The Daily Mail is foaming at the mouth about Starmer moving a portrait - so the Today Programme just read out the headline & ran a whole feature on it. Can we please stop letting these papers set the news agenda? Let them howl into the void if they must, but don't run after them

The soundtrack to our lives has been the Daily Mail, The Times and other Tory fanrags honking out their prejudices and nostalgia-soaked sense of entitlement. Now that the country has voted to reject that, it would be bloody great if they could turn the volume down. Or off.

I feel Daniel Hannan is getting a lot of unfair press at the moment so here's something to balance it out, showing his keen mind and expertise in political analysis.

8 years on… and a Johnson peerage later… this smear of smug is as wrong as he ever was… and just as determined to strut around like some imperial overlord making a total tit of himself. And of course, the Torygraph is happy to let him.

1/ If you're looking to improve your negotiating skills, one piece of advice is to start observing the way you think and talk about it. Language like this, which centres your ego and reduces negotiations to macho dominance displays, is poison.

Badenoch is launching her ‘renewal’ leadership bid today by calling Labour ‘clueless, irresponsible and dishonest.’ Because nothing shouts ‘renewal’ more than an ex-minister from the most clueless, irresponsible and dishonest govt of our lives slagging off the voters’ choice.

The Tory leadership hopefuls all say that the party must change but we’ve got the same dismal people pledging the same things that didn’t work last time, telling the same lies, whipping up the same division, making the same threats. We binned that. Why would we want it back?

Badenoch “I believe in truth. Truth is not relative” Ok, Kemi Tell the truth about austerity, Johnson, Brexit, VIP lanes, Truss, Rwanda, immigration, trade deals, public services, social care, child poverty, food banks, tax, the state of the economy… The whole truth. Go on…

Nadhim Zahawi the multi-millionaire who claimed £6,000 a year from the tax payer to pay for the electricity to run the stables at his £1 million second home, the highest energy claim in Parliament. He also voted against free school meals.

well this is awkward

“There’s growing concern in Tory circles that Jenrick’s ‘Damascene conversion’ to right-wing causes is .. skin deep and being orchestrated by the infamous ‘Grid of Shit’ people who tried to bring down Rishi” How lovely They should never have power again. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

FCDO legal advice to David Cameron months ago "was clear that the breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel as the occupying power were so obvious that there was a danger of UK complicity if the licences were not withdrawn". theguardian.com/politics/artic…

"The government’s deregulatory agenda... dominated the department’s thinking to such an extent that even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded." - The Grenfell Inquiry report x.com/AdamBienkov/st…

Rayner on Grenfell: “Greed and deregulation were put before safety” Deregulation is not some buccaneering good as Tories would have you believe. Deregulation means removing our protections so the rich and the powerful can take risks and exploit us. Let’s not help them do that.

We keep doing this do we? We keep pretending Brexit is a good idea? We keep kidding ourselves we’re ‘in control’? We keep denying the costs, the losses, the hassle and the sheer stupidity of the whole sorry debacle? Honest to god. Surely we must face up to this idiocy one day.

The German Ambassador valiantly - and vainly - encouraging the Daily Mail to report facts. 'Honest Bob' Jenrick is, inevitably, already running with the lies.

Jenrick, favourite to win the leadership, supports Trump. Badenoch, second favourite, is a fan of Douglas Murray. The Tory Party has ditched Conservatism and become a far-right movement. This is a disaster for British democracy. My new column for MEE: middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-tor…

Esther McVey. A liar and a fool. Her post is nonsense. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t check. She doesn’t think. She never apologises. She just stirs the shit and never takes any responsibility for her own failures. Very sick of nasty Tory MPs like this honking out garbage.

The Rwanda policy was NOT designed to save lives. It was designed to punish. It was designed to dodge our responsibilities. It was a gimmick to appease bigots. It was a moral, legal and practical minefield. It cost £Bns. It was and always would be a profoundly shaming failure.

Brexiters promised national renewal. Instead, they brought bankruptcy theguardian.com/politics/artic…