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The centrist duo (pictured right inset) took to the UK's capital this week as part of their UK tour (pictured centre), entertaining hordes of fans (pictured left and right) with their live show of their podcast, which attracts a staggering 2.5 million listens each week. While their tour might not include glitter and friendship bracelets, it does have a tight knit fanbase packing out venues, with some even arriving in shirts (pictured left inset) with the duo's face on.

Business is often criticised for being short-termist. Compared with the constant churn of ministers in the past decade under the Tories and the coalition, however, many FTSE 100 boardrooms look like models of stability. The average tenure of a FTSE 100 boss is five and a half years, according to research by investment experts at AJ Bell. That is significantly longer than the shelf-life of most of the politicians with whom business leaders have had to deal over the past few years. The ever-changing dramatis personae makes relationships with business harder.

Rory Stewart recently revealed that he is in therapy. I ask why. His answer is genuinely surprising. 'Part of it is revealed in questions like: why am I so obsessively angry with Boris Johnson? Why do I see him as the representative of the sum of all evils in the world? That's definitely one of the subjects I'm a bit troubled by - how obsessive I am and why I've turned him into this kind of emblem of everything that's wrong.'

GT Karber (left), 37, from Los Angeles , saw off the Duke of Sussex's Spare as well as works from the likes of Britney Spears and Rory Stewart at last night's The British Book Awards. Karber sketched his first puzzle on a napkin for a friend at a coffee shop before going on to create a computer code that would automatically generate more and began posting them online. He soon came up with a host of characters including detective Deductive Logico, who was inspired by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Now he has beaten Prince Harry's explosive tell-all memoir to the prestigious award naming his work as the best book of 2023.

Former Newsnight and BBC presenter Emily Maitlis will co-host the election special alongside Channel 4 news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Hosts of The Rest is Politics podcast Rory Stewart and Tony Blair's former communications chief Alastair Campbell will also form part of Channel 4's team alongside stars of Gogglebox. But it was the inclusion of Crufts presenter and BBC Sports star Balding to analyse incoming data that has left many people on X/ Twitter feeling baffled as one asked is she would be sent to the paddock to check out the form of the runners. Channel 4's early announcement shows a move away from its previous offering of an 'Alternative Election Night' featuring comedians after viewers slated 2019's coverage.

Emily Maitlis, 53, will present Channel 4's election special alongside Channel 4 News presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The former newsreader joins a eclectic line-up of presenters including BBC Sport presenter Clare Balding and political analyst Rory Stewart. Maitlis was recently portrayed on screen in the Netflix movie Scoop, which details the events around her Newsnight interview with the Duke of York in which she grilled him about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein .

Elizabeth Day says she has made peace with the fact that she will never be a mother at 45, but she does not worry about having a baby 'every day.' Magpie author and host Lisa Hartwick lives in Vauxhall, south London, with her partner, financial tech CEO Justin Basini (pictured together, right). Elizabeth told The Times she had decided not to try again after learning she had failed to conceive with a donor egg.

In a lawsuit alleging that judges have been advised to delay sentencing violent offenders like rapists because there is nowhere to place them, justice Secretary Alex Chalk is set to implement a series of amendments to sentencing today. Chalk's proposal would see the number of rapid deployment cells, which are prefab Portakabin-style blocks that provide acomodation for prisoners. However, documents obtained by The Times show that this accomodation, in addition to 1,000 of these so-called pop-up cells that are already installed in 18 prisons in England and Wales, would still leave a 2,000 space deficit by 2025.

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is set to announce a line of reform-to-sentencing hearings on Monday, according to reports that judges have been advised to delay sentencing violent criminals like rapists because there are no places to put them. According to Mr Chalk, reforms would see rapists serve their entire term rather than allowing them halfway through to serve the remainder of their time on remand. But he said the government needed to investigate how less serious offenders'repay their debt to society,' citing the example of Texas, which is 'not known for its loosened approach to criminal law.'

On Monday, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk (left) is set to unveil a series of steps that could include a bill to reduce the number of criminals sent to prison in England and Wales for less than six months or even less than 12 months. Judges and magistrates would continue to accept a 'presumption' that criminals facing shorter prison terms should instead receive 'robust community orders' to rehabilitate them.

NADINE DORRIES: For days now, the world has been discussing Russell Brand - not Russell Brand - and Russell Brand alone. The charges, as well as the assertions and counter-claims, the emotional revelations, and the rambling defenses. Laura, one individual who has been curiously absent in so much of this flurry of news: his wife Laura. Laura is the author of a parenting book, a home-maker who regularly serves his favourite meals. She seems to have a holding on him: the saint who allegedly exorcised the 'demon' inside him.

QUENTIN LETTS: Stewart was almost the last person to stand up to Theresa May's premiership and then attempted to become Prime Minister before he lost his career due to Brexit.

A jogger said he saw suspect Daniel Khalife twice the day before being arrested after fleeing Wandsworth jail but couldn't reach police to report the sighting. Frank Noon says he saw someone with the name of the alleged terrorist asleep on a bench in West London on Friday morning and saw him again in a shed near the entrance to an old cemetery. He claims he tried to alert it to police via 101, but he was unable to locate someone, but he says he'gave up' when he couldn't get hold of someone. Mr Noon told the Mirror that he told a neighbor about the sighting and later talked to a 999 call handler. Khalife is accused of fleeing jail by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery vehicle using a coating that may have been removed from bed sheets, according to a court today.

After breaking out of HMP Wandsworth last Wednesday, the 21-year-old former soldier will appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court today. Khalife was arrested on Saturday after a 75-hour manhunt ended after he escaped by clinging to the bottom of a food delivery vehicle. After being pulled off a bike by a plainclothes counter-terrorism officer, the 21-year-old veteran soldier was arrested on a canal towpath in west London at 10.41 a.m. on Saturday. In January, a British-born Khalife, who has Iranian and Lebanese roots, was charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act and for a suspected bomb hoax at his barracks. He was charged with fleeing HMP Wandsworth last Wednesday in violation of common legislation over the weekend.

On Saturday (left), terror suspect Daniel Khalife was arrested by plain-clothes counter-terrorism police officers after escaping by clinging to the bottom of a food distribution truck. Scotland Yard refocusing its efforts on piecing together Khalife's four days on the run, including finding those who might have aided him in escaping or evade capture while still on the loose, although still on the loose. After being arrested wearing new clothes, carrying a Waitrose cooler bag packed with food, and riding a mountain bike, Khalife's suspicions that he was dependent on a network of help were fuelled.

An ex-Cabinet minister has admitted that MPs attempted to kill themselves and had "total breakdowns" as a result of the job's "most unsustainable" pressures. Rory Stewart, who served in both Theresa May and David Cameron's administrations, said it was a'miracle' that some of his former colleagues in Parliament did not die by suicide. Former Tory MP Tony Davis, who represented Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, outlined how politicians had to 'pretend' they had 'the answers to everything.' However, the 50-year-old, a former Conservative leadership candidate, told MPs that they have no idea what's going on.' Mr Stewart acted'creepily' in the hunt for a promotion by Mr Cameron during a television interview ahead of his book's publication, Politics On The Edge. I don't want to talk about the details because it's so personal to people,' he told GB News, but, yes, coworkers tried to murder themselves. These are people I knew.' And in very serious terms, they're about to die for themselves. It's a miracle that they aren't dead. 'There were other coworkers who had complete breakdowns in the most humiliating, personal, embarrassing way in public.'

In north-west Syria, there is an extraordinary occurrence where he discovers that some of our richest citizens are funding municipal councils. 'Are not these enclaves controlled by jihadi factions?' "I think, Minister," Stewart says as a result of a civil servant's response in her early 20s, "I believe there are several groups in those fields." "So we are not funding jihadis?" "No, Minister."

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE : The disappearance of British Museum artefacts has prompted the Royal Collection Trust, the world's biggest private collection of artworks, to conduct a discreet inventory. Although there is no evidence that anything is amiss, a source tells me that tracking more than one million items can be difficult. The King has a penchant for traveling with his favorite art. One courtier was taken aback to face Queen Victoria's drawings and a Flemish oil painting from the Collection in a Royal lavatory.

SARAH SANDS: We tried to get it free but it left only the smallest tracemor. It didn't seem that it was doing well. Because it was prickly, I told my grandson not to touch it. We'll all remember Horace the hedgehog. Kim, my husband, is the son of a Yorkshire vet and is notably uncaring about animals. When confronted with the hedgehog, something melted inside him. What was it? This creature from somewhere else is in danger, and it could be something of Tolkien. Something sturdy and tasty, but in peril. Our little hedgehog made no noise at all. While I brought out some milk and bread, Kim lifted it in cupped hands and placed it in a cardboard box. In that sentence, there are three common mistakes, but we have a lot to learn.

Rory Stewart, the former Cabinet minister, said he is 'actively' considering a political revival, raising the chances of it happening at '50-50.' Mr Stewart fought for a vibrant Conservative leadership challenge in 2019, making no mention of his Remainer views and ultimately losing to Boris Johnson. He started as a Conservative but later announced an independent bid for London mayor, but was forced to withdraw when Covid came and the vote was delayed. Since presenting the popular Rest is Politics podcast with Labour former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, he has raised his profile.

AMANDA PLATELL: Judging by her reaction to it, The interview with The Cut seems to have marked a moment when much of the world has shifted against Meghan (pictured). In the United States, she has been dubbed the "Petulant Princess," while French media have accused her of continuing to'monetize the Royal Family's image.' In the week Harry commemorated his mother's death, a German newspaper called her "shamelessly" copying Princess Diana.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: A large removal van arrived at Balmoral prior to the Queen's arrival, including an electric buggy from Windsor and a special orthopaedic bed to support HM's sleep. It's likely that it's the first time she has taken her bed with her, something son Charles also uses when staying with friends. If Camilla insisted on a bespoke waterbed, might she and the heir drift apart?

The Prime Minister's sister has confessed that she used to iron his shirts for 50p a go. When Rachel Johnson (right), she and her brother Boris' laundry were owed to her mother while he was home from Eton (right). The 56-year-old said, 'I remember my mother used to pay me to iron my brothers' shirts, 50p a shirt, and she appeared on her Difficult Women podcast.' And I would say "why don't you just pay them to iron their own shirts?"

Boris Johnson in his final week as Prime Minister, refused to rule out a political comeback. Mr Johnson refused to answer questions about what he'd do when he leaves Number 10 in a week's time on a visit to north Dorset. According to reports, the outgoing Prime Minister is harbouring a hope for a swift return to the political frontline. Including allegations that he might plan to make a big intervention as soon as the Conservative Party conference in October, there have also been rumors that he might plan to make a major intervention. However, when speaking to reporters at a site where gigabit-capable broadband is being introduced as part of a £5 billion government initiative, Mr Johnson swerved a chance to lay out his future plans. The prime minister maintained that voters were "more interested in their gigabit broadband than they are in the decision of this or that politician."