Police forces should reveal the ethnicity of suspects charged in high-profile and sensitive cases, according to new guidelines issued by the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The change comes after officers initially refused to disclose the immigration status of two Afghan asylum seekers arrested over the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire. JD Vance had breakfast with Nigel Farage in the Cotswolds this morning, after meeting with wannabe Tory leader Robert Jenrick yesterday. The US vice-president’s press secretary said he had tried to set up a meeting with Kemi Badenoch, “a friend of his”, but that it hadn’t been possible because of “conflicting schedules”. Natural England’s targeted conservation projects have supported the recovery of 150 species. After relocating more than 15,000 individual animals and plants, and breeding more than 12,000 species for release into the wild, rare animals – including water voles, willow tits, hawksbeard mining bees and chough chicks – have returned to areas where they haven’t been seen for generations.

Let’s face it, Trump has stitched up Europe

In 1842, says Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, in UnHerd, China sent its top bureaucrat to Nanjing to discuss surrender terms in the First Opium War with the “ruthless British colonial administrator” Sir Henry Pottinger. In the resulting Treaty of Nanjing, China “gave everything” and received nothing in return – a humiliation that still haunts the country to this day. Last month, the European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen signed a “similarly shameful treaty” with Donald Trump. The details are “truly embarrassing”. While US goods will be exported to Europe tariff-free, European exports to the US will be slapped with a 15% levy. Europe even threw in a promise of $600bn in fresh investments into the US economy, and to buy $750bn of US oil and gas by the end of 2028.

It’s not just that this is, in the words of former French PM Michel Barnier, an “admission of weakness” for Europe. Von der Leyen has also overlooked the “key lesson” from Trump’s first term: never make promises you can’t deliver. The European Commission cannot “compel” private companies to send their money to America, and “neither the promised money nor the requisite capacity exists”. The whole thing is “pure fantasy”. Trump knows all this. So when the EU does breach its pledges, he’ll be able to extract “more humiliating concessions”. Europe’s approach reminds me of Britain’s shifting stance during Brexit negotiations: from “We shall retaliate if they dare squeeze us” to “No deal is better than a bad deal” to “Any deal please, we are desperate”. The result will ensure that Europe remains “but a vassal in an Atlanticist empire”.

👋🇪🇺 My suspicion is that the reason Trump hit the UK with a tariff rate of only 10%, rather than the 15% for Europe, was nothing to do with economic policy or his Anglophilia. He did it to drive a wedge between London and Brussels – to render Brexit, the harbinger of his own 2016 victory, “well and truly irreversible”.