He'll be the first non-white Deputy PM.

Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.

To everyone saying "the left shouldn't just roll over in the face of public opinion" my (I thought obvious) point is that you'll have a better chance of a getting a hearing on the risks if you acknowledge that a lot of people get some benefit out of it rather than just sounding entirely anti.

Sadiq Khan campaigned for years promising London great things if London had a Labour mayor while the UK had a Labour government.

London voted overwhelmingly for Labour, and so far has been relentlessly punished for doing so. Make it make sense.

Also bravo Baroness Sue Campbell who transformed our Olympic team and then transformed our women's football team. Extraordinary record.

They were wrong then. They’ll be wrong again.

If Serco win a contract to run a generic "high potential" training scheme it will be dogshit. Everyone knows that. But "procurement best practice". It's so dumb.

I know there'll be people shooting this down, but in the last week you've had:

1. A front page editorial in People's Daily
2. Xi Jinping
3. Qiushi, the CCP's official journal

All pointing at the problems of oversupply in the economy, with a focus on price wars

“Oversupply has caused some industries to fall into ‘involutionary’ competition… forming a negative feedback effect.”

A rare (although less so this week) public admission that excess capacity is driving self-defeating competition