On the week that Nigel Farage has launched his Substack, we ask: why are all politicians writing long form essays now? Watch the full episode of In The Room with @cleowatson88 and @helen_macnamara: trib.al/O6tp8Ux

Forget war! Forget energy prices! Forget civilization burning to a crisp or being taken over by robots! ⁠ Instead, turn to The Poshcast to debate the real questions that divide Britain: Is yours a shoes-on or shoes-off household? Has the Cotswolds become the naffest place in the country? And is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as basic as a premiership footballer now he has a double-barrelled name? It’s hosted by Sophia Money-Coutts and @cleowatson88 two good pals who met a few years ago at a party and bonded over dogs and writing bonkbusters while knocking back margaritas.⁠ ⁠⁠ Do please keep on your shoes, take off your gloves and hold on to your hats for The Poshcast. ⁠ Available at the link and wherever you get your podcasts 👇 linktr.ee/ThePoshcast

'There has to be accountability for those who have failed' The families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates told #BBCBreakfast the public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks revealed a 'catastrophic collapse of responsibility' and an 'undoubted miscarriage of justice' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8d…

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Jones 🔥 praised Mandelson the day he was fired 🔥was rude about Reeves 🔥took several swipes at Jonny Reynolds 🔥bemoaned the influence of the trade unions BUT none of these messages made it into the public disclosure on Monday. Fancy that! spectator.com/article/reveal…

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice. We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff. Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year. And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon. Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket? An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small. We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail. Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: quibble.org.uk

EXC: Andy Burnham’s new campaign logo. Soon to be seen on beermats across the Makerfield constituency…

Show of hands called by @BethRigby at Hay Festival should Starmer stay or go. Same % as Leeds. @SkyNews