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Comment Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | This is no constitutional outrage Iain Duncan Smith | Impartiality of Speaker is crucial to our constitution Fraser Nelson | Davidson made a joke party serious by fighting for creed Jeremy Warner | We're now playing the blame game over Brexit Hannah Betts | Fasting isn't the way forward - can't we just eat normally? Editor's choice 'Untouchable' | The documentary giving the Harvey Weinstein accusers a voice Rise of the 'green pound' | Would you pay £95 for a water bottle?    Property doctors | Can I force noisy upstairs neighbours to install carpet? Business and money briefing Brought into Focus | Almost £1.7bn was wiped off the value of Micro Focus yesterday after Britain's second-biggest listed tech company issued a profit warning. As Matthew Field reports, it could trigger its ejection from the FTSE 100 next week and pave the … [Read more...] about Friday morning news briefing: ‘Shut down the streets’

Michel Barnier: Withdrawal Agreement 'only option' for orderly Brexit Jeremy Hunt: 'Ultra hardliner' would fail in Brexit renegotiation Matt Hancock: 'Not against' no deal  - but it 'won't happen' Rory Stewart admits smoking opium in Iran as he continues tour of UK   Priti Patel: It's time to make the Conservative Party Conservative again Sign up: Brexit Whatsapp updates and the Brexit Bulletin​ Michel Barnier said the existing Withdrawal Agreement is "the only option" for the UK if it wants to leave the EU in an orderly fashion as he blamed British "nostalgia" for the 2016 Brexit vote. … [Read more...] about brexit latest news conservative party tory leadership

Mattis also said the "first thing" the administration is considering is why chemical weapons are being used at all in Syria. Russia was a guarantor of a deal the Obama administration struck in 2013 in which Syria was to have removed all of its chemical weapons. Mattis added that the administration will work with other countries to "address this issue." … [Read more...] about The Latest: Trump says Syria attack will be met ‘forcefully’

Good reads Reason magazine offers a terrific explanation of why the FBI raid on the office of Michael Cohen – President Trump's personal lawyer – is a really big deal....The New York Times serves up a scoop about the Mueller investigation's probe into a $150,000 Ukrainian payment to Donald Trump's foundation in 2015...Politico explains how President Trump thrives in "news deserts" ... The New York Times says Republicans will try to save their House majority by running against impeachment ...And The Washington Post's David Montgomery – formerly of The Buffalo News – notes that Ohio's Dennis Kucinich proved to be the future of American politics. … [Read more...] about The Briefing: The Syrian snake that bites U.S. presidents

“This was a big mistake on our part, and I'm sorry for it,” he wrote on Facebook’s blog 12 years ago. "We really messed this one up," he said. "We did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them." … [Read more...] about The Briefing: Collins is next stop on Zuckerberg’s ‘apology tour’