In the headlines
“Boat migrants are the Tories’ biggest problem,” says James Forsyth in The Times. More than 23,500 people have made the journey to Britain by small boat since January, nearly triple the number who came last year. Boris Johnson “feels the politics of this profoundly”, an ally told the paper: it makes a mockery of his pledge to “take back control”. Lockdowns are returning to Europe as Covid surges again. Austria is entering a full national lockdown for up to 20 days and Germany has recorded a record 65,371 daily cases. A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, Diego and I, has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for a record £25.9m. It’s of her with her artist husband, Diego Rivera. “Now we might say that Diego Rivera is the husband of Frida Kahlo,” a curator told The New York Times, “because she is outshining him.”