Great issue. Worth it for the funny, moving, brilliant Minutemen oral history by Stevie Chick alone

Fasda #Supermarketmanics

Pretty much every child excluded at primary school has SEND. Every so often a stat stops you in your tracks, and this is one of them.

Yes, it's the new Politics Weekly UK, on the Iran/Israel crisis, and this week's three-part Tory panto: smoking, NatCon in Brussels and LIZ TRUSS podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pol…

Tomorrow's The Guardian Politics Weekly UK is rich with stuff: me, gabyhinsliff & Peter Ricketts on Iran, Israel and what might come next, plus Gaby and me agreeing & disagreeing on the new smoking moves, Liz Truss & the Brussels NatCon farce. Up at 5am!

If you’re curious about the editorial rigour applied to Truss’s book, this quote was dubiously attributed to Rothschild in a 1935 by Gertrude Coogan, a Rothschild-obsessed antisemite who claimed “the World is ruled by the International Money Masters”

New festival from Jo & Danny, who invented & established The Green Man. Easy location, great bill

So, here we are on a GWR train that's broken down near Maidenhead. It's feels impossible to travel from the West Country now without this stuff happening . 'The driver will shortly be walking down the track to isolate the problem,' says the announcer, like it's 1843

Front page of the year

Me on Liz Truss's astonishing powers of self-belief, and where she could possibly have got them theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I'm only 24 pages into Liz Truss's book and I'm already reminded of the quip misattributed to Dorothy Parker: “It is not a book to be lightly thrown aside. It should be thrown with great force.”

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Norfolk and Suffolk NHS trust fails to allay coroners' concerns over two deaths

Easily the most absurd role in the 14 year play

Nick Boles sums it up perfectly.

Liz Truss got a book advance of £1500.

That's enough Liz Truss book promo interviews, eh?

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Totally agree re Texas Fever

More on the deepening saga of the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Mental Health Trust from matthew weaver theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'Next month, the writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft will bring out a belated and very lucid sequel to his 2005 masterpiece The Strange Death of Tory England, titled Bloody Panico!'

An opinion piece by John Harris in The Guardian

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