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UK TV host Graham Norton quits Twitter after cancer culture and JK Rowling comments on trans issues sparks heated debate.

Now Trussonomics is dead, even the prime minister’s supporters are wondering: what’s the point of her government? says the Spectator’s deputy political editor, Katy Balls

In today’s newsletter: Liz Truss gives her first PMQs since the fiscal statement that blew up her premiership and may hope to calm colleagues. But from benefits cuts to despairing backbenchers, she has a lot to deal with

The phrase ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ explains some of the curious coalitions that are forming, says the Spectator’s deputy political editor, Katy Balls

The UK is currently negotiating a trade agreement with India

New home secretary objects to increasing visas for Indians and critiques predecessor’s attempt to return overstayers

Less than a month in, the PM’s political capital is draining away. And party conference is unlikely to offer any relief, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls

A workaholic her entire life, Mantel produced some of this century’s greatest historical novels

Sporty Spice is telling it like it is in her new memoir, which details the true gruelling reality of being in the world’s biggest girlband. She looks back at it all, and what she’s learned, with Jessie Thompson

During the second world war there were notable exceptions to the at times slavish patriotic devotion the press showed to the government line. Weekly political titles such as New Statesman and Nation, the Spectator and the Economist challenged government policy more consistently than daily newspapers.

The prime minister has kept her friends close. But will that be enough, when winter bites, asks Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor