priti Patel MP: The transformation of the system – from welfare to work
Iain Duncan Smith is helping to turn lives round and Labour has nothing to offer.
Iain Dale: I won’t join those dancing on Coulson’s grave
Plus: Bad Suarez. Useless Obama. Kinnock, the new Miliband. And: Make the most of your mother while you still have time.
Isabel Oakeshott: The protection of children is vital. But we need a sense of proportion.
How can we have arrived at a point where every stranger, no matter what the circumstances, is treated as a potential threat?
Jerry Hayes: My time in Parliament – drunkenness, obscenity and Thatcher
Don’t get me wrong, Thatcher was a great Prime Minister. But, as my memoirs show, she sure lacked a sense of humour.
Greg Clark MP: The Chancellor, Warwickshire’s Izzi Seccombe, Coventry’s Ann Lucas – and the benefits of working together
The Chancellor praised senior Labour councillors on Monday. Conservative Warwickshire and Labour Coventry are also showing the benefits of working together.
Henry Hill: Welsh independent schools ditch devolved GCSE for English alternative
Also: Race equality campaigner quits Scottish Labour over ‘nepotistic’ candidate selection; and co-founder claims NI21 should be ‘put down’.
Garvan Walshe: Israel is starting to push its luck in the West Bank
It needs Mahmoud Abbas in place, and its response to the kidnapping of three teenagers threatens to weaken his position.
Charlotte Leslie MP: How my anger at Tony Blair helped to drive me into politics
Why does anyone at Westminster or elsewhere still give him the time of day?
Iain Dale: The reshuffle. Who should go up – and who’s at risk.
Plus: Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the – Aaarrrggghhh!
Brian Monteith: Why the Unionist parties have united behind greater devolution
It’s all about withholding the power for change from the nationalists. But the question is: will the public believe the Unionists’ promises?
Adrian Hilton: The importance of cultural self-belief
Understand our Judæo-Christian heritage and only then can you begin to understand every aspect of our culture and national history.
Henry Hill: Young Scots deliver fresh rebuke to Salmond’s manifest destiny
Also: NI21 civil war rages on; language activist warns of ‘death of Welsh’; and are the NI Tories being undermined to woo the DUP?