Garvan Walshe: McGuinness – a planner and executor, we should remember today, of attacks on our democracy
Every such criminal claims to have been “driven” to violence. Their excuses must not be indulged.
Henry Hill: Davidson tells Greens to honour their own manifesto, not the SNP’s
Also: Jones calls for grand council to create a federalist vision for Labour, and Government rebuffs Irish leader over Ulster comments.
Alex Morton: May needs expert ministers who are also storytellers
Politics requires both action and explanation.
James Frayne: Right or wrong, most people bitterly oppose MPs having “second jobs”
If politicians will create a big, interventionist state, then voters will expect them to manage it on a full-time basis.
Christopher Howarth: Sturgeon’s vanishing independence options. There would be no automatic EU or EEA membership for Scotland.
A curious alignment of remainer Unionists and Scottish nationalists was convinced that Brexit would cause the end of the UK. Fortunately, they were wrong.
Nadhim Zahawi: An independence referendum on the SNP’s timetable wouldn’t be fair to Scotland. But they don’t care.
We cannot have a vote when all that is known is what legal deal has been agreed.
Graeme Archer: It’s my union that Sturgeon is messing with
A third-rate leader like her – who can’t even run her schools properly – wants to make me a foreigner to my other half, and turn my home into “abroad”.
Iain Dale: The election expenses allegations – and the mysterious absence of Feldman
Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?
Lord Ashcroft: My online interview with Dame Vera Lynn, on the cusp of her hundredth birthday
“It is wonderful that you are releasing an album on March 17 to mark your 100th birthday. Why have you decided to do this?”
James Frayne: May should make more of her family-friendly policies
And there are other policies she could pursue. More nurseries in primary schools. Tougher school discipline. Longer sentences for child abuse.
Daniel Hannan: Brussels, not May, is being inflexible
It was this very same attitude on the part of the EU that caused us to vote Leave in the first place.
Chris Grayling: Why the route to progress is local
A winding road through the Cumbria countryside helps to show, with many others like it, that small improvements can help make big things happen.
Rebecca Lowe Coulson: The rights and wrongs of eating meat
It’s possible to accept all the arguments suggesting that it’s sensible for us to do so – but still feel morally queasy.
Andrew Kennedy: How an Association turned from a loser into a winner
The story of Chatham & Aylesford, establishing priorities, sticking to them – and teamwork.
James Frayne: After Article 50 is moved, fasten your seat-belts
Everyone needs to be prepared for the hugely difficult times that we now face.