After closely observing the Swedish model of conscription, upon which Rishi Sunak's plan for national service is said to be based, it seems to have many pluses, writes DAVID JONES.
Nerve, cheek, chutzpah, call it what you will: Sir Keir Starmer has demonstrated that, for all the criticism of his woodenness, he has this particular political prerequisite in abundance.
ROSS CLARK: Why on earth do we repeatedly sell off our public utilities to private interests and expect anything other than for them to be loaded with debt while investors feast off their assets?
ANDREW PIERCE: Two former Tory chairmen are warning the party is making a mistake by pressing ahead with its summer gala at the exclusive Hurlingham Club.
Nick Robinson is of course a very grand person, BBC aristocracy. And we should all treat him with immense respect. But he turned up for his meeting with Mr Sunak in an open-necked shirt.
The Traveller's Rest pub. formally reopened last June. 'Rishi was very good,' barmaid Clare remembers. 'He spent time with everyone. He was one of the first here, and the last to leave.'
The most regular criticism of Keir Starmer is that he is a 'political robot', more boring than former PM John Major or, horror of horrors, even Theresa May.
OK, let's suppose for a moment that these polls are right, and that election night really is going to be a total bloodbath for the Conservatives , and that Keir Starmer gets a bigger majority than Tony Blair in 1997.
As I listened to Sir Keir Starmer's speech yesterday, I asked myself how long it will take the country to hate Labour as much as it now hates the Tories.
Would Britain have done better to stay out of the Second World War? Ian Gribbin, the Reform party candidate for Bexhill and Battle, certainly thought so as recently as July 2022.
Wes Streeting and me. We go back a long way. We go back nearly fifteen years, me and Wes, so we do. We have never met yet still here we are trapped as one.
It's never been easy to be young. Feelings of rebellion are normal when young bodies change and minds develop. It can be a painful process of slammed doors, shouting and sullen silence.
DR GABRIELA BORZ, a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, has analysed the situation across the continent for MailOnline to look at the key geopolitical issues moving forward.
Will the rise of the hard-Right in Europe lead progressives to question their conviction that civilisation thrives south of Calais, whereas Brexit Britain is narrow and inward-looking?
No service of thanksgiving is planned. It is a celebration which is about to pass Britain by - which is odd given that this is one anniversary which was made for raising a glass.
QUENTIN LETTS: The Greens create a whizzy atmosphere of wholemeal innocence. It's like living in an advert for vegetarian bacon.
Rishi Sunak published his election manifesto at Silverstone race track, Northamptonshire.
As two 12-year-old boys are convicted of stabbing innocent bystander Shawn Seesahai, 19, inevitably there are questions as to how two children could have committed such a vicious crime.
Last summer, on holiday in Majorca, I suffered a horrible incident that frightened me - and made me realise I'm no longer a spring chicken.
The surge of the Right in the European Parliament elections means it must have dawned on even Starmer that the EU we voted to leave in 2016 is very different from the one he wants to cosy up to.
QUENTIN LETTS: Party leader Sir Edward Davey launched his election manifesto today with a personal, tear-jerking speech.
