We need to start listening to the right people – not hopeless people who get it wrong time and again, but face zero accountability.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
Plus: After the kidnapping of this Christian girl, we should cut off aid to Pakistan. And: Muslims must face up the fact that terror is claimed in their name.
After the beheading of Samuel Paty, there are huge questions for the president as to how he can prevent such an atrocious crime again.
From curfews to alcohol bans, leaders across the continent are increasingly unified in their choice of measures.
Tensions have been building for the best part of a year, serious skirmishes broke out in June – and America is nowhere to be seen.
We wouldn’t want constraints on free speech imposed on the basis of opaque agreements between platforms and politicians.
If he is to take the necessary steps to get a Brexit deal (and I hope he does), he is going to have to defy those instincts on a second issue, too.
The Government’s cost-benefit analysis showed that the impacts of the lockdown were greater than those of the direct Covid-19 deaths.
If we follow Spain and France, and test and trace doesn’t improve, the mood on the Tory backbenches is likely to shift towards a Sweden-style solution.
The Chancellor has ruled out extending furlough. Perhaps German and French schemes will provide his next source of inspiration.
The Government’s approach has been modelled on the country, even though its cases have continued to rise.
We should have supported an extension to the conventional arms embargo at the United Nations in August – and must back sanctions.