That's a more mixed picture, with variations between the pollsters, so no one simple answer (as yet - it may become clearer if the trend continues and grows).

And also: bsky.app/profile/elec...

The core point is about it being a simpler, more focused initial step - and so one that's got a greater chance of being achieved as a step on the road to fixing our relations with the rest of Europe.

Is Miliband doing a series explaining the VAT rules to us all?

I love the fact that this could either be completely serious or fully satirical.

I'm now wishing I'd kept my childhood comics...!

Tbf a later Katie Razzall piece was rather good, but if anything reinforces the point that divorcing headlines from explanation so heavily is not necessary; it's an editorial choice.

There was a great of example of this with the BBC news ticker recently about a BBC Board member resigning - with no information on why or what their views were, and (at least in the news bit that I watched) no accompanying story to explain the ticker either.

If you don't mind me asking, what's the reason you felt that in your own role you couldn't do more to give it extended coverage?

I've had a horrible realisation. I had seen the movie years ago, successfully removed it from my memory and now the podcast has started bringing back fragments of the film.

If it's some consolation, I love that you do (and you've got some money from me over the years as a result too!).

Clue:

A mixed bag this book: highly opinionated author often lets strength of his views run well ahead of his evidence, but also strikes some very persuasive blows against the idea of a posh clique of incompetents being the story of much of MI5 and MI6 up against Russian moles.

Screenshot is from tomorrow's The Week in Polls, available from 6pm Sunday at theweekinpolls.substack.com