KEMI BADENOCH: Unions want to undo all the work we have done in the last 14 years

A well-functioning economy is one that finds the right balance between employees and employers. The right to strike must be balanced by our rights to go about our lives safely, without being put at risk.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: At last, real hope migration will fall

Slashing annual net migration by more than half a million would be a monumental achievement and a godsend to the Government in the run-up to the election.

DANIEL HANNAN: If our civil servants were firing on all cylinders then rainbow lanyards might be a harmless indulgence. But this obsessive wokery makes them worse at their jobs

At some point in 2021, civil servants routinely began to add their preferred pronouns to their email signatures.

My companions had enough gold rope to moor a carrier (should it not be in dry dock): QUENTIN LETTS watches First Sea Lord launch himself into new world

To glittering Lancaster House, near Buckingham Palace , for the First Sea Lord's sea power conference.

CRAIG BROWN: Chipolatas at the ready, it's barbecue time

As summer beckons, our award-winning chef Sue Flay offers her top tips for the summer barbecue.

STEPHEN GLOVER: If they were GPs, Keir would give you six months to live and wouldn't make his mind up on treatment. Rishi would admit the last op was botched but - great news! - you DO have a future

STEPHEN GLOVER: Rishi Sunak (pictured) was probably exaggerating when he said in his speech yesterday that 'more will change in the next five years than in the last 30'.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: While the King's doctors express gratification at his progress, they are concerned about his determination to take on so many engagements

In the next six weeks events King Charles wants to attend include the Chelsea Flower Show, Trooping the Colour, Garter Day, Royal Ascot and the state visit by the Emperor of Japan.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: First councils charge you to park outside your house, now Labour want to tax you for sitting in your garden

The Labour government in Wales is deploying satellites to spy on homeowners suspected of having large gardens, so they can be hit with higher council tax bills.

Transport Minister Simeon Brown goes into bat with Mayor Wayne Brown over parking charges in Auckland CBD

Simeon Brown agrees with the mayor for greater accountability of AT.

SARAH VINE: My despair at Greta Thunberg and the insanity of her army of hate pixies protesting against silly, kitsch Eurovision

The older I get, the more I think that humans - as a species - are becoming increasingly bonkers. If not all, then quite a lot of them.

The tragic fate of the family behind the ‘dress that broke the internet’

The man behind 'that' dress has now pleaded guilty to endangering his wife’s life.

PETER HITCHENS: 'How many kids did you kill today?' Megaphone Woman yelled from the Gaza protest in Oxford. 'None at all,' I'd have replied - if only she'd let me speak

A human wall of Gaza protesters has formed around me in a sort of horseshoe, and they are trying to make me go away, by sheer volume.

ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's new Wonder Force to stop the boats sounds like something out of James Bond. But everything he's promising to do has already been tried and found wanting

ANDREW NEIL: So, now we know, at last, how Labour would stop the small boats coming across the Channel with their human cargo of illegal migrants.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Why do Lazy Left trash our economy?

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: If Rachel Reeves and her Labour colleagues were honest, they would acknowledge that the UK economy appears to be firmly on the mend.

BORIS JOHNSON: The inspirational teacher who transformed the lives of so many deprived children - and whose life's work shames Starmer and the Left's vindictive hatred of aspiration

This week I went to a packed church to say farewell to a great man. He was Ray Lewis, 61, my former deputy mayor of London, ex-priest - and one of the most inspiring teachers I have ever seen.

SARAH VINE: Coarse and mouthy she may be, but Gemma Collins has something most celebrities lack: authenticity... and fantastically staunch views on benefit culture

There is something about Gemma Collins 's use - or misuse, as some have categorised it - of the word 'hermaphrodite' that makes me warm to this self-styled Essex 'Del-Girl'.

TOM UTLEY: He enjoys his mother's home cooking and the freedom of the fridge. But, call me an idiot, I can't bring myself to charge my 30-year-old son rent

A colleague tells me that when she was 30 she went on a date with a man of her age. When she asked him where he lived, he replied he lived at home with his mother, and she gave him a quizzical look.

NANA AKUA: Our seedy Eurovision entry that simulates a sex act in a toilet makes me embarrassed to be British

Five half-naked men simulating sex acts in a grotty, neon-lit lavatory. No, this is not the scene in some seedy Berlin brothel, but the UK entry to the 2024 Eurovision song contest.

If voting in local elections changes anything - the only way is Essex

While all eyes were focused on the pro-Hamas headbanger elected in Leeds, a quieter revolution was taking place elsewhere.

ANDREW PIERCE: How can Labour now welcome the MP Rachel Reeves once told to 'f*** off'?

She released a mocked-up picture of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer standing beside a door bearing a 'Welcome' sign, which opened on to a beach in her constituency.

MARK ALMOND: Everyone wants peace in Gaza, but if Israel doesn't finish the job and wipe out Hamas, the bloodshed will never be stopped

Viewed well over a million times on social media since Tuesday, the recording of a stand-off between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian father is bone-chilling.