It is not often one interview causes deep anxiety in Kyiv and general dismay across Europe's major capitals. But Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, managed it.
As I tore open the brown envelope, three small black-and-white photographs slipped from a single sheet of paper on to my desk. I gazed at them and thought my heart might miss a beat.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall tried and failed to deflect criticism about PIPs from the Tories. Claims are rising by the day and the cost is substantial. An opportunity squandered.
ANDREW PIERCE: Little-known Tory party chairman Nigel Huddleston (right) and the entire party board are heading to the Bodleian Library in Oxford to examine the official party archive.
Arriving by helicopter for the Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday, Nigel Farage was full of his trademark swagger. Behind the scenes, however, he has been less self-assured over recent days.
Not content with undermining NATO and siding with Russia in Ukraine's struggle for survival, President Trump now seems determined to take a wrecking ball to the mighty US economy.
Not content with undermining NATO and siding with Russia in Ukraine's struggle for survival, President Trump now seems determined to take a wrecking ball to the mighty US economy.
The PM was overheard inviting the rumbustious broadcaster to No 10 to share a few tips on 'dealing with the Donald', after the pair were both on Laura Kuenssberg's BBC1 Sunday show.
For Trump, freedom and democracy - the core values of the country he leads and the Atlantic Alliance which has united the US and Europe for 80 years - mean nothing.
An insurgent political party should be disciplined and united. But Reform - which only a week ago seemed to have a serious prospect of forming the next Government - now looks close to imploding.