Toynbee thinks Sunak has an eye on the Tory leadership, and will pander to the party's key supporters to win the crown. The price of this is an ongoing crisis in public services, and a possible defeat at the next election.

John Lennon was nearly right, it seems.

John Harris explores the possible differences that might exist between the Johnson and Sunak views of net zero, levelling up and the like.

Are we heading into a Winter of Discontent 2.0, and will it help Labour?

The film director attacks Starmer and all his works, looking to rescue Labour from the Blairites and hand it back to those who know how best to lose elections.

The equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has a problem that Malik needs to tell her about.

Nicola Sturgeon's economic adviser moans about the global economy. I - the man least likely to become Sturgeon's adviser - respond.

Toynbee suggests that Labour's position is less dire than some might think, and that the way to win is to be a plausible alternative provider. I think she's right, but that the reason why she's right is quite depressing. (At the end of the first section I sound as though I'm eating my feet, but the moment passes).

Brown's "Our Scottish Future" think tank has done some polling on the values of folk in the UK. I talk about this, Brown's responsibility for our present crisis, and the very considerable difference that exists between supporting independence and supporting the SNP.

The environmentalist Monbiot suggests that more needs to be done to allow communities to control local planning. I suggest that there's a far bigger problem regarding land usage which he's ignoring.