James Frayne: Why May needs two communications strategies running in tandem
Her relative quiet compares favourably to Cameron’s incessant commentary, but it’s not without cost.
Garvan Walshe: A good Brexit will be inspired by sex, not football
Trade negotiations aren’t a matter of one participant winning, but of two partners creating wealth together that they couldn’t make on their own.
Alex Morton: The Left builds third party support. If May can’t do so too, her government will fail.
Officials, advisers and Ministers will always need external expertise: what we need are conservative-minded experts.
Rebecca Coulson: Bullfighting. Barbaric butchery that should be banned? Or a popular tradition to be conserved?
Humans kill bulls intentionally, in the name of entertainment, whereas hounds kills foxes instinctively. Is that an important distinction?
Henry Hill: Davidson attacks as Labour and Lib Dems withdraw support for SNP
Also: Dugdale attacks Scottish Conservatives as the “Brexit party”; Welsh Tories attack Jones’ ‘snub’ to local airport; and more.
James Frayne: Creating a more contribution-based welfare system
The first in a new series of columns which focus on what Theresa May’s conservatism for “ordinary working people” could look like in practice.
Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: Article 50, parliamentary votes, Scotland – and the legalities of leaving
His debut column: answers to key questions.
Nadhim Zahawi: Apple’s tax and TTIP’s collapse both show why Britain was right to back Brexit
We were told that we needed the EU to get trade deals agreed that would help us. Now look at what’s happened.
Howard Flight: Burkinis, sharia, Muslim schools – and the need for assimilation
Schools in America do not teach religion, but culture and values instead.
Ashley Fox: Lower immigration and the single market. We can have our cake and eat it.
The starting point for our negotiations should be to retain full access to – but not membership of – the Single Market, while also taking full control of our borders.
Iain Dale: The unintended consequences of May’s unwillingness to court the media
Plus: Farewell, Tom Swarbrick. Labour’s woes. I doze. And: A truly disgusting story about a Liberal Democrat Coalition Minister.
Daniel Hannan: Repeat after me. Single market membership and single market access are not the same thing.
Of course we will sell to EU customers after Brexit. But there’s no reason to subject our whole economy to EU regulations.
Henry Hill: Davidson savages Corbyn’s IRA sympathies
Also: Davies warns Welsh Assembly could be ‘swept away’; Brown bids to unpick the UK; SNP under pressure on finances and education; and more.
Andrew Kennedy: What Denis Thatcher said about my car. And other things that shouldn’t happen to an agent.
Alternative Bank Holiday fare to more on Corbyn and Momentum.
Iain Dale: Short-tempered Corbyn’s mask is slipping
Plus: Will diehard Remainers never learn how democracy works? Nicolas Sarkozy is a sh*t. And, wonder of wonders, a right wing BBC audience.