One in every 85 homes in London are currently available for short-term let & subject to virtually no regulation. This situation persists despite London's worsening homelessness crisis & a desperate need for homes. Thanks to Rachel Blake for raising in today's short-term lets debate.

So they should join the endless number of beggars and homeless people which year by Tory year got worse since 2010?

Evening Standard first newspaper of my life reading it on 65 bus every day after school. Now it’s just going to be just another bin liner weekly free sheet. Brexit London all the weaker sans a paper linked to the city ⁦Robert Fox⁩ ⁦anne mcelvoy. ⁦Sarah Baxter⁩

Surreal

Rachele Mussolini, granddaughter of Il Duce, and an elected councillor in Rome has quit Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy founded after 1945 by aides to Mussolini. I dislike using term “fascist” as political insult but Sra Mussolini now thinks Sra Meloni too extreme Tanit Koch

One for Ambassador Christopher R. Hill

Excellent explainer defence of sensible overdue measure to stop massive littering and environmental damage by attaching plastic bottle caps in FT by Soumaya Keynes under a fatuous headline as rightists love to blame EU for anything and everything

We've turned the page on candy stores and opened a new chapter for Oxford Street. standard.co.uk/business/busin…

France has already let Ukraine use the joint 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 missile Storm Shadow/Scalp to attack the Russian Black Sea naval command centre. 🇬🇧 should follow suit rather than wait for permission from 🇺🇸 Chris Mason Robert Peston David Lammy John Healey

Il faut dire la vérité sur l’état de nos finances publiques, agir réellement et intelligemment. Une approche par la qualité de la dépense publique est indispensable.

Great news for #WestEnd residents Labour in Westminster gets things done!

🚨 NEW: Ex-1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady has claimed that during a series of scandals involving MPs in 2014, David Cameron told him: “Life would be easier if colleagues paid their expenses on time and didn’t snort coke and sodomise each other.” [The Telegraph]

Syriza. Podemos. Momentum Labour. 21st century left parties come and go don’t they?

Now, now

Good stuff but as I record in “Labour Takes Power. The Denis MacShane Diaries 1997-2001” Biteback Publishing TB was powering ahead w min wage, 180 degree turn on hostility to Europe, ending Serb massacres in Balkans, peace in NI, Parliament in Scotland, mayor 4 London, there was élan

Macron has already fired Scalp/Storm Shadow missiles at Russian Black Sea HQ. Unfortunately London always wants to be subservient to White House. Robert Fox Roger Boyes Edward Lucas Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺

France, Britain, US all tried in our lifetimes maintain imperial rule over countries, peoples by means of armed might. They were defeated by people who wanted to live free of foreign dictatorship. Putin should study history and we should help 🇺🇦 like Moscow helped Vietnam w arms

Macron already authorised Storm Shadow/Scalp missile attacks on HQ of Russian Black Sea fleet after Putin interfered with right of passage in Black Sea. He got the message

As FCO minister I supported joint Scotland-Ireland bid for Euro 2004. Scuppered by Irish nationalists who refused to allow Croke Park to play national anthem or hoist union flag. This followed British security forces murdering 14 Gaelic football fans, wounding 100 at stadium 1920

This is fairest comment on Brexit era Tory MPs from David Cameron talking to 1922 Cttee Chair Graham Brady. “ Life would be easier if colleagues didn’t snort coke and sodomise each other.” Fred C. Noonan Marion Van Renterghem jon henley Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 Charlie Falconer Laurent Joffrin