In advance of an all-singing, all-dancing website, anyone who wants to keep up with my #writing can find everything here, thanks to the lovely people at @Authory. https://t.co/S3igHaLUZR

What would those "distractions" be, Sir Keir? Vicious briefing against colleagues out of the blue for semi-imagined leadership plots? His cognitive dissonance is astounding.

On This Day @CityAM: in 1987, a dropped match on a Piccadilly line escalator caused a catastrophic inferno at Kings Cross Tube station. 31 people were killed and major weaknesses exposed in safety. The nightmare forced London Underground to change. https://t.co/n17s1iyLAa

Her husband, Philip II, who was in Brussels, wrote to his sister that “I felt reasonable regret at her death”.

Today in 1558, Mary I, Queen of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Naples &c., died at St James’s Palace. She was 42. It had been a hard and often uncertain life with a great deal of sadness, and her death doomed any hope of England remaining a Roman Catholic country.

People will remember the “stupid”, the “mean SOBs” and the “bad guys”, I have no doubt. And many of them unfortunately will judge them with this same lack of basic humanity, charity and decency. But them’s the breaks, Mr President. Be prepared.

President Trump claims “Victory on reducing inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing”. This is wild fantasy garbage. It’s not even slightly true. If he knows that, he’s a shameless liar. If he thinks it’s the truth, he’s ignorant beyond imagination.

My @CityAM column this week: after 16 months, Sir Keith Starmer’s premiership is under genuine threat; @10DowningStreet flails from crisis to crisis; but none of the proposed successors has a serious economic alternative. Political crisis as psychodrama. https://t.co/zsyXGAbcRh

Spokesman for the @RoyaNavy: “The @RFAHeadquarters continues to operate globally in accordance with defence requirements and priorities.” Five of the RFA’s 10 ships are out of service, including all four which support amphibious ops. How can this possibly be meaningfully true?

Heartwarming and diverse selection of the late Rachel Cooke’s writing from 25 years at the @ObserverUK. https://t.co/l03xPNLlGk

About half of the population of the Ghetto died of disease and starvation while the others were deported to Treblinka and murdered. SS General Jürgen Stroop liquidated the Ghetto in April-May 1943 with guns, flamethrowers and explosives. He produced a detailed report.

Today 85 years ago the Warsaw Ghetto was sealed: 450,000 Polish Jews confined to an area nine-tenths the size of Central Park. By 1941 daily ration was 180 calories. I visited in 2010, one of the bleakest experiences of my life, a square mile of utter desolation.

Excellent look at the “independence” of the @bankofengland by @ManiBasharzad in the @spectator. “Political influence” is framed as bad but it’s one aspect of accountability and ministers are entitled to determine economic fiscal policy. https://t.co/vXsnJaRbIj

Weekly concatenation of birthdays, commemorations, facts and recommendations, with words by @johnjhardy @alexmassie @khalafroula @AmericasNewMap @brandan_buck Beckett Elkins @AntoniaHitchen1 @Madz_Grant @colingorrie. The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed in 1940. https://t.co/DDgEQRPJUR

Is the Corbyn-Sultana project even sufficiently developed to allow you formally to “leave”? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/i76ODNZBkc

I have no time for Zack Polanski and his neo-Bennism, but other parties should listen to the way he speaks: human, answering questions. Two years I warned in @CityAM that relentless message discipline made politicians sound weird, robotic and detached. https://t.co/cBrxvE99ca

I don't know about you, but I really question Harold II's priorities in making time to go to a Chelsea home game at Stamford Bridge when there was such an immediate threat of invasion from Normandy. Wise after the event, maybe, but seems obvious now.

A not-very-spicy take: the basic idea underlying Police and Crime Commissioners was not a bad one; they haven’t worked out; it may not be anyone’s fault in particular; it’s perfectly sensible to admit the outcome and scrap them. Tried something, didn’t work, these things happen.

With Morgan McSweeney’s jaikit on a shoogly peg, as my father would have said, a piece I wrote for @theipaper in 2023 on Downing Street chiefs of staff and the tendency for the job to be done badly rather than well. https://t.co/bQSt07Y6NP

Happy Friday to anyone else who ever worked in the Overseas Office of either House and is roaring with laughter at membership of the UK delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly being characterised as a “jet-setting government job”. https://t.co/CZVtpOq5aH

There is a basic point (made by several people) that Starmer either knew about the briefings against Streeting or was unaware of them, and the conclusion of neither puts the PM in a good light. But one or the other must be true.