Epic Games has launched its own app store on iOS today, bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone four years after Apple pulled the game from its App Store theverge.com/2024/8/16/2422…

Ditch the corporate self-help books this summer. If you’re a chief executive, or aspire to be one, head for the classics section instead econ.st/4cmJQJp 👇

For those who may not have seen, here's one of my tailors explaining how he would create a pattern for a large chested woman. You can see why this would be difficult to do in ready-to-wear, made-to-measure, or post-purchase alterations x.com/dieworkwear/st…

The latest WhitehallProject post is picked up by the Times here👇 Sign up at the link in bio to get all WhitehallProject stories direct in your inbox thetimes.com/article/89e48c…

Listening to some commentary around the Starmer-Europe visits, it seems very few have learned from the Brexit negotiation years. The political alignment of leaders means very little in terms of cooperation - alignment between British or German/French conservatives not a thing

There are very few examples of specific policy areas where a deal with the UK is worth more to an EU nation than keeping things balanced with rest of the 27. There are some, but few. Most of those can be squared but where they can’t the zero-sum outcome tends to win

Tensions are rising between civil servants and ministers globally, new study shows Fascinating report led by Gus O'Donnell - based on interviews with serving cabinet secretaries in UK, US, France, Canada, Aus, Ireland and more - found officials increasingly feel conflicted

Yes - women's health goes beyond reproductive health (for instance heart disease remains the number one killer and affects women differently to men). From this excellent report on #data gaps in #WomensHealth mckinsey.com/industries/lif…

🏺 Four-year-old boy smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Live in fear of this event at every museum visit.

Q: PM after PM has come to Berlin to ask for better trade deal only to fail. You’ve ruled out rejoining EU, single mkt or CU. But u know you’ll have to make concessions for better deal. Do you acknowledge that & specifically, will you allow freedom of movement for young Germans?

“Hitler died in ’45. Trump was born in ’47. That gave the devil two years to steal a soul.” “Kamala slept her way to the top.” The overarching message in small town Indiana is one of deep polarisation. 🇺🇸 Lewis Goodall

Dream job alert as ‘superfans’ urged to apply to become bakery’s official pie taster dlvr.it/TCYcvl Full story 👇

Grim reading Concern over housing costs hits record high across rich nations via Financial Times on.ft.com/3XbOPH7

Interesting chart showing Britain’s sluggish growth since the pandemic broke out and putting us way down the pecking order. Though in truth no major European economy has grown by that much since end-2019.

There's a difference between how respondents view "immigration" and "border security" in the polls but it's small. I think most people conflate them most of the time. Although these polling data doesn't prove that there's a major overlap, it's consistent with my theory.

Vistry boss: Our affordable homes strategy looks like a winner thetimes.com/article/41ee37…

This is so Boris, reacting to every headline

A Norwegian port sits on the edge of the most viable polar shipping route linking China to Europe. As sea ice retreats, it’s become a major prize in Beijing’s ambitions for the Arctic. Read The Big Take: trib.al/0n7bu7Q