As he prepares for his first conference as a Liberal Democrat MP, Chuka Umunna reflects on a momentous year from him and UK politics

The Disabled Students’ Allowance should cover the full cost of technologies to help close the outcomes gap between disabled and non-disabled students, writes Seema Malhotra

Once hailed as a ‘diplomatic coup’ by Brussels negotiators, the backstop proved the undoing of Theresa May’s premiership – and may yet deliver the same fate to Boris Johnson’s. Sebastian Whale reports on how the question of the Northern Irish border became an impossible square to circle

With constitutional questions abounding, we asked the Commons Library expert, Graeme Cowie, about what it’s like being the brain behind the briefings Westminster relies on. 

Too many people with autism are left lonely or isolated, unable to get the support they need. This must change, writes Cheryl Gillan MP, chair of the Autism APPG

On standing down as chair of the Lords EU Committee, Lord Boswell looks back at his seven years at the helm – and offers some advice to his successor

Although short on revelations, John Whittingdale MP finds Bernard Ingham’s account of the dying days of the Thatcher Government an entertaining read

This spineless Parliament has willed the end of Brexit without being prepared to will the means – the sooner it dissolves the better, writes Vernon Bogdanor

We’re as divided on how to implement constitutional reform as we are on Brexit. We must be wary of any solutions which will worsen our current dilemma, writes Lord Norton 

Unsparing in its analysis of Britain's turbulent relationship with Iran, Jack Straw's The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain is a book of immense worth, says Alistair Burt MP

The new Lords Democracy & Digital Technology Committee will seek to answer the crucial questions such as how our representative democracy can be supported, rather than undermined, in a digital world, writes Lord Puttnam

This has been a parliament of obscene self-indulgence. Never has a general election been more welcome, writes Tony Grew