Iain Dale: Biden has neither the imagination nor energy to heal his tearful nation

Plus: What I discovered when I interviewed James Comey. And why I can’t think of a single interesting anecdote or conclusion from Tim Sainsbury’s memoir.

Henry Hill: MSPs concerned that Scottish Government spent tens of thousands ‘preparing’ witnesses

Also: Johnson and Gove set to meet to plot their pro-Union strategy as a Tory MSP defends to Nigel Farage’s new party.

Garvan Walshe: Conservatives need to choose. Are they with democracy or with the Capitol terrorists?

The main issue is not that the latter’s actions are extreme, but that they’re anti-constitutional.

Robert Halfon: The levelling-up ladder risks being knocked away by Covid-inspired decisions on education

Children’s opportunities in life will suffer as a result of school closures – and there still hasn’t been much data to explain why they were needed.

Andy Street: The big opportunity for the West Midlands in the small print of the EU deal

The ‘rules of origin’ requirements give us a chance to reshore much of the supply chain – and the skilled jobs it creates – for our automotive industry.

Neil O’Brien: Trumpism in Britain. It’s time to call out those in the media who cynically feed the cranks, rioters and conspiracists.

One of our best selling papers recently ran a piece promoting the views of an “NHS worker” who claimed hospitals were “empty” and Covid was a “hoax”.

Iain Dale: The social media companies claim that they aren’t publishers. But their ban on the President proves that they are.

Plus: Biden won fair and square, Trump’s allegations of fraud have been dismissed by the courts – and one can be a conservative and say so.

Henry Hill: Johnson suggests 40-year wait for the next Scottish independence vote

Also: civil servant at heart of Salmond fiasco set for retirement windfall; Foster threatened by loyalist terrorist; and Bogdanor attacks federalist folly.

Ryan Bourne: Ministers must speed up the pace of vaccination. Here are some ways of doing so.

Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect. 

Daniel Hannan: Britain is skint – so we should use our post-EU freedom to grow ourselves out of this mess.

It may sound obvious, even trite, but it’s the only way out. The primary purpose of economic policy for the next five years should be to generate revenue.

James Frayne: Migration control, NHS spending, boosting growth – and a reworked foreign policy. Four post-Brexit priorities for Johnson.

The Prime Minister’s Leave campaign promised that things would be better when we left the EU. So he must therefore prove it.

Howard Flight: The halfway house we should build for our farmers post-Brexit

We should aim for relative free trade in areas where we compete strongly, and subsidies for parts of our food and agricultural industry which need support.

Richard Holden: The SNP and their Strasbourg Syndrome

They screech in horror about a delay in total control of our own fisheries, but push for them to be handed back to the supertrawlers of the EU’s fishing fleets.

Richard Holden: Levelling up – 70 years late. The 1950s Labour plan that didn’t deliver improvements we’re campaigning for now.

To my astonishment, the Toft Hill Bypass is there on page 134c – undelivered during over half a century of local Labour dominance.

David Gauke: Whether there’s a deal or none, Brexit still will not be done

If there’s a deal, some will argue for a closer relationship. Others will argue that, having come so far, we must go further in disentangling ourselves.