It has been a week of firsts for the man once known as Prince Andrew and for our monarchy. No senior royal has been arrested on such serious charges since the ill-fated Charles I in 1647.
Having already presided over 14 U-turns, when will Sir Keir Starmer execute his 15th? The answer is unfolding before our eyes. It lies in the PM's decision to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
President Trump's public utterances are hardly noted for their accuracy, understatement, modesty, realism or compassion. But on Friday afternoon he managed to hit a new low, even for him.
After a miserable 18 months in which almost nothing seems to have gone well for the Labour government, ministers have taken to claiming 2026 will be the year the country turns the corner.
Dame Antonia Romeo is known by the curious nickname 'Strong White'. The sobriquet is not a reference to the Oxford-educated diplomat's taste in coffee, neither to the strength of her ambitions.