For only the eighth time in the past quarter of a century, England finds itself without a single representative in the last four of the Champions League. That feels, in the immediate aftermath of this soul-sapping defeat for Manchester City, like an unvarnished travesty.
On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson speak to Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge about the events that unfolded at the National Conservative Conference in Brussels.
Government gives itself free hand to pick election commissioners, sparking concerns about fairness of impending election process, Maroosha Muzaffar reports