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[Holiness @F1BigData]

Kimi Antonelli has invented the Super Grand Slam this weekend

✅ Pole
✅ Fastest lap
✅ Win
✅ All laps led
✅ Fastest Pit Stop
✅ Driver of the day
✅ 10 in the Power Rankings

[Richard Moore @XChiefMI6]

Magnificent tribute @mikepompeo and so true to the spirit of our partnership with @CIA . Thank you Mike.

[ESPN F1 @ESPNF1]

Kimi Antonelli is the first Mercedes driver to win five straight races since Lewis Hamilton in 2020 🤝

[Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team @MercedesAMGF1]

Can George get the ENTIRE F1 grid to sign Jack Wolff’s cards? 🙌🖊️

Toto and Susie are gonna have one happy son! 👏

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

We see here an example of what @jo3hill calls 'everythingism' or @ezraklein 'everything-bagel liberalism' – nice-sounding obligations have been piled on housebuilders until the accumulated weight has crushed the sector, resulting in rising homelessness and housing poverty.

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

I’m meant to be enjoying a music festival in Romania but.. this is a banger of a piece

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Mandelson files: Bloomberg end-day wrap with @Joe_Mayes @LucyGJWhite

Today’s disclosures lay bare the rifts and toxicity that threaten to sink not just Starmer but the rest of Labour too

Mandelson is a pariah but his damning private assessments only echo what many in Labour have been saying privately for the last 18 months

“Keir lacks verve as does the cabinet as a whole… The cycle has been the same, advance / buckle / advance / buckle.” Many in the party across different factions have been saying the same thing for ages

Most politically damning is the Pat McFadden comment that Labour MPs want to focus on “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others.” That is a quote that damns the entire Labour project. You can expect the Tories and Reform to repeat it for years

Mandelson on Streeting - “pathetic” and “experiencing a midlife crisis” - and “stupid” Miliband simply reflect the way senior Labour people on all sides have been talking about each other ever since they were elected

The most newsworthy messages released today had nothing whatsoever to do with the circumstances surrounding Mandelson’s appointment - they are simply salacious political revelations that badly damage Labour

It makes it all the more extraordinary that Labour MPs decided to back Kemi Badenoch’s humble address that was so broad it forced full publication of all these messages - the biggest direct hit the Tories have landed so far this parliament

https://t.co/9YOhnk3Vpg

[Ryan Wain @ryan_wain]

Labour’s mission hasn’t changed but how we achieve it in 2026 has.

This for me captures the @InstituteGC essay brilliantly and it’s why a battle of ideas is critical. It runs through TB’s follow-up in today’s @ObserverUK. 👇

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

Great piece by @FraserNelson in today’s Times. This sentence in particular stood out:

“Left or right, nationalist or unionist, populist or centrist: all know that the welfare state needs to go back to what it was originally built upon. That is: support should be a bridge back into life, not a destination.”

Fraser deserves huge credit for championing this issue over many years, and I hope Alan Milburn’s interim report encourages all parties to begin focusing on a unified approach to welfare reform and tackling the NEETs crisis over the summer.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Of every £25 spent on welfare for the young, just £1 goes on helping them find work.

For adults, it's £29 for every £1. An outrage, and always has been. Only now has someone in power said so.

My column on the Milburn review

https://t.co/IslayB12CY

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

Dyed in the wool football fans well remember the outrage when live, top-flight football first ‘disappeared’ onto Sky Sports in the early 1990s and diehards said it would totally ruin the game. Undeterred, my dear buddies David Hill (Hilly) and Vic Wakeling took TV sports coverage by the scruff of the neck and fundamentally changed football forever.

Monday night football, multiple camera angles, even the ubiquitous score and clock bug in the top left corner of the screen, felt revolutionary when the creative disruptor and master builder took to the stage. Suddenly football looked brighter, slicker and much more dramatic. There were even cheerleaders and rock bands on occasion although this was perhaps a Pom Pom too far?

Nevertheless, the influx of cash from Sky transformed the sport providing the money for significantly improved stadia for domestic fans and AAA access to eager global audiences tuning in to enjoy the magic of world-class players.

This is the awkward truth in the current row over TNT and the Champions League Final. Fans (including the PM) understandably want huge national sporting moments to be free-to-air, especially as the CLF was available free last year. The uncomfortable truth though is that modern football was built on subscription television. It just was.

Many nay-sayers will wax lyrical about how much they hate the cost, but surely they must concede that pay TV money fundamentally changed English football from a crumbling domestic sport into the global entertainment giant it is today.

In my opinion, the moral panic over TNT putting the ArsenalvPSG match behind a £5 paywall on HBO Max is completely detached from the economic reality of the sport we love.

Expecting broadcasters to swallow a multi-billion-pound rights fee to then give away their crown jewel on YouTube for free is frankly for the birds. Someone has to foot the bill, don’t you think?

Come on you Gunners.

Full disclosure: I was employed by Sky for 36 years.

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

If the Burnham critique of Blair was he was silent on inequality, then the critique of Burnham’s essay in The Times is how poorly it understands the drivers of economic growth. His diagnosis is that good growth stems from (local) control of economic essentials.

I’m afraid tight control of the planning system has led to UK building houses at half the rate of the G7 - fuelling rent inflation. Control of low pay rates has accelerated the rise of youth unemployment and NEETs (Milburn Report). Control of energy permissioning has led to the highest electricity costs in the IEA, and control of capital allocation has shrunk bank lending to the economy to the lowest in 30 years.

The problem is that all these started off as noble microeconomic aims (preventing urban sprawl, reducing in-work poverty, net zero, reducing risky lending), justifying tight control, that have combined/ run too far to now create a huge macroeconomic headwind in the form of elevated inflation and stagnant per capita growth.

I get it, Burnham must knock on 1000s of doors in and around Manchester and be told that voters don’t feel they have any control over their economic conditions. Hell, this was why “take back control” was such a seductive soundbite a decade ago.

The argument to take to the country could be we will be a centre-left govt that enables much faster delivery of housing, pluralism of energy, and reduced frictions to deploying capital. And make it much easier to employ young people. And that, in turn, will reduce inflation in key staples/ raise living standards.

That argument isn’t being made from Makerfield it seems.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Yes, I get it, you all hate Tony Blair etc you’ll find loads to disagree with here I’m sure - but the quality of analysis of our problems and what any potential leader ought to be thinking about if they want to solve them puts this essay light years ahead of what any current contender for national leadership has offered. Anyone who wants to be an effective prime minister (including the current one) should read it

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

Tony Blair issues warning on benefits.

“You can’t end up in a position where you are spending more on incapacity benefits than defence.

“The triple lock…is not affordable.

“We are taxing spending & borrowing too much. If we carry on like this we will not be able to grow.”

[Christian Hewgill @ChrisHewgill]

Devastated for George and devastated for us. Kimi and George were giving us a fantastic race. I didn’t care which one of them won really but was loving watching the scrap

#F1 #CanadianGP

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Unemployment is now 5% and only half of under-25s are in paid employment.

Every Labour leadership contender should have a coherent answer to how we can reverse these trends and avoid creating a lost generation of young people.

Today's @thetimes column👇
https://t.co/Bnli5IcVry

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

There is a very simple reason the Morrisons story is politically dangerous for Labour.

It collapses the entire moral story they tell about themselves.

Labour wants voters to believe that every tax rise, every employment cost, every regulation and every intervention is really just “standing up for working people”.

Then a major supermarket says it is closing around 100 convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and says government policy choices have made returning those stores to profitability even harder.

So who exactly is being protected here?
The worker whose job is now at risk?
The pensioner who loses the local shop?
The family that now has less competition nearby?
The high street with another shuttered unit?
The customer already paying more for food?

This is the problem with performative economics.

It sounds noble in a speech.

It polls well in a focus group.

It gives ministers a line to use on television.

But businesses do not operate in speeches.

They operate in margins.

If a shop loses money, it closes.

If staff become too expensive relative to revenue, hours get cut.

If compliance costs rise, expansion slows. If government keeps treating employers like an endless cash machine, employers eventually protect themselves.

And then Labour acts shocked.

The phrase from Morrisons should haunt ministers: “Government policy choices.”

Not bad weather.
Not bad luck.
Not vibes.

Choices.

A choice to make employment more expensive.
A choice to raise the cost base.
A choice to squeeze the same retailers you then demand must lower prices.

Labour cannot keep pretending there is no connection between the policies it announces and the consequences that follow.

The bill always arrives.
This time it is arriving in the form of 100 shop closures.

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

I’ve been writing about Andy Burnham in Manchester for a while. We’ve had a few run-ins but I think he has qualities that many people don’t appreciate and weaknesses that spell trouble.

I wrote this for @ManchesterMill - I hope it’s insightful and fair.

https://t.co/Vh6P57t40G

[Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team @MercedesAMGF1]

George, Lewis, Kimi ⚔️ A three way family fight for pole 💪

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

If you earned £1,000,000 a day from when Napoleon was born, you would have less money than HS2's projected cost.

Stuff like this, alongside bat tunnels, is why.