A fantastic series that ITV should feel proud to have championed, but the economics of TV are changing fast. This was a MONSTER hit, and yet not

‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office somehow made £1,000,000 loss for ITV’ metro.co.uk/2024/04/24/mr-…

Thursday’s The Guardian front page: Labour pledges to nationalise rail network within five years theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Great evening listening to Rob Burley Rafael Behr and stunning Ayesha Hazarika is Shoreham tonight. #gettheirbooks

Now THIS is a deterrent

Lovely, enlightening and entertaining evening with Ayesha Hazarika Rafael Behr Rob Burley Ropetackle Centre - thank you all so much!

At least this means they'll never get to Rwanda, Ryanair's Kigali hub is probably near Ramsgate.

If it looks like the Greens are going to end the Bute House Agreement, surely the SNP will get in first?

Not sure the optics of Humza getting dumped by the Greens is a particularly good one.

Rayner completely dominated PMQs. In confronting it in her first question, she destroyed the Dowden attacks before they took place. He couldn't recover. She demonstrated exactly so many of her opponents fear her as a political figure. They'll double down after today.

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The death of Lord Frank Field is a profound loss to politics and to our nation.

David Cameron appears to blame Channel crossings on Brexit and suggests the UK would have a better policy than Rwanda if it was still in the EU:

Very sad news. Frank served the people of Birkenhead for 40 years. Everyone in the Wirral will be thinking of his life and contribution. He was indeed unique and a very special person to work with. His work will have an impact for many years to come. Thinking of his loved ones.

More than 6,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year. But where exactly are people coming from, and why are they risking their lives to come here?

Our UK Editor Sima Kotecha takes a look.

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Every single one of the remaining departments would have to be cut by as much as Osborne-era austerity again to make the numbers work.

Justice, Home, Local Government, Housing, Transport.

Never has a government gone into an election with such an implausible fiscal plan.

“27 seconds when somebody has a knife and is attacking you is a really long time. So we had this long moment of lethal intimacy.”

Salman Rushdie says he “cannot draw a line under this event” until his attacker has been sentenced.

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Seems familiar? Boris Johnson pledged to increase defence spending to 2.5% by 2030 at the NATO summit in Madrid in June 2022.