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A Cambridge college master, Prof Pippa Rogerson has rebuked her own staff for scheduling a talk on cancel culture by Helen Joyce, author and former journalist at The Economist. Tutors will open a “safe space” welfare tearoom for students during the talk. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2…

NEW: Liz Truss is set to draw up a resignation honours list - despite only having been in the job for six weeks. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

Here’s the latest on *public* endorsements by our count:

Rishi Sunak: 73
Boris Johnson: 41
Penny Mordaunt: 19

Sunak is on course to hit the 100 threshold tonight

Johnson backers say he has 60+ supporters but many have not publicly endorsed yet

Elon Musk has been reading Max Weber and now thinks he’s a political philosopher.

No wonder Daily Mail readers look so confused

“In forty days, Liz Truss buried the Queen, buried the pound, and buried the Conservative Party.”

The French Left and militant unions overplayed their hand this week. They took on Macron and
Macron won. Worse trouble may be on the way. Me for Unherd.
unherd.com/2022/10/is-rev…

NEW: Sources close to Privileges Committee say evidence is so damning that Boris Johnson could be 'gone by Christmas' if he returns.

One Tory MP tells me any attempt to kill the inquiry could 'bring down the govt'.

Yet momentum builds behind Johnson.

itv.com/news/2022-10-2…

French debate on the super-rich continues to feed unrest lemonde.fr/en/politics/ar…

French television news tries to explain the British political tragedy that started with Brexit.

If repeated at a general election this would leave the Conservative Party with 0 (zero) MPs.

It's time for proven leadership in Downing Street

In French the word is 'cosmopolite'... Is 'globalist' an anti-Semitic term? unherd.com/thepost/is-glo…

The race to No 10 is on (again) twitter.com/i/events/15834…

'The Crown': Netflix ajoute une mention 'fiction' à la bande annonce de la 5e saison bfmtv.com/people/series/…

Heartbreaking and deeply unnecessary. Another immensely cruel practice that should have been consigned to the history books a century ago... #stopthewaronnature