As I write this, mounds of bin bags are continuing to pile up on Birmingham 's festering streets. Fly-tipping is rife, as are the rats - some as big as cats - that scurry through the streets.
Sir Keir Starmer has woken up to the fact that his policies are killing one of Britain's last successful manufacturing industries, the £90-billion-a-year car industry, on which 800,000 jobs depend.
MATT BARLOW: It was the morning after England had been demolished by Germany in the Under-21 Euros final and Sir Trevor Brooking was sifting through the debris in a Malmo hotel.
The CIA, FBI, German intelligence and the former head of MI6 all say they think Covid started with a lab leak. Why do members of the scientific and media establishments still have their heads in the …
MATT BARLOW: Few had it down as a good development for Raphinha when Lamine Yamal burst from Barcelona's youth ranks to make the position on the right wing his own.
MATT BARLOW: There is an argument that Grealish would be more suited to playing more centrally. With his head up and his eye for a pass, he will find better angles when not pinned on to the left wing.