Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: Beneath the rhetoric, the EU27 are being surprisingly constructive

In Tusk’s draft negotiating mandate, the seeds of a deal can already be found.

Howard Flight: The Government must end this campaign against the self-reliant

By scrambling to protect traditional revenues from a changing economy, the Treasury is sending entirely the wrong economic signals.

Nadhim Zahawi: Apprenticeships – a crowning achivement of this Government’s work

You may well hear grumbling from businesses about the levy which will help to fund them – but the effort will be worth it.

Iain Dale: May moves Article 50 – and the BBC plunges into a period of national mourning

Plus: May’s legs, Starmer’s hair, Sturgeon’s legs, Warsi the enemy within, Carswell the rebel without, pigs may fly in Dumfries. And: A Rudd-faced Home Secretary.

Graeme Archer: The great university mis-selling scandal

The uncomfortable question is this: has the push for expansion altered the nature of these institutions? If not, why do they tolerate jaw-dropping illiberality?

James Frayne: Did Cameron and Osborne push the case for Uber? Let’s hope so.

Ultimately, happiness derives from things outside the state’s control. To the extent they can, politicians should encourage businesses that deliver them.

Daniel Hannan: A century since the Communists began their mass slaughter, some still have not learned the lessons

Is it truly necessary to keep reciting these arguments? Sadly, yes – in each generation some people are drawn to brutal ideologies.

Henry Hill: Brokenshire threatens direct rule if no deal reached in Ulster

Also: why the Prime Minister is playing for time on a second Scottish independence referendum; and veteran Welsh MP says her support for devolution ‘a mistake’.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why government should focus on reducing poverty – not increasing equality

Arguments for interfering further, or differently, with the pie, therefore, should be based primarily on need rather than on redistribution.

Andrew Kennedy: How to select better candidates for local elections

Too often, I fear we take the line of least resistance because it is easier than the alternative.

James Frayne: The Government should borrow one of Trump’s ideas

The Office of American Innovation might never get going, given Trump’s chaotic style, but the concept is a good one.

Iain Duncan Smith: My personal journey to Brexit

Maastricht made it clear that the EU was leaving the UK, preferring to become a superstate. We could never agree to such a project.

Nicky Morgan: It’s time to focus on white working-class boys – whose needs are neglected in too many schools

Low aspirational parenting and teaching are key problems.

Iain Dale: In which Tim Shipman and I fight off Chinese spies

Plus: Dealing with news of terror attacks as a radio host. Was it really necessary to send Steve Uncles to prison. And: Jacqui Smith and Sky – its goodbye from me and its goodbye from her.

James Frayne: May needs a replacement for Osborne the modernist

His time as an MP is surely coming to an end, but Conservatives will miss the former Chancellor’s enthusiasm for technology and global competitiveness.