Faced with a cold winter and a tanking economy, Europe is taking its usual approach, says Matthew Karnitschnig in Politico: “Blame America.” First in the firing line are Joe Biden’s “Made in the USA” green energy subsidies, which European officials say will undermine their own industries. The “inconvenient truth” is that Europe could have created a similar, industry-boosting programme to address the energy crisis. Instead, we funnelled all our money into subsidising household bills – a much less effective, short-sighted strategy. Incredibly, European officials have also been (anonymously) accusing the US of profiteering from the Ukraine war, by selling more gas, at higher prices, and more weapons. That, too, is total rubbish.

My advice to “Labour Kremlinologists” is simple, says Helen Lewis in The Bluestocking: treat Keir Starmer like a stage magician. “Don’t listen to the patter, watch his hands.” Because while everything that comes out of his mouth is “soothing blah about unity and common purpose”, his actions are ruthless and pragmatic. Despite having a Jewish wife and kids, Starmer sat in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet through countless anti-semitism scandals – giving him enough of a loyalist sheen to succeed Corbyn as Labour leader. Yet within two months of securing the job, he sacked Corbyn’s favoured successor, Rebecca Long-Bailey. A few months after that, he suspended Corbyn from the Labour Party on a mere “technicality”.