Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right bbc.com/news/articles/cpqxrz…

The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality

A Labour backbencher has called for the pension triple lock to be reformed to help fund a rise in defence spending @GraemeDownieMP wrote in The House this weekend that the government should be brave enough to ask older people who "benefited financially from peace" to make a greater contribution to future national security politicshome.com/news/articl…

Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?

Jenrick telling us Labour and the Tories broke Britain. Is that the same Conservatives he was a cabinet minister for and a party he wanted to lead? Until he lost to Badenoch, of course.

"Nadhim Zahawi, a few years ago you tweeted: 'I'm not British born Mr Nigel Farage, I'm as British you are. Your comments are offensive and racist. I would be frightened to live in a country run by you'" @nadhimzahawi has just joined Reform.

IT’S DAVID WHO BEAT GOLIATH 😮‍💨 AGAINST ALL ODDS 💙 FT - Macclesfield FC 2-1 Crystal Palace

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence dlvr.it/TQGL1X

🚨 New POLL shows 67% of Labour voters now want re-entry to the EU customs union instead of more tax rises. If that doesn’t shake up Starmer’s red lines, what will? The govt reportedly rejected advice from the chief economic adviser to re-enter the customs union ahead of the Budget and instead chose a £26 billion package of tax rises. There’s huge public support for reversing key Brexit red lines especially among Labour’s own base. That undermines arguments that re-joining or closer EU alignment would be unpopular or electorally risky for Labour. #CustomsUnion #BrexitReality independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

Farage rarely turned up to vote when he was an MEP. But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion. He said it was a “hoax”. He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference. Why?

Stop being sad, and start being an MP. Nigel Farage ‘sad’ as Clacton area remains most deprived neighbourhood independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

I am loath to criticise my former BBC colleagues and I’m aware they weren’t in on the story. But the idea of a TV presenter losing his job being the top story on the website as opposed to Parliament being kept in the dark for two years about the Afghan data leak is risible.

Short (05:53): Wholehearted, backwards

Britain’s government has an unnerving ability to endure the maximum amount of pain for the smallest possible gain econ.st/4jEXnj3 Illustration: Nate Kitch

A Labour MP has written to Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel accusing her of not "one word of sympathy for Palestinians in Gaza" @melanie_ward wrote: "President Trump has made more critical statements... as have... huge swathes of the Israeli public" politicshome.com/news/articl…

RT @melanie_ward: Following exchanges in Parliament, I wrote to Priti Patel about her and her party’s shameful, extreme position on the hor…

In my latest Architects’ Journal piece, I argue that the housing crisis has become a moral failure. Over 1.3 million families are stuck on waiting lists. Some face a century-long wait for a decent, affordable home. architectsjournal.co.uk/news…

Britain’s politics is shackled to a corpse. Perhaps both main parties obsess about the dead because they are fed up with the living. But undoing those chains would leave everyone better off econ.st/43TXvXP Illustration: Nate Kitch

Nobody in Europe—outside Russia, at least—is even casually implying they’ll invade other countries. There are no quips about turning an unwilling nation into a “28th state”. On the contrary, many of the EU’s neighbours are desperate to join the club econ.st/4i7yCes