Henry Hill: Northern Ireland Assembly back to the brink over welfare reform

Also: Welsh Assembly in revolt over plans to increase members’ pay; and Carmichael at risk of recall for leaking Sturgeon’s Tory sympathies.

Garvan Walshe: False economy – the huge cost of ignoring foreign policy and defence

World order is valuable, and relatively cheap to maintain – but expensive and dangerous to re-establish once you sacrifice it.

Iain Dale: Woe, woe and thrice woe. The agony of the pollsters and pundits.

Plus: All praise, Lynton Crosby! Breibart – falling apart? The Daily Mail: Chappers out, Shippers back?

Graeme Archer: Sprayed with excrement, from passing trains

The gap between Labour “the party” and Labour, the people who believe communal effort can overcome want, has become far too vast.

Cameron confirms that Britain will vote as one nation on the EU

Also: General election could take fourth scalp as SDLP leader faces calls to quit; Scottish Greens plan surge; and Welsh call for EU poll to avoid Assembly election.

Rebecca Coulson: America should know better than to use the death penalty

It can be necessary to kill, in self-defence or war. But to do so after consideration with the potential victim under arrest? It’s an abuse of power.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: We’re already doing our bit on aid. Now other countries must do more.

In 2005, the then 15 members of the European Union agreed to reach a 0.7 per cent aid target by 2015. Apart from us only four EU countries have actually delivered.

Iain Dale: Sending Shapps to DfID is like sending Arsene Wenger to Colchester United

Plus: Well done, Tracey Crouch. Please leave Britain, Paul O’Grady. The delightful Matt Hancock. And lefty lies about champagne.

Graeme Archer: Trust me, I’m a statistician. And therefore precisely wrong.

A period of silence from the pollsters would be welcome. And maybe we should consider a period of poll-purdah before a national vote.

Daniel Hannan MEP: How the Left’s hatred devoured its own election campaign

Labour could have done better with a different leader and a different strategy. But its error was its usual one: to assume moral superiority

From Reggie to Dessie: Let’s raise a glass to the real architect of our victory – Nicola Sturgeon

So we are back at the Palace of Varieties with far more MPs than expected – and relatively few casualties.

Henry Hill: Are Cameron and Davidson set to clash over scrapping the Human Rights Act?

Also: Knives out for two more Labour leaders – Murphy in Scotland and Jones in Wales.

Garvan Walshe: Five steps to fix foreign policy

Free of Liberal Democrat pacifism, a majority Conservative Government can now act in the national interest.

Iain Dale: Credit to Crosby – we doubters have egg on our faces

Plus: Scotland is a problem of Labour’s own making. Dan Jarvis’s time has come. Prepare for a UKIP leadership bloodbath. And good riddance to Vince Cable!

Graeme Archer: Polling day, in three chapters

Two things to vote against, and one to vote for.