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'Despite inevitable detractors, Reeves has bought her and the hard-pressed prime minister some time' @williamnhutton on the budget https://t.co/xa5JJd5r3R

'The first thing this planeload of Arizonians see is me, a comedy writer, being pulled off a plane for tweeting' @AndrewHankinson interviews @Glinner https://t.co/FUrinezhtI

'The nonsense talk of an impending IMF bailout is exposed for what it always was: bonkers rightwing scaremongering' Read @williamnhutton on the budget https://t.co/xa5JJd5r3R

‘It’s me pointing at things and people looking at my finger’ @andrewhankinson meets @Glinner https://t.co/FUrinezhtI

'There will be another Epstein. There is one among us now' @TanyaGold1 tries to understand the man no one can really see https://t.co/YZqK9XI1Ck

The guerillas are everywhere’: Mogadishu prepares to fall to Islamist insurgents Today’s @ObserverUK reveals how terrorist groups are building their militias to capture Mogadishu. “SNA is just a ragtag army,” says Awad. “They don’t have doctrine and they don’t have structure.”

Labour MPs are finally cheering – but this budget’s true test is yet to come Andrew Rawnsley on the budget https://t.co/EZmDnupGWU

A manifesto for the imagination As a boy, the Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes was told that he had ‘too much imagination’. Now he believes it is our greatest asset https://t.co/QSXTxD05Nw

The sting in the tail is the imperative to cap the growth of welfare spending, especially on health and personal disabilities, to obviate the need for year 2 and 3 freeze on income tax thresholds. Labour backbenchers, if they want to hold their seats,will be compelled to agree.

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A tame budget with a sting in its tail Rachel Reeves delivered a recognisably social democratic budget that conformed to Labour values, writes @williamnhutton https://t.co/xa5JJd5r3R

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? @TanyaGold1 goes inside the mind of a 21st-century monster https://t.co/YZqK9XI1Ck

Forget those damaging self-defeating leaks - a tamer and better budget than expected and one the Labour Party will get behind. She has bought her and the PM some time.

'Can’t you just be nicer, Graham?' @andrewhankinson meets @Glinner https://t.co/FUrinezhtI

"Employees were given no warning that the chain’s 147 shops were about to close. Documents filed at Companies House show that it owed £37.5m when it fell into administration, causing the loss of around 1,400 jobs," writes Marine Saint. https://t.co/irwr0RX56B

An international team of economists polled 7,000 British firms and estimated that the “micro” hit to the firms’ growth since Brexit has been 5 to 6 per cent, which has fed into a “macro” hit to the wider economy of 6 to 8 per cent. Read more as Giles Whittell reports:

Gaza is trapped in limbo. In the weeks since the ceasefire was agreed, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and more than 600 injured, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Listen to today's Sensemaker wherever you get your podcasts to discover more:

‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news.’ @davidmbarnett's cancer diagnosis was the last thing anyone expected or needed – but especially his mum, while going through chemotherapy herself. Read his full piece now: