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Kyiv and cities throughout Ukraine fell under renewed Russian aerial bombardment today, with the death toll reaching 11 people and dozens more injured. Targets from Moscow’s so-called ‘high-precision’ weaponry aimed at apparently ‘critical military infrastructure’ included children’s playgrounds, pedestrian bridges and parks.

If there is one building that exemplifies the great sweep of English (later British) history and the pitch battles – sometimes literally – that marked the development of constitutional monarchy in this country, it is Westminster Hall.

There was something deeply weird about last night’s ITV leadership debate. Not the moment Rishi Sunak asked Liz Truss what presumably his team thought would be a zinger:

“I feel soiled”