Taken at face value Donald Trump's embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce.
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is exploring launching private criminal proceedings against NatWest Group over the debanking scandal which resulted in the lender's former chief losing her job.
Farmers forced the prime minister to cut short a visit to a housing development as they drove tractors to the site in a protest against changes to inheritance tax.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been at the centre of political turmoil since the Trump administration announced it wanted to shut it down.