Fellow hayfever sufferers - has anyone else woken up particularly miserable this morning?

A truly wonderful story. And, come on, admit it: you wouldn't raise even an eyebrow if your spouse spent around 5% of their post-tax income buying a pair of your old shoes. You'd think this perfectly normal behaviour and shame on those who think differently.

Lovely day to believe in God

Re the White House cage fight, it is an example of what a caring dad Trump is

A reminder that the G7 has been delayed for this

Three years since I got a feather in my cap - declared as Fake News by the Russian Embassy

Move through life at the pace of an English Heritage cafe

It would be SO this government to give a minister everything he asked for AFTER he resigned

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

This entirely correct anti-advertising tirade was brought to you by the Trivago man

“The most vital duty of government is the defence of its citizens - you know, if we have time to get round to it”

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

Fun fact: Ted Heath was a great fan of American football and rarely missed the Super Bowl. He once turned up for lunch with a fellow Tory MP, clad in a turquoise and orange Miami Dolphins sweatshirt.

Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity Britain’s response has been to build the brake cutting ourselves off from the future and tied ourselves to the past. We cannot continue like this and remain sovereign.

“You don’t know my girlfriend. She’s in the concourse outside the stadium.”

The Gambling Commission issued killjoy guidance on World Cup sweepstakes Which came as a bit of a shock to the department responsible for the commission, where civil servants had unintentionally broken the rules In this morning’s @TimesDiary

Slip of the tongue on @timesradio just now I meant to say the grandchild of David Hockney’s muse, not of Hockney himself - which would have been something of a revelation