With this deal, the Trump administration has effectively declared war on Ukraine - and, by extension, the rest of Europe. Think about that for a moment.

It was more of a “roar”! “fffwwwoooaaarrrr” makes it sound like something Sid James would have said.

For a topical discussion on EU reaccession, and the “late lamented” Jeffrey Archer…

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

Here’s a 32-year-old Nadhim Zahawi - then working as Jeffrey Archer’s press spokesperson on his Mayoral campaign - reading out Archer’s resignation statement, after the publication of the evidence of perjury that eventually saw Archer jailed.

Hatchard's bookshop gives an annual booze-up for its authors. On more than one occasion, I've found myself within a metre or two of both Jeffrey Archer, and his biographer Michael Crick. I always said hello to Michael, and beat a hasty but dignified retreat from Archer.

Kemi Badenoch’s literally calling it 'The Right Way'. In the original 1990 'House of Cards', that was a spoof, not a serious proposition.

Anthony Blunt resigned from the Travellers Club a week before his public exposure, to spare the club the embarrassment of his still being described as a member. According to his Cambridge staircase neighbour John Cairncross, Blunt had first been urged to join the Travellers by his KGB handler.

His concluding words, “I hope to be able to go back and do some work on art history,” seem almost touchingly naive. He died three and a half years later, having been pretty universally shunned.

Interview highlights include Blunt saying he had “no objection at all” to being stripped of his knighthood, but “I mind very much” being booted out as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Reminds me of one of Stephen Fry's Trefusis monologues, in which the character admits to having been a spy for decades, ever since he was recruited at Cambridge, but never having bothered to ask which side he was working for: "Loyalty to one's friends is the most important thing."

I’ll have a listen, thanks. After a summer of Wagner, it’s something I’ve been grappling with!

I grew up with this show, and never cease to be amazed at how it doesn’t age. The characters are beautifully written and played; and above all, it’s so pacy. No wonder Phil Silvers ended up having a string of strokes, throwing himself into the scenarios with such aplomb.

Liberal England: Violet Bonham Carter and Mary Stocks remember the struggle for women's suffrage A television discussion from 1968, chaired by a young Joan Bakewell, with two women who were there.

Mark Carney graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1985. He got his Masters & PHD in Economics at Oxford. He worked at Goldman Sachs. He was the governor of the Bank of England, then the governor of the Bank of Canada. Here's Trump's background in "economics"🙄, from his niece, Mary Trump: