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RUNNING TOTALS
A range of Labour MPs spent the spring hoovering up cash from donors for their own potential challenges to Keir Starmer.

NUTTALL FACTORY
Reform UK has started selecting parliamentary candidates, but the man it has chosen to oversee its vetting process has his own history of telling porkies.

SPACE RACE
Britain’s armed forces have reportedly signed up to a militarised satellite network, Starshield, which is owned by SpaceX – and therefore Elon Musk.

TICKETS SQUEEZE
Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s stance over World Cup ticket prices marks the culmination of his quest to turn the people’s game into the rich people’s game.

SLAPP CACHE
Court documents reveal how Carter-Fuck and its client, Mohamed Amersi, have managed to frustrate a three-year inquiry by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

MATES’ RATES
Lord Houchen spouted yet more inaccuracies in front of the oversight and scrutiny committee at his Tees Valley Combined Authority.

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Why Burnham must resign immediately even though he’s not prime minister yet... Disaster for Labour as Labour wins by-election... Why Andy Burnham is a shameless opportunist, by Boris Johnson... Why social media/fossil fuel/smoking is not at all bad for you... World delighted for Musk... Versailles Ironyometer blows up... Social media ban hits Nurseryland... World Cup ‘hydration break’ criticised... Call You And Yours: how miserable has your summer been so far?, as told to Craig Brown

Bleak house
A children’s home had just one child – and still it failed them

Screen test
What the under-16s social media ban means

What a chancer
Richard Desmond’s big lottery loss

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