A round of applause, please, for the Guardian colleague who wrote the headline to this story of mine.
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- I know Just Stop Oil aren't everyone's cup of tea these days, but should we be worried that people are being jailed for five and four years because of an entirely non-violent protest? I think we probably should.
- Hang on - why is the official Treasury account being used for party political slogans?Inflation is now 2.3%. Let's stick to the plan.
GIF - 🧵 Nigel Farage makes his I'm A Celebrity debut tonight, where he will be presented as a purveyor of robust but mainstream rightwing views. A pre-show reminder that he's not: he has regularly aired conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism & far right beliefs. Here's a sample 1/
- Fantastic line in Mark Drakeford's speech to the Labour conference.
- Rishi Sunak was in Dorset yesterday afternoon and Cornwall today. But rather than stay overnight, he took a helicopter back to London and a jet to Cornwall this morning. Man doesn’t like trains.
- Without wishing to be a bore about this subject, a serving home secretary describing asylum seekers as “an invasion of our southern coast”, and in the Commons, is really striking. It’s the sort of language that a decade or so ago would have been the preserve of the far right.
- Parliament today is 50% first day of school, 50% collapse of Lehman Brothers. Within two minutes I saw groups of new Labour MPs hugging in mutual congratulations, and Therese Coffey wheeling out a pair of gigantic suitcases.
- Whatever your views on the monarchy, these pictures should chill you.Republican protesters being arrested and their placards confiscated ahead of the coronation.
- Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to discuss the plunge in the pound, saying that as chancellor he cannot discuss "market movements". Really?
- Rarely in human history has a protest which involved maybe 250 people maximum attracted such media attention (in some quarters).
- I was about to listen to Therese Coffey discuss health & social care policy at the Tory conference… but she’s suddenly not appearing, nor is any other health minister. Not the smoothest day so far for the government.
- I didn't properly clock till just now that Kit Malthouse is the fifth UK education secretary *in the last year*. That's really quite something.
- You know you’re at Conservative conference when the posh French Champagne doesn’t come by the bottle, or the case, but by the trolley-load.
