Monaco GP 2026 summary

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Monaco is usually dull but the this is one of the funniest races I’ve seen in ages

Oopsie

This week another member of the @ifgacademy.bsky.social team is on the Inside Briefing podcast. Some very thoughtful and expert analysis from @aliceolilly.bsky.social of serious issues with no easy answers. She speaks alongside other @instituteforgovernment.org.uk colleagues - really worth a listen.

Have been reading this ever since I saw Giles’ tweet and a) it’s great b) ok fine turns out that politics pre-1832 was both important and interesting c) I’ve massively underestimated the importance of *political economy* as the key driver of British constitutional history

‘Test cricket is boring’: silly people

Government plan to use parliament to protect against judicial review for clean energy infrastructure This could help speed up infrastructure, but reforms won't be easy to implement and should be accompanied by a wider assessment of parliament's role in infrastructure Some thoughts from me 👇

The experience of watching any nature documentary is basically going ‘aww’ and then thirty seconds later going ‘oh no’ in a constant loop

EVENT | Are private members' bills a good way for MPs to decide on difficult policy issues? 📅Thursday 4 June (tomorrow), 12:30–13:30 Join us tomorrow as an expert panel explore the value and effectiveness of private members' bills, and the wider role of backbenchers in shaping policy.

I hate the trains and how unreliable and expensive they are and how rubbish the WiFi is and how complicated booking tickets/changing tickets/claim refunds/logging onto the bloody WiFi is and no I’m still not home, why do you ask

Trains to Leeds all borked so try to get home via Manchester but then train to Manchester is running late which, combined with tram works, means that I can’t get across Manchester in time for a train to Leeds unless I’m happy to get home at gone 1am

this is going to go on all summer, isn't it

Because of the way the emails included in response to the humble address are formatted, many of them have the standard “this email is intended for the addressee(s) only” disclaimer at the bottom which, in the circumstance, is sort of amusing

Catching up after two weeks away (travelling round France, didn't crash the hire car, yes it was very hot, had a lovely time, thanks for asking) and there's lots to catch up on from my fab @instituteforgovernment.org.uk colleagues...

EVENT | Are private members' bills a good way for MPs to decide on difficult policy issues? 📅Thursday 4 June, 12:30–13:30 Join us as an expert panel explore the value and effectiveness of private members' bills, and the wider role of backbenchers in shaping policy.

Horrific. Reading this made my blood boil. At how many hospital trusts and how many times must we have these inquiries before something changes?

Very much missing living in north London today and living vicariously through everybody else’s social media ❤️

What a season.

I don’t want to be angry with players because it’s not the right way to be but those two penalties were abysmal

You just don’t do that with a penalty. You don’t.

I think that if you have a system to check whether a decision is good or not, it makes sense to use it to check whether a decision is good or not

Strategic idea for Arsenal: score

A thing about football is that I’ve always hated it

No

I liked it better when it was half time

My mood going into this game: wild, rock solid confidence. Of course we are going to win My mood after a first half in which we went ahead through a good goal and have controlled the game: Terror and despair

The problem is the phenomenon known as The Arsenal Conundrum: -Arsenal are losing? Nerve-wracking - Arsenal are drawing? Nerve-wracking - Arsenal are winning? Nerve-wracking

So good, football A great sport, always said it

The baby has her Arsenal top on and is ready to learn about sporting disappointment

Most summer Friday content I’ve ever seen (complimentary)

sorry what

This is a wild and extremely depressing read www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

EVENT | Are private members' bills a good way for MPs to decide on difficult policy issues? 📅Thursday 4 June, 12:30–13:30 Join us as an expert panel explore the value and effectiveness of private members' bills, and the wider role of backbenchers in shaping policy.

Certainly a lot of Weather happening over Leeds this morning

Areas of Research Interest are so useful to academics and experts outside of government who are keen to use their research to inform policy making- if that’s you, do take a look at these new ones from DCMS!

If this is a “highly unusual intervention” I would be interested to know what frequent interventions looked like

Well done to CBeebies for getting Joe Marler to read a bedtime story that’s all about people not believing you even when you’re telling the truth. Clearly the producers are Celeb Traitors fans

EVENT | Are private members' bills a good way for MPs to decide on difficult policy issues? 📅Thursday 4 June, 12:30–13:30 Join us as an expert panel explore the value and effectiveness of private members' bills, and the wider role of backbenchers in shaping policy.

Kimi Antonelli hype train go choo choo

Something nicely poetic about the adaptation of Dear England being on tv tonight, hours after Bukayo Saka lifted the Premier League trophy

This photo ❤️😭🎉

there's something really lovely about wrighty on sky, chatting to ødegaard and arteta on the day arsenal lift the trophy and they all wore number 8

A thing I enjoy at this time of year in a World Cup cycle are all of the adverts that are World Cup themed and feature players who have not, in fact, been selected for the World Cup

Absolutely glorious to be able to see the Man City score and simply not care

Toddler update: my husband let her taste his ice cream and she took the ice cream and ran. My husband has tried to bribe her to give it back my replacing it with a biscuit. Anyway now the toddler has an ice cream and a biscuit

Mercedes marking the tenth anniversary of their last driver civil war with a new driver civil war

As if things weren’t already bad enough for Phil Foden, this morning my toddler was playing with some free football stickers she got given, which included Phil. We laid them out on the floor, she walked over them, trod on Phil, and he got stuck to her foot.

This is correct

My daughter said ‘mama’ for the first time 🥹