It won't lead any news bulletins today. But it's worth pointing out that today John Major was fiercely critical of both the notion the UK could leave the ECHR and handling of the Northern Ireland Protocol: ft.com/content/c26ff2… Pictured: me, just to the right of John Major, taking shorthand notes.

Thread: I Want to explain, in case anyone doesn't get the full resonance, why it's so utterly appalling that the Guardian chose to use a cartoon showing Jeremy Corbyn as John the Baptist on the day of the EHRC report into anti-semitism in Labour: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… The cartoon is a rendering of Caravaggio's Salome with the Head of John the Baptist:

@davidfirn @SellaTheChemist @citycyclists @FinancialTimes I hesitate to get into this again because it's the argument that got me drummed out of UK cycle activism and has caused me huge stress over the years. But there's plenty of evidence about what's happened in London. @davidfirn @SellaTheChemist @citycyclists @FinancialTimes When the segregated cycle superhighways went in, average traffic speeds in London fell at a time when traffic volumes were also falling, showing that the network's capacity had fallen.

I've been thinking about what is so terribly irritating about the sudden, urgent appeals that those of us who are broadly non-Conservative in outlook should hold our noses and vote for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party. It's that the people now demanding we vote Labour have shown so spectacularly little interest in what anyone else thought for well over four years now.
Corbynism has been an extraordinarily self-indulgent project.

We need to talk about Eeyore: Brexiteers keep describing people who are gloomy about #Brexit as Eeyores. Philip Hammond has been described as such ft.com/content/1315f6…