Theresa May’s Queen’s speech has squeaked through parliament with a majority of just 14. A few months ago, the talk was of “strong and stable leadership” and May was being compared to Margaret Thatcher. But this Tory administration now looks a long way from that which dominated the 1980s – largely thanks to the current prime minister’s bungled snap election campaign.

To get a unique and detailed insight into what May could have done differently, Tim Bale spoke to Norman Tebbit, who ran the Tories’ successful, but sometimes turbulent, 1987 campaign. Thirty years on, Tebbit sits in the House of Lords and remains a hero of the Right.

In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, they discussed May’s doomed attempt to make herself bigger than the party, why Priti Patel may become her most likely successor and whether the Tories should have paid the DUP for their support.

You might not have much time for conspiracy theories – after all, aren’t they just imaginative but ultimately harmless ideas concocted by cranks with too much time on their hands? Not so, suggests Turkay Salim Nefes – they can be powerful political tools used to divide and conquer.

An early self-portrait of Andy Warhol, taken in a New York photo-booth in 1963, sold this week at a London auction for more than £6m. The shot of Warhol adjusting his tie has been acknowledged as one of the first “selfies” by the pop art prodigy. Tom van Laer and Stefania Farace have used the picture to come up with three golden rules for an eye-catching selfie.

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