It’s desperate stuff. Hugo Timms, who no one has heard of, must really hate himself.

Especially if it’s going to be casually referred to as “the jewelry thing”

Meanwhile, the Louvre sits back and has a cigarette.

I‘d say today isn’t the day to say “It’s the economy, stupid.”

This level of cruelty is unthinkable in a Labour government, which has already done some previously-thought-unthinkable cruel things.

The Epstein files

“May I meet you?” sounds like a Martian learning to speak human.

Will there be corresponding orders of shrivelry for the lepers?

The fact that Labour’s asylum proposals have won plaudits from far-right racist Tommy Ten Names tells us all we need to know.

..work as it should - by cutting initial decision delays and the appeals backlog, sorting out asylum accommodation, making the UK-France deal work, removing those whose claims fail etc.

The Government must think again on this.

The Government is wrong to think that reviews of safety in the person's country every few years will mean refugees can be returned at scale. That hasn't happened in Denmark. Brutal dictators tend to hang onto power. It would just move huge amounts of resource away from making our asylum system...

We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation.

The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.