@MichaelVaughan play drinking games with the lot

In Germany, the former spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power. It's described as "the biggest German spy scandal in recent history." Perfectly timed, Chris and I talked about another huge German spy scandal on Reichs and Republics last week: the Guillaume Affair. Listen/watch on all platforms.

"We don't hate anybody." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." Truly the French spirit. The Peace of Westphalia of 1648, recreated in a comedy sketch from the BBC program The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999).

On the third anniversary of the 7 October Hamas terrorist massacre, don't fall for the lies. Here is a fully sourced account of why you shouldn't believe the propaganda. And do not denounce it unless you've actually clicked on it and read it.

"For the time being, the Labour Party seems thrilled" Ian Hislop assesses whether the Labour Party changing leader from Keir Starmer for Andy Burnham has been a success: "You had all these people saying, 'it's not Keir!'" #Newsnight

The greats study the greats.

I assumed this was satire. The notion that the chair of @AmnestyUK, one of the most institutionally antisemitic NGOs in the world, would resign over Green antisemitism is genuinely LOL. thejc.com/news/politics/chai…

Andrew Neil explains how bailing out the banks gave us Trump and Brexit.

To truly understand the Birmingham Tapestry, I have asked a doctor of Anglo-Saxon History to take us all through it. Step forward, Conservative Party Deputy Leader, Dr @alexburghart .

I hope they get smashed up.

This vision @KemiBadenoch is highly impressive. It is realistic & radical but also optimistic, decent, refreshing & dramatic. It is the first time in 25years or more that a major party leader has spoken honestly & sensibly about what has gone wrong, challenged all sorts of mistakes & orthodoxies perpetrated by both parties for decades, and suggested how to govern & reform this country in this turbulent new era. Its no surprise that this was in part inspired by chats w the late brilliant Sir Alex Younger. No wonder Kemi is so popular as a leader and this confirms why…

The relationship between UAE, Manchester City Council and Andy Burnham is a story that is getting murkier by the day…

How people cant see this man as the perfect leader of this country baffles me! He is the only Politician i have ever listened to and felt proud to have him

Cabinet Office evacuated. Apparently not a fire drill.

Could Tucker Carlson possibly be any stupider or offensive honestly how the fuck does this shit heap get on television rather than being made to go and live in the woods.

“I suddenly realized I was on the other side. What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans. When I asked my friends what they wanted, what were they trying to achieve, all I got back was this ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook…” Roger Scruton, Paris 1968

THE classic Tolkien quote

Some middle manager at Man City had to tell their IT team to custom-build a server that stopped the Premier League copy/pasting any text from the documents they handed over. "Yeah, we're innocent, but can you just make life as hard as possible for the people investigating us?"

From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015