Commentaries

Will the covid inquiry let chaos obscure the real lessons? The NHS and all institutions should announce now necessary reforms.

The horror of Hamas and all sponsors of terror and antisemitism must be overcome, with a peaceful home found for innocent Palestinians.

UK taxpayers cannot afford to meet the endless demands for more Government funding. Cultural change and private money are needed.

Europe’s strategic failures to take defence seriously, preferring to let the USA be its guardian, could cost Ukraine its freedom.

Treating net zero targets as gospel creates unnecessary dangerous division. Pragmatism, flexibility and affordability enlist public support.

Sub-postmasters lives ruined, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned and bankrupted. A scandalous injustice drags on.

“Mother” and “Woman” become unacceptable terms to the UK’s executive medical masters. A lost plot?

Migration is an existential threat to Europe and intractable unless conflicts and corruption in Africa and the Middle East are resolved.

Inclusiveness is being abused. Should fundamental British Values be a universal moderator of virtue extremism?

Simply stewed, plums become jewel-like and the juice they produce, deep in colour and flavour, is a luscious nectar.