Behind today’s genocide row about the Uighurs stand the Hong Kongers, Biden – and our own trade and security irresolution.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
I’m haunted by how media propagation of tribalism in Rwanda helped to desensitise people – and was followed by genocide.
This decision reiterates the political importance of the UK’s cities to our party – and we must aim for a blue-led council in 2022.
It is seldom a good sign when Governments decide to tinker with the Whitehall architecture.
At home, our government’s motives will be questioned, and it will be accused of holding post-colonial attitudes borne of guilt or arrogance.
Of course, many of the sacked ministers – Fallon, Mitchell, Shapps and a dozen others are hoping for preferment under a Boris administration.
A run-off between him and Johnson would risk being seen as a continuation of the “psychodrama” between the two men.
His critics claim his appointment as International Development Secretary “could lead to the death of thousands of the world’s poorest people”.
I found an incredibly likeable person – but although he knuckled down and scored some successes, he was better placed as Chief Whip than Defence Secretary.
The list includes the three who resigned from the Government this evening – and Green, one of the Prime Minister’s oldest allies.
Philip Davies, a famously long-standing and committed Brexiteer, is among their number.
My colleagues and I were elected on a promise to uphold our aid commitment. Breaking my word is a very big deal.