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Kemi Badenoch’s Tory revival continues 5th behind Restore

In a summer when they’ve already spent 25 times that on transfers, that’s the equivalent of a slap on the wrist for blatant cheating. Not much of a precedent for the 115 charges www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Chelsea fined £10m and given suspended transfer ban by FA over agent breachesThe club escaped a suspended six-point deduction for the infringements after appealing against the original punishment.www.theguardian.com

Today programme mispronouncing Redruth while asking what devolution does for it is a metaphor for something or other

Even the Telegraph website is now trolling Heath

Rarely agreed more with a prime minister more than I do with Andy Burnham on social care. Guessing they anyone with experience of the system will do too while remembering the previous failed attempts at reform

Good, nuanced piece on the pros and cons of rent control www.ft.com/content/975d... Can rent controls ever work?

Can rent controls ever work?The policy is back in favour with progressives, but critics say it benefits only existing tenants and saps investmentwww.ft.com

'Woke' health and safety? 25 construction workers were killed last year (25 too many) but in the 1980s there were 150-200 deaths a year www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

No 11 gets my vote

‘I just really want to give the listeners the [housebuilding] figures,’ says Amol Rajan on Today. Then gets the figures hopelessly wrong 🤦‍♂️

Maybe I haven’t been paying attention but I found this piece on the rise of for profit franchises in higher education genuinely gobsmacking giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The UK’s biggest university is a private companySupporters say franchised providers widen access to further education, but others doubt the real value of their ‘no frills’ coursesgiftarticle.ft.com

‘The Wang Fuk Court fire was preventable but not prevented. It was foreseeable but not foreseen’ www.ft.com/content/b0dc... ‘Litany of failures’ behind Hong Kong’s worst tragedy in decades

‘Litany of failures’ behind Hong Kong’s worst tragedy in decadesLawyers investigating the fire that killed 168 people point to ‘unscrupulous’ contractors and ‘systemic’ issues with regulationwww.ft.com

Angela Rayner returning as housing secretary + Matthew Pennycook remaining as housing minister + John Healey as chancellor = very good outcome of reshuffle for housing. Hard to think of a better one

John Healey as housing secretary would have been good but John Healey as a chancellor who gets housing is arguably even better

Great that Burnham promising to end rough sleeping but worth pointing out that a) so did the 2019 Tory manifesto and b) both the Scottish and Welsh Governments have plans to end homelessness as a whole. Still questions about whether/when that can be achieved but much more ambitious than England

I love that Lamine and Yamal are the names of two friends of his parents who helped out his family when he was a kid

Even the BBC is turning it into an ad break

On the plus side Trump will hate this bit

In my experience (admittedly mostly in Mining League Division 3) the longer the half time break the more greater the chances you cramp up in the second half

New York New Jersey isn’t even a proper place

Turned in the football hoping to miss the closing ceremony but failed. Then wondered who’s the old git? Then realised it was Robbie Williams and felt like an even older git (At least Robbie is a football fan though..)