Isn't it actually a road? I'd have expected greater pedantry from Gove, to be honest

Malmesbury, a place equally proud of being the burial location of the first king of all England and the first person in England to have been killed by a tiger

“Interactive curse” - I would like not to interact with the curse, please

This has gone down about as well as you might think - Joeli Brearley of Pregnant Then Screwed tells me it's "absolute nonsense" and "dog whistle politics that would actively damage families, businesses and society as a whole".

Unexpected intervention from Kemi Badenoch earlier today, appearing to suggest statutory maternity pay is an "excessive" burden and people need to exercise more "personal responsibility" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/kemi...

Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch said the regulatory burden needed to be lowered and people should exercise ‘personal responsibility’.

I think the interesting change is actually her Express interview where she says she'd leave the ECHR, which she has so far resisted doing (and at one point suggested was an 'easy answer') - bit of a shift towards Jenrick's position

The letter does also read a bit like 'I suddenly realised I probably wasn't going to get a ministerial job any time soon and I'm very angry about this'.

Re Rosie Duffield, fair to say not all Labour MPs are exactly distraught at her departure. One tells me: "Yes, they have a long-standing bunker mentality in the leader’s office and need better PLP engagement, but they’re at least doing something right if they never talk to her."

Can’t believe you’re not looking forward to Chicago celebrating St David’s day by turning their river into a giant leek

The existence of Northern Ireland played a role here, I would imagine