McDonnell’s speech suggests the Labour establishment are winning

Corbyn has retreated on NATO and the EU, been slapped down on Trident, and now his Shadow Chancellor has delivered a speech the old leadership could have written.

WATCH: Legal highs protest in Parliament Square

“We accept that drugs are risky, but there are lots of things in society that are risky… but we don’t stop people doing those. We let people make informed decisions.”

From Reggie to Dessie: “She covered her face, not her privates – the former being more recognisable nationally.”

In which a Minister of State at the Department International Development wobbles past on a bicycle sporting only a panama hat in Yeomanry colours.

The DUP want to have their constitutional cake and eat it

Nigel Dodds’ latter-day conversion to the legitimacy of the SNP coincides with a threat to the influence of DUP MPs.

Lord Green: How the Guardian got it wrong on immigration

It’s front page story exactly a week ago misrepresented an Office of Budget Responsibility report. (P.S: The OBR isn’t doing too well itself either.)

Labour’s foxes: not so much shot as incinerated. Fleet Street’s take on the budget.

As the election looms, the papers are shifting back to their political comfort zones. But the consensus is that Osborne has drawn some of the sting from Miliband’s attack.

Matthew Bailey and Philip Cowley: Thatcherism – not born in Birmingham

Despite all the myths that have built up around it, the first person to coin the phrase ‘Thatcherism’ on the record was most likely the Lady herself.

The right-wing press sets to work on Miliband

Today’s papers demonstrate how the Conservative press pack has shifted into campaign mode and marked their target: Labour.

A new data-led analysis of the Green threat to Labour

Rob Ford predicts that, although she can’t offer many direct challenges, Natalie Bennett can still make life difficult for Miliband.

Iain Dale: Roger Bird – not exactly Brad Pitt in the looks department, is he?

Plus: Farage knifes Hamilton. Hopeless Miliband. Useless Clegg. Truth from Phibbs. Katz among the pigeons. And: I’m forever, forever, forever blowing bubbles.

Iain Dale: My date in the dark with Sadiq Khan

Also: Miliband plays with Farage and plays with fire. The unGreen BBC. Jonathan Jones is a twat. Two new Biteback books. Plus: Guido’s Iranian payments to friends of Israel.

Iain Dale: I won’t join those dancing on Coulson’s grave

Plus: Bad Suarez. Useless Obama. Kinnock, the new Miliband. And: Make the most of your mother while you still have time.

Want a Tory victory in 2030? Fight to turn the North East blue

My home area’s furious response to left-wing slander shows the red rosettes are flimsier than they might seem.

LISTEN: The IoD’s Graham Robb tears into a Guardian comparison between the North-East and Detroit

“An irresponsible and foolish article…So much of it was wrong…A dreadful, lazy comparison…It violates the region.”

Sir Tony Baldry MP: How 38 Degrees will help the Conservatives win the next General Election

The left-wing campaign group has denied Labour the initiative on a host of issues.