Good thread from Conleth on the sorts of things voters do and don't consider weird and how the Tories can avoid falling into the 'weird' trap as they go through the leadership contest and beyond.

One useful thing to emerge from the otherwise mind boggling “Churchill was the bad guy” takes this week from some alt right commentators is that it exposes again that for much of the pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine faction tyrant appeasement is a feature not a bug.

The 1700 page Grenfell Inquiry report has been published. It finds the catastrophe was the result of “decades of failure” by central government to prevent the spread of combustible cladding alongside the “systematic dishonesty” of huge companies whose products spread the fire.

Not often you get set of front from across the political spectrum in agreement

Really enjoyed taking part this week on Quiet Riot. Prof Paul Dolan work is fascinating and the show even includes a good natured debate with Alex Andreou on why I thought Kemi Badenoch was right to push back so strongly on David Tennant!

Reading Playbook today striking how much Labour has in the pipeline for the Autumn - wonder if falling approval ratings were at least in part driven by summer (and riots crowding out a substantive agenda) & wave of public focused legislative activity in Autumn pulls them back up

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