MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
It has been an oft-espoused theory that the Lib Dems couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery and now we have proof positive.
Not only did they manage to get their posteriors comprehensively handed to them in not just one but two polls, but now their attempts to cast off the albatross round their necks has turned into a self-inflicted decapitation.
How rubbish do you have to be to fail to oust Nick Clegg?
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis
After a ruinous run at Tolkien, the streaming platforms are moving on to Narnia — a naff mix of religious allegory, colonial attitudes, and thinly veiled prejudices that is beyond rescuing, writes STEPHEN ARNELL



