My row with Gordon Brown. And what it taught me about the state of the Union.
At one point he even started firing questions back at me from the stage, putting paid to the moderators’ hopes of continuing the Q&A.
WATCH: McDonnell – “There’s always a bit of a tussle”, but Labour is not riven by factional warfare
The Shadow Chancellor responds to allegations from Lisa Nandy about the hard left’s conduct during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
British politics begins self-isolation
It froze up during Brexit stasis, thawed when Boris Johnson won his majority – and is closing down again as the coronavirus advances.
Grassroots members stand by Patel in our latest Cabinet League Table
The overall numbers are down slightly after the allegations against the Home Secretary and the Government’s defeat over Heathrow.
Free speech is in crisis at universities. Just ask Rudd.
Students are the next round of lawyers, politicians and other key decision-makers. That’s why we must tackle their censorious ways.
Why the Government really tripped up over Heathrow
The decision illustrates how previous parliaments have freighted the process of policy-making with an increasingly onerous lattice of ill-defined obligations.
Our survey. Over half of Party members give a thumbs-up to fracking – so dissenting from Johnson’s manifesto.
They don’t believe that the Government’s moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety.
Writing brief lives of America’s Presidents taught me that Trump is far from being the first outlandish one
Historians concentrate on such great men as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and ignore the more Trumpian figures who reached the White House.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson advocates hand-washing but keeps Pontius Pilate out of it
Corbyn refused to pull together.
Two in three Party members support the 2050 zero carbon target
These results are moderately encouraging for Boris Johnson and his team as they head towards this autumn’s COP26 summit in Glasgow.
Coronavirus 1) We should ease the rules that restrict volunteering
Given that older generations will be most affected by an outbreak, we must encourage young people to volunteer their help.
Our survey. Almost half of Party members believe that human activity is driving global warming. Almost a third don’t.
Our sense is that Conservative MPs will be very roughly where our panel is – although we have to admit that we’ve no evidence for that.
The Patel backlash has a sexist undercurrent
Her critics have accused her of being “inept” and “demanding”. Could their ultimate problem be that the Home Secretary is female?
Conservative activists: there is no Climate Emergency. Our survey.
They reject the claim that there is one by about two-thirds to one third. Our other survey findings on the same theme will also be published this week.
The behaviours of the civil service
At the heart of the Rutnam row is its reservations not only about how the post-Brexit journey is being negotiated, but about taking it in the first place.