This is a really helpful analysis. If only editorial staff at BBC News had read it before putting this evening's news bulletins together.

It wouldn't have been necessary if Trump hadn't questioned the referee's decision, which looked to have been correct, and which should have been final.

You still don't get it. How would you go about protecting the rights of trans people *now*, given that the Equality Act as interpreted by the SC clearly allows discrimination against them?

I know, but you're missing the point. It was drafted well before the weaponisation of transphobia by social conservatives and the far right.

This is shameful. Use Labour's huge parliamentary majority to revise the Equality Act and stop this nonsense.

It was a great piece of design. It needs to come back, perhaps as an EV.

One hopes that the getaway vehicle was a Nissan S-Cargo.

Yes, but what's different about the current crisis is that moderate activists who supported Starmer pre-GE are bailing. Many of them were stalwarts of the leaflet & doorstep. Maybe the leadership are cynically hoping they'll return to the fold before the next GE to keep Ref out. Good luck with that.

It's a huge pain for parents trying to pass on modest wealth to look after disabled children for the rest of their lives, especially when state social care is so precarious.

Free movement is a benefit not a cost.

Good to see the BL's problems finally getting attention. But research libraries are also crucial components of our national STEM infrastructure, managing access to digital content, open access repositories, and research data. Libraries are a lot more than the laboratories of the arts & humanities.