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In today’s newsletter: As the investigation into the shooting death of a nine-year-old girl continues, wider questions about gun violence, police austerity and community cooperation are being asked

Latest updates: thinktank says plan would not help poorest least able to cope with rise in costs

Scotland Yard facing greater scrutiny and pressure to produce improvement plan following criticisms by watchdog

While much of Britain is outraged, Tories are praising Boris Johnson’s powers of survival. They too are beyond shame, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

In today’s newsletter: A leaked draft of a review of the government’s anti-radicalisation strategy has drawn criticism from experts in the field. Archie Bland and Nimo Omer find out why

Latest updates: Susan Hall, chair of London Assembly’s police and crime committee, says ‘policing work will continue’

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PRESENTED BY Good Friday morning. POLL EXCLUSIVE: A new poll carried out for POLITICO by Redfield and Wilton Strategies shows Britons remain highly cautious of the coronavirus and are continuing to take significant personal precautions following “freedom day” — possibly helping to explain the recent fall in COVID cases. In a sign that the public is still very wary of the virus, 46 percent of the 1,500 Brits polled on Thursday think Boris Johnson lifted restrictions too soon on July 19, ...

Political campaigns like this are best described as performative cruelty, a policy-light approach whose central purpose is to savour the potential anguish of those it defines as threats. Donald Trump was a master of it; for him, the cruelty was all. Among all current British politicians, performative cruelty is also Patel’s particular stock in trade. It is to be found everywhere in her politics: in her approach to asylum seekers in the Channel, to the penal system and to crime. It is there...

This photo was taken by K Stewart and placed on Flickr on July 8th 2008. It shows the wonderful old original pub name board. See also this related discussion…