Before Cephalonia there was a clearing in the Normandy woods, with a spring and a clear, cold stream | Louis de Bernières | The Guardian

Exactly this.

Perhaps some of the people so certain that Trump’s victory is a victory for common sense would care to explain this man to whom Trump promised “control of public health agencies”

David Lammy: "I would have liked to have welcomed the new Foreign Secretary(David Cameron) to this place, but he isn't here.. The PM has looked at each of the 350 MPs, sitting opposite, & decided that none of them was better at representing Britain's interest on the world stage"

This is a must watch. A brutal takedown of a Home Secretary that is not fit for office and a Prime Minister that is clearly out of his depth.

Last week: Govt wants to define anyone who undermines a British institution as an extremist This week: Home Secretary undermines a British institution.

Brilliant @YvetteCooperMP … every day these days the Opposition is looking and sounding more like the government than the government. So perhaps it is time for an, er, election what you say Rishi? I mean when someone as useless as Braverman is in charge of you, what’s the point?

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Hideous.

I sometimes think this conference is simply designed to drive the last moderate Tories out. The Conservative Party was the traditional defender of small family farms and rural traditions. How is this globalised hormone-pumped rhetoric conservative?

Reduce benefits? How about starting with the six figure ex-PM allowance you get for the rest of your life as a reward for reaching a job you should never have had and clearly couldn’t do?