Heather Stewart

also you can’t move for gorgeous foodstuffs in Venice and peanuts are not one of them?

Glad the government has listened and done this.

Reminded me of Dom Raab admitting he hadn't quite understood the importance of Dover-Calais for UK trade.

Unbeatable stuff

Hedge fund manager fails to quantify risk 😂

TRADERS NOW SEE ABOUT 8% CHANCE OF RATE CUT BY DECEMBER, FROM ABOUT 40% CHANCE ON FRIDAY

Chart showing the relationship between gasoline futures prices (advanced 2w) and national average gasoline prices

Attacking Iran looks like it will cost US consumers about 40 cents/gallon.

Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.

It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...

Total chaos.

They can be reluctant to argue for net zero measures for their own sake, tho - it tends to be rebadged as cutting bills/energy sovereignty. They are cracking on but they don’t shout about it.

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Typically great from our man in Washington David Smith on Trump’s terrifying Iran gamble: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My thought exactly

Give me strength 🤦🏻‍♀️

And your supply, which you have wish’d so long,
Are cast away, and sunk on Goodwin Sands.

A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.

"Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing."

The crisis is as deep as it is as Labour has now given master classes within 6 years of how to lose by veering left AND by over-correcting

Latest from PM suggests he still struggles to grasp our Left bloc Vs Right bloc politics

Instead, he’s trying to equate Greens & Reform from a vanishing centre

There are lots of student loan proposals flying around. This stuff is complicated and contentious. Fortunately my colleague Kate Ogden has stepped in as the fifth emergency service, to explain what these proposals mean, who would win/lose, and how much they'd cost.

Just spotted that the openly racist candidate for Tommy Robinson's "Advance UK" was beaten by the Monster Raving Looney Party.

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Bader addresses girls speech day.

His legendary speech at the private girls' school prize giving:

Was really struck by seeing that yesterday - absolutely terrifying (and yet somehow not surprising). Do write on it!

You can rock it, no doubt

Is yours as tight as hers? It looks sprayed on...

Sketchwriters in training.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It sounds fascinating - congrats!

BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘The Many’ slate wins Your Party internal elections, meaning he is set to be elected parliamentary leader by new central exec committee.

The Corbyn slate won 14 seats to seven for the Grassroots Left, Zarah Sultana’s outfit, alongside 3 independents.

Surely the Epstein revelations are as good an argument as any to tighten up this bill?
“The idea that rich individuals – whether foreign or not – should be able to donate unlimited sums to political campaigns is indefensible in a democracy. Yet ministers are intent on maintaining that arrangement.”

This would make quite the Top Gun sequel…