I also like the in-built digital speedometer, in part as it proves you *can* get to 20mph on such machines, albeit at some effort.

I tried a couple of Voi bikes yesterday after someone recommended them. Less ubiquitous near me than Lime, but a new fleet, so smoother and less... grimy and sticky. Comfortable to ride and while the brakes are a bit spongy, at least you don't need orangutan-span hands to use them.

2. Ukrainian and Hong Kongers would only ever be in the UK on a temporary basis. Would be interesting to learn how and when Reform think Hong Kong might become safe for dissidents to return to.

Two things which stand out from the full Reform policy document on ending asylum. 1. It would be a hostile environment on steroids. There would be migration checks everywhere. This would, inevitably, be vast numbers of other people caught up in it.

It's another policy which feels most likely to appeal solely to the 20% or so Reform core vote, and also to harden other voters' resolve to vote however is needed to keep out a Reform government - as do many of their recent announcements.

Confirmation that a Reform UK government would mean Ice-style mass roundups and deportations. In fact, in one way the Reform plan would go further than Trump, in retrospectively stripping rights from people granted asylum as long as five years ago and tracking them down for removal.

A "printing error", you say?

A "slight printing error", apparently.

The document said a 2020 Climate Change Committee report said net zero would cost £957bn, rather than £487bn. CCC spokesperson: “We don’t recognise this number. The committee has previously offered to meet with Ms Badenoch and talk her through our advice. That offer is, of course, still open.”

This is, as it happens, something which will be appealing in the Home Counties seats the Tories lost to the Lib Dems in 2024. But it's hard to say how much this is deliberate strategy, and how much because Badenoch just hates inheritance tax.

Yes, inheritance tax is curiously unpopular. But this is essentially a giveaway for someone in, say, Twickenham (average property price c.£750,000) and not, say, Darlington (about £180,000).

The speech's big policy announcement is an end to inheritance tax being levied on primary residences. It is greeted with whoops in the hall – but it's another tax cut focused on the wealthy, and in this case on London and the south-east.

20 mins on, this is now an even longer and more rambling speech, still with only one notable section.

So far, this is a long and quite rambling pudding of a conference speech, with one, brief good section, where she attacked Reform for indulging racism.

It's a legal letter typed all in capitals.

A much better part of the speech - the best section yet – sees Badenoch give a concerted kicking to the idea, as indulged by some Reform MPs, that people from minority ethnic backgrounds can't be English. Certainly doesn't sound like a pact between the parties is imminent.

If anyone thinks this is an unfair summation, read the Telegraph obituary, which is - in its own quiet way – utterly brutal.

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.