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Suddenly it makes sense. Lord Freud’s self-parodic comment about disabled people yesterday turns out to have been made specifically for the Daily Mail, an apparently longstanding arrangement that the paper has with the DWP in case of slow news days. In the event, it landed its own world exclusives about the eventual probability of UK interest rate rises and Princess Beatrice’s hat, but a contact at the Mail has let me have the original front page that it was going to run with until late last night.

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Baroness Hanham: The Church of England is well placed because, as my noble friend says, it has—I was going to say fingers in every pie, but I mean tentacles in every part.


The Church of England, yesterday