I feel a bit sorry for Jimmy Anderson that this is happened yesterday when the back pages are full of Euros final speculation - and it means he doesn’t get the coverage he deserves. (Of course, he might be relieved)

There needs to be a cognitive dissonance razor: if a group of defeated people retains consensus then that is the source of their defeat

There’s a flask under that seat, guaranteed

Christ you don’t usually have to wait this long for the French to set fire to something

I think Elon Musk has a Pots and Kettles problem. You could even call him #TwoTierMusk This is racial hatred against myself and Humza Yousaf yesterday that X says #doesnotviolate platform rules on Hateful Conduct Yet political debate like the other tweet is Hateful Conduct!!

🎂 Happy Birthday to our former captain, Paul Lambert 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

humming ELO at the moment, no idea why

I think we sometimes confuse confidence with excellence in political communication. Farage has bags of the former but there is little evidence he has much of the latter

Amazing

Well explained - vital that journalists can pursue their work without fear or favour from authority. Police really should know that treating photo journalists as evidence gatherers puts them in an invidious position

As Jim says the graph below shows what we found in our own polling - many will still think 8% a worryingly high figure for those willing to say violent protests outside refugee accommodation are justified, but it is some magnitude lower than a third.

I know it really isn’t important because this writer is dressing up bigotry, but I loathe the self importance of the prose. Its fussiness, to me, reveals a preference for the artifice of thinking over the actual hard job of doing it

Read the room

How to make friends and influenza people

Total Mud! Highfield Road March 1988 Reporter Clive Tyldesley

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So Badenoch joins Starmer in standing up for straight talking. All well and good but there’s a danger this a) treats politics as bad (it isn’t) and b) means you get caught out when you inevitably end up doing quite a lot of it

Is Josh Babarinde a future Lib Dem leader? Some people think so... He speaks to Harriet Symonds about arguing with xenophobes, employing ex-offenders with James Timpson's help, and being the ultimate yimby (a house is being built in his back garden) politicshome.com/news/article/n…