Excellent insightful column about what will be in Rachel Reeves’ budget by @chrisgiles.bsky.social:

A ‘full fat’ Budget is impossible — what are the trade-offs?

[FREE TO READ] Traditional Labour measures on tax and borrowing will need to be balanced with thinner fare to keep to fiscal constraints

Marvellous weekend essay on Lebanon and the Middle East:

Israel, Lebanon and the mirage of a new Middle East

Lebanese academic and diplomat Ghassan Salamé on how conflict engulfed his country — and why it is folly to try to reshape the region by force

Hugely respect Chris Giles as I do - and the article overall is indeed terrific (and it’s deeply unfair I’m picking on him, etc.), this kind of impartiality formulation is a real bugbear of mine: the left will say this; the right will say this. Well then: in this case the left is right.