"We need to have more courage," a Labour MP, newly elected last year, confided to me in the corridors of Westminster.

"Lots of people are talking about a battle of ideas. But that can wait. There is nothing more important than ditching Jeremy Corbyn."
An ex-minister close to the former leader Gordon Brown was, in private, even more robust: "Labour is facing an existential threat.
"If Jeremy Corbyn leads us in to the 2020 election, it's all over for the party. We are screwed."
While some in the parliamentary party rail against their leader, others are more resigned to his continuation in office - and the consequences. A former minister close to another former leader - Tony Blair - declared: "I find a new reason to despair every day."
And some of their colleagues who attended a meeting of Labour's Parliamentary party on Monday night were incensed by reports of how the proceedings were briefed by Mr Corbyn's spokesman.
He had characterised the meeting as marking the night the Labour mainstream sided with Jeremy Corbyn, who had face down his internal opponents.
The leader had called for unity and told his MPs to stop "sniping" - and they in turn had tempered their criticism. There had been a "sea change in attitudes" said the spokesman.
Some of those present did not recognise this account and the "sea change" appears, in fact, to be a hardening of the attitudes of those who want Jeremy Corbyn ousted.
There has been a lot of shadow boxing between a Parliamentary Labour Party which overwhelmingly opposed Mr Corbyn's election as leader - and members and supporters who delivered it.
But now, at the very least, a minority of MPs seem more determined than ever to mount a challenge sooner rather than later.
The May elections in Scotland, Wales, London and English local authorities are set to be spun by Mr Corbyn's allies and critics alike.
At Monday's meeting the party leader refused to be drawn on how many council seats he expects to win (or lose).
That is meant to make it trickier for opponents to declare he has failed.
But party insiders believe 200 or more seats in England are vulnerable.
So the Corbynistas are responding in two ways.
The successor to the Corbyn leadership campaign - Momentum - will try to put well motivated activists into areas which are vulnerable.
With poor turnouts in many council contests, it's possible a good "ground war" could reap benefits and stem losses - or even lead to some unexpected gains. Momentum bussed supporters into the Oldham West by-election late last year.
The assumption was that Labour might just scrape home on a low turnout - in fact a relatively respectable 40% went to the polls, and Labour's vote share increased.
But even if council results turn out to be disappointing, the leadership are confident Sadiq Khan will defeat Zac Goldsmith in the London mayoral contest and that Labour won't slip to third place in Scotland.
And this will be presented as proof that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is far from toxic and he needs more time to mobilise further support for the party.
In this narrative, setbacks elsewhere will have been due to the Parliamentary "snipers" shooting their own leader in the foot.
On the other side, senior MPs are circulating a paper pointing out how well Labour should be doing at this stage in the electoral cycle.
It concludes that opposition parties have always gained seats over the past 40 years except in 1982 - when Labour was in opposition but suffered the SDP split -  and in 1985 when the Militant Tendency and the miners' strike were in the headlines.
So some former ministers are likely to set targets of their own for Jeremy Corbyn - anything less than 300 gains will be denounced as unsatisfactory.
So let's assume - and this is not a prediction, just a scenario - that some Labour MPs will say Jeremy Corbyn has failed to clear the hurdles they have constructed for him. The rules are clear that it would take 20% of the combined total of Labour MPs and MEPs - 51 politicians - to trigger a leadership challenge.
But It's less clear if Jeremy Corbyn's name would then automatically be on the ballot.
The rule book here is open to interpretation.
One Corbyn opponent points out that when Tony Benn challenged the incumbent Neil Kinnock in the 1980s, the latter was required to gather nominations, too - and he says this would set a precedent.
And Labour officials stress the importance of "custom and practice" when determining these issues.
That would mean Mr Corbyn would then have to gather 35 nominations from his fellow MPs to stand, if challenged.
He only gained that number last year because some of his Parliamentary colleagues wanted to "broaden the debate" and didn't expect him to win.
So it's possible he could be kept off the ballot. And that would be the best opportunity opponents would have to defeat him.
A YouGov poll of party members in February suggested if Jeremy Corbyn were on the ballot paper, he would win a leadership contest comfortably, with "soft-left" shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn second, and ex-paratrooper Dan Jarvis - who gave a keynote speech on Thursday in which he denounced inequality and distanced himself, to a degree, from New Labour - narrowly behind in third place.
However, members were also shown a ballot paper without Jeremy Corbyn's name on it - and Hilary Benn, Tom Watson, Angela Eagle and Dan Jarvis were pretty much bunched together in that order.
So, unsurprisingly, Mr Corbyn's supporters in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy are trying to make the rules less ambiguous - by getting the party's sovereign body, the annual conference, to agree that if challenged, the leader's name would automatically be on any ballot - and in future only 5%, not 15%, of MPs would need to nominate a candidate if Mr Corbyn were to stand down.
This would mean about a dozen MPs would have to give their backing. As Jeremy Corbyn had 14 genuine supporters in the Parliamentary party at last year's leadership contest, this lower threshold would mean a left-wing successor could not be blocked by their sceptical Parliamentary colleagues.
They would then put themselves before a membership whose centre of gravity is to the left of most Labour MPs for approval.
So that is why some of those who were close to either Blair or Brown believe it is worth trying to challenge the current leader before his position becomes more entrenched.
But despite all the talk about rules, privately the plotters believe that even if Mr Corbyn were required to seek nominations from fellow MPs to re-stand, due to a mixture of patronage and the fear of being deselected by new left-wing party members, it's perfectly possible that 35 MPs would support him this time in any case.
If so, any challenger would have their work cut out, according to that You Gov membership survey.
Two thirds of respondents said they wanted Jeremy Corbyn to lead Labour into the next general election. But crucially, asked if he should do so even if the May elections go badly for Labour, 53% of members would still want him to remain as leader until at least 2020.
So now there isn't just a division between most Labour MPs and their leader.
Amongst the non-Corbynistas, there are those that say it would be pointless to launch a leadership contest he is likely to win - and those who say they have to be seen to be making the argument that he is leading the party to disaster.
The mood between the two camps isn't quite as convivial as it once was.
A member of the latter group privately denounced the former as "collaborators".  Members of this albeit fluid grouping - "there isn't a Committee to Get Rid of Jeremy Corbyn", said one MP - are coming to the conclusion that a leadership challenge is worth a roll of the dice.
But would Mr Corbyn simply fall on his sword if May's elections bring poor results?
Some MPs say he isn't enjoying the job but a well-connected former Labour strategist is convinced he wouldn't step aside.
He says sections of the press - and Parliament - are "using the wrong metric to look at his success and failure".
He believes "those around him want to take on and change the party before thinking about trying to change the country - so winning elections isn't their priority".
So if he won't go of his own volition, July seems to be the likely time for a challenge.
As Dan Jarvis pointed out in his remarks to Westminster journalists on Thursday, Labour members and supporters would not forgive MPs who are not entirely focussed on May's elections and June's referendum.
But whenever a contest comes, Mr Corbyn's backers are confident he would win because the mood amongst the membership is against a return to "top down" politics and Parliamentary coups.
They don't buy the idea that, whatever the rules, it would be possible to exclude a leader who gained an overwhelming mandate just six months ago.
A leading light in Momentum put it like this: "They can challenge Jeremy if they want. Just so long as they know it would be a kamikaze operation."


A new bus stop is being built in the middle of a cycle lane in Glasgow, Scotland.

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23 July 2015 Last updated at 07:36 BST
A cyclist filmed his journey in an area of the city, which was improved for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow City Council has said the cycle path will eventually be moved behind the bus shelter.
Footage courtesy of Ross McKay


The death of a woman whose body was found in her home in County Down is being treated as suspicious.

Mother-of-four Joanne Thompson, 33, was found at her Old Mill Court home in Newtownards on Wednesday by a relative.
Police want to hear from witnesses to any disturbance at a bonfire at Dakota Avenue in the town on Monday.
They also want to hear from anyone who noticed activity around Ms Thompson's home on Tuesday night and the early hours of Wednesday morning.


A Powys environmental group has been given £50,000 to develop its plans for turning land into community use.

Cwm Harry Land Trust could take over eight sites of more than 120 acres (49 hectares) in Newtown owned by the county council and Welsh Government.
It hopes to create cycle tracks, set up an allotment, plant meadows and open a cafe, among other ideas.
The Big Lottery Fund has set aside £9m to support the transfer of assets to community ownership.


Wales manager Chris Coleman is optimistic injured forward Gareth Bale will be fit for the World Cup qualifier in the Republic of Ireland in March.

Real Madrid's Bale, 27, will have ankle surgery on Tuesday and is expected to be out for four months.
However, Coleman said: "I'm hoping it's going to be more like three months.
"He's an absolute machine and physically he's an absolute specimen. We'll know a little bit more probably next week or the week after."
Bale hobbled out of Tuesday's 2-1 Champions League win at Sporting Lisbon with what has been diagnosed as a "traumatic dislocation of the peroneal tendons" in his right ankle.
Wales are third in Group D, four points adrift of leaders the Republic, who they face at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on 24 March.
Bale has scored four times in Wales' opening four qualifiers and is now second to Ian Rush on his country's all-time goalscoring list with 26 goals.


More than 70 doctors and academics are calling for a ban on tackling in rugby matches played in UK and Irish schools.

In an open letter to ministers, they say injuries from this "high-impact collision sport" can have lifelong consequences for children.
They argue two thirds of injuries in youth rugby and most concussions are down to tackles and urge schools to move to touch and non-contact rugby.
Supporters say rugby builds character and other forms are less challenging.
The concerns have been raised as a seven-year programme headed by the Rugby Football Union is on target to introduce rugby to a million children in state schools across England.
The RFU's programme, which began in 2012 and is running until 2019, has so far reached 400 schools, with 350 to follow.
But, in their letter to ministers, chief medical officers and children's commissioners in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, doctors say the risks for players aged under 18 are high.
They say many secondary schools in the UK deliver contact rugby as a compulsory part of the physical education curriculum from the age of 11.
"The majority of all injuries occur during contact or collision, such as the tackle and the scrum," the letter says.
"These injuries, which include fractures, ligamentous tears, dislocated shoulders, spinal injuries and head injuries can have short-term, lifelong and life-ending consequences for children."
The doctors say concussion is a common injury, and they highlight a link between "repeat concussions and cognitive impairment and an association with depression, memory loss and diminished verbal abilities".
One of the signatories of the open letter is Prof Allyson Pollock, from Queen Mary University of London, who has long campaigned about the dangers of rugby.
She said evidence collected over 12 years showed rugby players up to the age of 18 or 19 had a 28% chance of getting injured over a season of 15 matches.
"If you're thinking of a million children playing every year with this risk of injury you're looking at 300,000 extra injuries a year, including up to 100,000 concussions," she said.
She added that 90% of injuries resulted in more than seven days lost from school.
There are various forms of touch or tag rugby, in which tackles are replaced by touching a player or removing a tag from their clothing. Aspects of rugby such as scrums and rucks are also excluded from these forms of the game.
Jonny Cross, a PE teacher at Congleton High School in Cheshire - where rugby is compulsory from the age of 11 - says the sport provides a challenge.
Mr Cross says children wear gum-shields and are taught how to maintain the proper posture in scrums to avoid injury, a technique known as "tower of power".
"Contact rugby helps build character. They are putting their body on the line in a match. The risk factor is part of it," he says.
"They enjoy the contact element. There is a 'boy factor' - it's partly about developing masculinity. They would be more likely to be bored by touch rugby.
"I would say that some students need it.  It provides a challenge, where challenge is being taken out of everyday life."
Parents and pupils on tackling in rugby
The RFU and the Welsh Rugby Union both said they took player safety "extremely seriously" but that rugby was a "fantastic sport for children" which offered many benefits for society.
The Scottish Rugby Union said it was "committed to player welfare at every level of the game" but pointed out that every sport carried "an element of risk".
South African schools allow tackling, as do schools in Australia - although there has been a recent push to make children wear protective headgear, but this is not compulsory.
In New Zealand, tackling is permitted, but in some schools it is banned in lunchtime games that are not being supervised.
Former England rugby player Matt Perry said: "I took a risk when I started rugby at seven and I'm afraid at school level if that tackle is taken out we've lost one of the great games and one of the great cultural games."
Former England international Brian Moore dismissed the evidence in the letter as "flawed" and "partial".
Obesity would kill more children than rugby, he said.
"If you want to ban things, you've got to do it on the right basis."
The Association for Physical Education said contact versions of the game should be introduced and managed only by "suitably experienced staff" following recognised guidelines.
"Parents should be aware of what sports are taught in the schools they choose to send their children to - if rugby is taught, then parents send their children to the school in the knowledge that they are likely to be asked to play rugby at some level," it added.
A spokesman for the Department for Education in England said: "Team sports, such as rugby, play an important role in developing character.
"We expect schools to be aware of the risks associated with sporting activities and to provide a safe environment for pupils."


British Steel is celebrating its first anniversary by giving its 4,800-strong workforce a 5% stake in the company.

The Scunthorpe-based company said it would be dividing a million shares between all of its employees, except contractors and agency workers, because it had delivered consistent profits.
Further shares will be given out on an annual basis in June.
Staff also returned to full pay after sacrificing 3% of their salary for Tata's sale of the venture to Greybull.
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The business has reported a £47m profit a year after its launch and said it had "significantly improved" profitability despite a 44% increase in the cost of raw materials.
About 500 workers have been recruited during its "remarkable" transformation, it said.
Managing director Paul Martin said: "Every one of our employees has contributed to the turnaround of this business - they are the foundation of our recent achievements and, just as importantly, they are critical to our future.
"It is therefore important that we not only reward them for their efforts during the last 12 months but, as we move forward and grow the business further, they continue to share in any ongoing success."
Those on fixed-term contracts and apprentices would be exempt from receiving any shares and staff who leave the company are required to relinquish their stake.
It was "totally separate from the bonus scheme and does not replace it", the company said.
Paul McBean, multi-union chairman at British Steel's Scunthorpe headquarters, said he "warmly" welcomed the move.
"They have helped transform the company and it is fantastic to see they will share in the success we are starting to see," he said.
British Steel said it had invested £39m in the business in the last financial year.
Investment firm Greybull bought the business - which had suffered losses of £79m in the previous financial year - a year ago and renamed it British Steel.
It has supplied 57km (35 miles) of rail track for the £16bn Crossrail project in London.
Tata announced the sale of its plant in April 2016, with the move safeguarding nearly 5,000 jobs.
For the deal to be sealed, workers accepted a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
British Steel also has sites in Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Teesside and France.


Two buildings which will form part of Cardiff University's £300m research centre have been given the go-ahead by Cardiff council.

The university's innovation campus will be built on land at Maindy Park.
Buildings will house researchers, businesses and students to develop research into practical uses, with work set to start in early 2017.
Vice-chancellor Prof Colin Riordan said: "A new campus helps us create opportunities for all."
The campus will house researchers in a range of fields, including semiconductors and chemical sciences, and a base for start-ups working with the Medicentre at Heath Park.
Each building is 12,000 sq m (129,166 sq ft) and the campus will be linked to the existing business school via a bridge.
Prof Riordan added: "We are hiring internationally-renowned academics who can build world-class teams of post-doctoral researchers.
"We are equipping students with the skills they'll need to set up future ventures."


A judge in the US state of Oklahoma has ruled its execution law improperly prevents death row inmates learning the source of the drugs used to kill them.

The finding potentially delays at least two executions and could influence court challenges in other states.
It comes as US states are having increasing trouble obtaining drugs used in executions, amid an embargo from European pharmaceutical firms.
Critics say the states risk botching executions with impure drugs.
In January, an execution in Ohio took 25 minutes to complete, as the inmate reportedly gasped and made choking noises in the moments before he was pronounced dead.
The state used two untried drugs to kill convicted murderer and rapist Dennis McGuire after the maker of the previous execution drug refused to allow its use.
The challenge to Oklahoma's law was brought by convicted murderers Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, who sought to learn the source of the drugs to be used in their executions scheduled for 22 April and 29 April, respectively.
But Oklahoma state law blocks officials from revealing - even during court proceedings - the identities of the companies supplying the drugs used to sedate the inmates, paralyse their respiratory systems, and stop their hearts.
On Wednesday, Oklahoma County district court Judge Patricia Parrish ruled the secrecy provision unconstitutional, though her ruling did not affect Lockett's and Warner's death sentences.
"I think that the secrecy statute is a violation of due process because access to the courts has been denied," Ms Parrish ruled, according to local media reports.
It's getting harder for US states to source the drugs used in lethal injections because many European companies don't want their drugs used for this purpose, the BBC's Beth McLeod in Washington reports.
State governments have turned to other suppliers, but lawyers for death row inmates argue that these less regulated drugs can lack purity and cause unnecessary suffering, our correspondent reports.
Capital punishment experts say the Oklahoma decision could affect the several other states where corrections officials are barred by law from disclosing the source of the drugs.
Thirty-two US states have death penalty laws and 18, plus the District of Columbia, have abolished capital punishment.
But in recent years only a handful of states have actually carried out executions - nine in 2013 and seven in 2012.
The annual number of executions has fallen dramatically, from a high of 98 in 1999 to 39 last year.


An Egyptian judge has quashed a government decision to hand control of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced that Tiran and Sanafir would be transferred in April, during a visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
More than 150 people were jailed in connection with protests over the deal, though many were later acquitted or had their sentences reduced on appeal.
The Egyptian government has said it will challenge Tuesday's ruling.
Tiran and Sanafir are uninhabited and located at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic part of the Red Sea bordered by Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Egyptian troops have been stationed there since 1950 at Riyadh's request.
Mr Sisi's decision in April to cede control of them to Saudi Arabia sparked widespread criticism.
The president was accused of violating the constitution and "selling" the islands in return for a multi-billion dollar aid package unveiled by King Salman during his visit.
But Mr Sisi insisted that Tiran and Sanafir had always belonged to Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday, Egypt's State Council, an administrative court, issued a verdict annulling April's maritime borders agreement between Cairo and Riyadh.
The maritime border agreement signed earlier this year between Egypt and Saudi Arabia took many Egyptians by surprise.
Since then, protesters have taken to the streets calling the arrangement unconstitutional, and accusing the government of giving away Egyptian territories in return for aid packages and investments worth billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a strong backer of President Sisi.
Some of these protesters were arrested and charged with disrupting public order. A few are still behind bars.
The lawsuit was filed by a number of prominent human rights lawyers, headed by a former presidential candidate, Khaled Ali.
When the verdict was issued, many cheered inside the courtroom, chanting "the islands are Egyptian". But the legal battle has not come to an end yet, because the decision can be appealed.
The verdict stated that the two islands would "remain under Egyptian sovereignty".
If it is approved by the country's High Administrative Court it will become legally binding.
However, the State Lawsuits Authority, which represents the Egyptian state in lawsuits, said on Tuesday evening that it would challenge the ruling, state television reported.
Mr Sisi has cracked down on all dissent since leading the military's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 are believed to have been jailed, most of them supporters of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.


A police officer has been disciplined following an investigation into police actions on the night west Belfast man Harry Holland was murdered.

The 65-year-old was stabbed in the head near his Norfolk Drive home on 11 September 2007 just before midnight.
A Police Ombudsman investigation has found police "failed to adequately respond" to an earlier 999 call about teenagers armed with a knife.
One of those present was identified as Stephen McKee who murdered Mr Holland.
"Police policy is that any call which reports violence has been threatened, likely to happen or is happening should get an emergency response," Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Dr Michael Maguire said.
"This did not happen. This was a significant failing and fell short of the commitment police had given to the community a matter of hours earlier."
In August 2009, McKee, who was then an 18-year-old from Ballymurphy Road, was told he must serve at least 12 years of a life sentence. However last year, Mr Holland's family said they felt let down by the judicial system after learning he was eligible for a pre-release scheme.
The Police Ombudsman's Office said in a letter to the Holland family that records support that at 22:05 on 11 September 2007, a member of the public rang 999 to report an incident in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast. It said later this incident was linked by the PSNI major investigation team to the investigation into the murder of Mr Holland.
At 22:05 on 11 September, 2007, a caller reported they had been "verbally abused by a group of teenagers" and one of them had "chased the caller with a knife".
One of the people present was identified by the caller as Stephen McKee.
The caller provided the name of the street where the incident happened, but did not "provide the address of the house they were calling from for fear of repercussions". They confirmed they would make a call to police and referenced that Community Watch had given that advice.
The call was initially categorised as a priority, but was later "re-categorised to a normal response".  The Police Ombudsman said descriptions of the teenagers were circulated.
The police officer who acted as a controller for the report and was responsible for assigning resources was interviewed under a misconduct caution by Police Ombudsman investigators.
He said he had acted on the instruction of the call handling unit and named a police sergeant, who has since retired, as the officer he believed he had spoken with.
The controller "referred to a lack of available resources in the area and that it was his understanding the call handling unit may have spoken further with the 999 caller".
When the Police Ombudsman made enquiries with the sergeant, he could not "recall this specific 999 call, nor if any conversation took place with the police controller who named him".
The police officer who recategorised the call was disciplined, but "no further action could be taken in respect of the named sergeant as he is now retired".
The Police Ombudsman's report found that evidence supports that the police "failed to adequately respond to the 999 call made to police at 10:05pm on 11 September 2007".
It said "this aspect" of the Holland family's complaint "is substantiated and a police officer has been subject to disciplinary action for the failure to prioritise the call according to policy".
It said "this failure" was "particularly concerning" given advice provided by police during a meeting earlier on 11 September 2007 with community representatives which was "for members of the public to report directly to police any further information so that police could then take the appropriate action".


Historically, Uruguay has been a liberal country with a solid track record of reform.

It declared itself a secular state in 1917.
In 1913, it became the first in the region to grant divorces to women who requested them. In 1927, it introduced the vote for women.
"It is probably right to say that Uruguay has been traditionally a more liberal country than the rest of the region," Uruguayan pollster and political analyst Ignacio Zuasnabar says.
But even so, many Uruguayans have been taken by surprise by a series of liberal reforms passed in the last two years.
Over this time, Congress approved same sex-marriages, abortions, and now, late on Wednesday, the lower house passed a draft bill legalising cannabis.
If the Senate approves it, as is expected, Uruguay would become the first country in the world to regulate cannabis production, guarantee its quality, set its price and tax the revenues.
It would also allow people to grow up to six plants of cannabis in their homes.
The government says the aim is to stop people going to buy cannabis from drug traffickers and to put an end to a recent wave of violent crime associated with illegal drugs.
In a BBC interview last year, President Jose Mujica said: "We are not so much worried about the drugs. What really worries us is drug trafficking."
Uruguay is also among the few countries in Latin America to allow abortions beyond cases of rape, incest or threats to a woman's health.
And while President Mujica says he does not like abortions, he is convinced the law "will enable us to save more lives" by preventing women from having back-street abortions which are blamed for hundreds of deaths each year.
The Uruguayan leader has acknowledged that despite the country's liberal history, it is still difficult for many to come to terms with these reforms.
"There is still a lot of prejudice, especially with regards to drugs," he says.
According to recent opinion polls, Uruguayans have shown to be more open to decriminalising abortion and legalising same-sex marriage than they are towards this new cannabis bill.
At least two-thirds of the population are against the legalisation of marijuana, the latest poll suggests.
Opposition politicians are demanding a referendum, arguing the decision to legalise marijuana should be left to the people of Uruguay.
With a clear majority in the Senate, pro-government MPs are confident the bill will sail through the upper house and become law by the end of this year.
But drug legalisation still triggers resistance from many Uruguayans, sometimes in contradiction with their own liberal values.
Anthropologist Daniel Vidart, author of a study on Uruguayan identity, told the BBC that the country values its liberal traditions, which date back to a raft of social reforms introduced by President Jose Batlle y Ordonez a century ago.
But according to Mr Vidart, there are also "staunch conservative sectors" which constantly challenge liberal reforms.
The difficulty is being able to separate rhetoric from the will of the people.
"But we still need to think how much demagoguery is there, and how much it reflects what the people want," he says.


Chelsea FC have become the first club from the Premier League to sign up to the living wage.

The commitment means that all staff employed by the football club will receive at least £9.15 an hour if working in London and £7.85 an hour outside the capital.
League Two club Luton Town has also recently signed up to the code.
The voluntary wage, set by the Living Wage Foundation, is based on the amount needed to cover basic living.
The higher living wage levels compare to the minimum wage of £6.50 an hour.
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said: "We believe the move to the living wage underlines our commitment to ensuring that all our employees receive a fair rate of pay for their hard work and dedication. Quite simply, it is the right thing to do."
Chelsea said it would ensure the living wage was also paid for staff working for external contractors, at its Cobham training ground and other club operations by July 2017.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said Chelsea were "setting the right example" with the move.
He added: "They realise their team is more than just the 11 men out on the pitch, and that by putting more pounds in the pockets of their staff they are signing up to a win-win scenario that rewards a hard day's work with a fair day's pay for everyone."
In October, Scottish Championship side Hearts became the first club in the UK to pay their staff the living wage, while non-league outfit FC United of Manchester have also committed to the scheme.
Luton chief executive Gary Sweet said the club were fulfilling a "responsibility" to their staff.
"Not only do we feel that we have a responsibility to our staff, to make sure that their level of pay affords them the ability to have a decent work-life balance, but we also have a desire to attract more talented people when recruiting," he said.
According to a review of football finances this year by Deloitte, Premier League clubs paid a total of £1.78bn in wages during the 2012-13 season.


A failed slurry lagoon has caused "major pollution" in Monmouthshire.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the incident, near Abergavenny, is likely to have a "serious effect" on some rivers in south east Wales.
A "significant discharge" from the lagoon, which contained up to 450,000 litres (99,000 gallons) of slurry, went into a tributary of the River Honddu.
NRW officers are also assessing the impact on the River Monnow and River Wye.
Caroline Drayton, a team leader for NRW, said on Tuesday: "Protecting nature in Wales is our biggest priority and we have been carrying out pollution-prevention works to minimise the impact of this incident since this morning."
NRW is working closely with the Environment Agency in England to monitor the situation.


The League Two fixtures for 2017-18 have been released.

Forest Green's first match as an English Football League club is at home to Barnet, while fellow promoted side Lincoln begin the campaign at Wycombe.
Follow the links below for your team's fixtures in full.
Accrington Stanley
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Cambridge United
Carlisle United
Cheltenham Town
Chesterfield
Colchester United
Coventry City
Crawley Town
Crewe Alexandra
Exeter City
Forest Green Rovers
Grimsby Town
Lincoln City
Luton Town
Mansfield Town
Morecambe
Newport County
Notts County
Port Vale
Stevenage
Swindon Town
Wycombe Wanderers
Yeovil Town


Towns and villages across Cumbria have been flooded again - some for the third time in less than a month - after more torrential rain and high winds.

23 December 2015 Last updated at 08:47 GMT
Worst affected have been the Keswick, Kendal, Appleby and Glenridding areas, where river levels have risen.
Sarah McKay  who lives in Appleby says local people were exhausted by the flooding.


A man has died in a house fire in Derbyshire, police have said.

Firefighters were called to reports of a kitchen fire at a property in Woodville, near Swadlincote, at about 05:00 BST.
Derbyshire Police has not released details about the dead man but said it has informed his family.
Officers at the scene are working with the fire service to determine the cause of the blaze in Station Road, police said.
Neighbours said they were awoken to flames pouring out of the upper windows of this house.


The editor of Whisper, an app for people to share secrets anonymously, has angrily denied reports that it has been tracking users and sharing data.

The Guardian newspaper claims Whisper has an in-house tool which can track the locations of all its users.
This includes some who have specifically opted out of sharing location details, the report claims.
Whisper editor Neetzan Zimmerman tweeted that the article was "riddled with outright lies and made-up quotes".
The Guardian also claimed the app was tracking "newsworthy" posters and was sharing data with the US Department of Defense in instances where secrets were uploaded from military bases.
"We are not sharing specific user data with any organisation," wrote Mr Zimmerman in response.
"We noticed how frequently suicide is mentioned among those living on US military bases or compounds and reached out to organisations to see how we could work together to address this important issue."
However, he added that "violent or child-endangering threats" were reported to law enforcement agents "to protect our users and the public".
"We comply with the legal process in all instances," he wrote.
"We respond to both subpoenas and preservation requests from law enforcement. Whisper is not a place for illegal activity."
Two journalists from the newspaper had visited Whisper's offices in the US to explore a working relationship, which the Guardian says it will no longer pursue due to concerns over user privacy.
The Guardian has been contacted by the BBC for comment.
News and community site Buzzfeed has also announced it is "taking a break" from its partnership with the platform following the report.
"We're taking a break from our partnership until Whisper clarifies to us and its users the policy on user location and privacy," it said in a statement.
Millions of "secrets" - a short sentence written over a picture - have been shared via the social media platform since its launch two years ago.
"You look at all of these services like Facebook and Instagram, and they're all about, 'Let me show you the best version of me,'" Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward told the BBC earlier this year.
"Whisper is about showing people the behind-the-scenes stuff that we're not always comfortable posting on Facebook."
In his response to the Guardian's report, Neetzan Zimmerman added that the firm did not store geographical data or any other information which might identify a user.
"There is nothing in our geolocation data that can be tied to an individual user and a user's anonymity is never compromised," he wrote.
"Even for users who opt into geolocation services, the location information that we do store is obscured to within 500m of their smartphone device's actual location.
"Whisper does not follow or track users. Whisper does not request or store any personally identifiable information from users, therefore there is never a breach of anonymity."


An "unidentified viscous liquid" discovered on a beach in Cornwall was seaweed, Cornwall Council has confirmed.

Cornwall Council had said the liquid might be "petroleum based" and issued a public warning.
It washed up in deposits between 2ft and 6ft (60cm and 180cm) along the high water mark from Marazion to Wherry Town.
The council said it would remove signs warning the public to stay away.
More on this story and others from Cornwall.
The Environment Agency tested the substance and found that it was decaying marine algae.
Part of Long Rock beach is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, part by the St Aubyn Estate and part by Cornwall Council.


A national database of school governors in England is going to be created, says the government.

Until now there has been no central register of who is serving as a school governor.
The announcement is a response to the Trojan Horse claims about schools in Birmingham being taken over by groups with a hardline Muslim agenda.
The Department for Education says it will deliver more "transparency" for parents and the wider community.
Among the problems identified by the Trojan Horse inquiries was that governors had been interfering in the running of schools and had undermined head teachers.
There were calls for more oversight of governors, but as the BBC revealed in February, the Department for Education did not have a register to check who was serving on governing bodies.
This raised questions about a lack of knowledge about who was in these positions of influence and whether there were networks of individuals who had become governors in multiple schools.
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, had said that many parents would have been surprised to discover that the Department for Education did not keep a record of people who were school governors.
A report last year said that there were about 350,000 governors, with a major role in overseeing Â£46bn of school spending.
The Local Government Association called for more oversight to identify governors with "ill intentions".
But in the government's response to the Trojan Horse report, which argued that MPs had downplayed the seriousness of the problems in Birmingham, there are now plans to gather information about governors.
"We will create a national database of school governors by toughening up requirements on schools to publish the identities of their governors," says the education department.
The details of governors published by schools should also include "details of where they serve on governing bodies of schools elsewhere".
This will help "enable more effective oversight," says the Department for Education's response.
But Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governors' Association, said that the proposed "national database" will initially rely on information being published on the individual school websites, including whether they govern at another school.
Ms Knights said there should have been more attention drawn to another change in the wake of the Trojan Horse reports, that "no-one should govern on more than two governing boards unless there are exceptional circumstances".
"But in many places this has not yet been implemented and has not been well communicated," she said.
"We are disappointed that the DfE did not take advantage of this report on Trojan Horse to highlight this guidance to schools which seeks to limit the undue influence of individuals."


Hundreds of thousands of people across Chile have taken part in protests against the country's controversial privatised pension plan.

The scheme was launched in 1981, during the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
Protesters say some 10 million people who joined have now been left with very low retirement incomes - less than minimum wage in many cases.
They are calling for President Michelle Bachelet to scrap the scheme.
The Chilean pension fund system has been praised by pro-market politicians and economists across the world.
But critics say it pays many contributors less than the minimum wage, far less than the 70% of final salary originally intended.
President Bachelet, who is left wing, announced a number of reforms earlier this month to try to boost the income of pensioners.
She proposed an increase in employer's contributions and a reduction in commissions paid to the fund managers.
But protesters want the Pension Fund Administrators (or AFP) scheme to be scrapped altogether.
Leaders of the No More AFP movement have called a nationwide strike on 4 November.


Derry City will play their opening home matches of the 2017 season at Maginn Park in Buncrana while Brandywell stadium is redeveloped.

The club will stage the rest of next season's games at Maginn Park if they fail to secure an alternative venue.
Derry said the "only difficulty" with the Donegal ground is its capacity, which is approximately 2,000.
The multi-million pound project at the Brandywell will include a new stand, changing rooms and new playing surface.
"For the greater number of matches, the club believes that the capacity will meet the demand but they realise that in some matches, capacity will be limited," Derry added on the club website.
"We are very pleased and grateful to the management of Maginn for the welcome and the flexibility they have shown to Derry City.
"The club is also exploring ways of providing public transport to and from Buncrana for supporters who don't drive or who prefer to go to matches with groups of friends."


Walsall manager Dean Smith says he was disappointed the Saddlers did not give their fans more to shout about in Sunday's Johnstone's Paint Trophy final defeat by Bristol City.

The Saddlers' first-ever appearance at Wembley ended in a 2-0 loss.
"I'm proud of all the supporters," he told BBC WM 95.6. "They got behind us in their droves. We just wanted to give them more to shout about.
"The build-up is superb, but Wembley is no place to be on the losing team."
The Saddlers boss added: "We were very down on the coach on the way home. We've just got to pick ourselves up now for the rest of the season."
Smith's main focus now is arresting a slide that has seen Walsall win just once in eight League One games.
Having been potential play-off contenders for most of the campaign, Walsall are now closer to the League One drop zone (four points) than they are to the play-off places (10 points).
And ahead of Saturday's trip to Chesterfield, Smith knows his side have to start performing a lot better than they did on Sunday, in a game played in front of more than 72,000 spectators.
"I feel bit frustrated with the performance, which did not merit the occasion," he said. "Usually I'm a 'glass half-full' sort of person. Last week, we were one of four clubs who have never played at Wembley. Now there's only three, so you have to look at it that way.
"But, on Sunday, we simply had too many players below par.
"It was a bit of a nothing game. Neither keeper had too many saves to make and we've conceded a poor goal. We were very wasteful in the final third and did not work their keeper enough. And, to do that against the top team in the league, you're going to struggle."
Walsall boss Dean Smith was talking to BBC WM's Adrian Goldberg.


A cocker spaniel puppy was left with severe wounds thought to have been caused by being fitted with a collar that was too small.

Guinness had a cut to his neck when he was found abandoned in Grays, Essex in October.
Insp Joe White, of the RSPCA, said: "I could not believe it - it was one of the worst wounds I have seen in my whole time as an RSPCA inspector."
The dog has now been rehomed with a new family after emergency treatment.
"It looked as though he had been left with a collar on that was far too small for him and it had cut into his neck," said Insp White.
"I have seen some awful things but this one really hit me.
"How anyone could neglect this poor puppy in this way and ignore such an awful wound that so obviously needed treatment is just beyond me."
His new owner, Charlie Rees-Brown, from Grays, said: "The minute he walked through the door I just knew that he wasn't going to be leaving the house.
"He is such a cheeky, happy boy you really wouldn't know he had been through something so awful."
Guinness' original owners were never traced.


Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says he wants to "see how his horses run" in the home straight of their title bid - and he is not the only one.

With six weeks of the Premier League season to go, we are about to find out who can produce a fast finish, and who will falter in the final furlong.
Can the Foxes stay clear, or will Tottenham catch them? Could Manchester City collapse completely, and what are the chances of a late West Ham charge into the top four?
BBC football pundits Danny Murphy, Chris Waddle, Jermaine Jenas, Chris Sutton, Mark Lawrenson, Pat Nevin and John Hartson have studied the form and fixtures and give their verdicts on who will win the title, and who will take the coveted Champions League spots.
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Murphy: "Trying to predict how the top six will finish is like trying to predict the weather at the moment.
"My heart wants my old team Tottenham to win the title but my head says Leicester are going to do it because of the way they are digging out results.
"Either way, it is going to be very close.
"Spurs have got some incredibly difficult fixtures but, if they go to Anfield on Saturday and beat Liverpool, then Leicester slip up at home to Southampton on Sunday - both of which are entirely possible - then you might get a different one and two from me by Monday.
"As things stand, though, I am going with the Foxes."
Waddle: "It is Tottenham for the title for me - their players are bang in form and they have got real momentum.
"Arsenal always have a blip, like the one they have had in the last couple of months, but they always finish the season well.
"I can see them winning all of their remaining games but they have left themselves too much of a gap to claw back, not so much on Leicester as on Spurs.
"Fourth will be very close too, but I have gone for Manchester City - Samir Nasri is fit again and Kevin de Bruyne is close to a return, and having those two back could be be the boost they badly need.
"If City do not make it into the Champions League spots, it is the equivalent of a relegation with the players they have got.
"But Manchester United will have done well if they finish fifth with their squad and the amount of injuries they have suffered.
"I am going for Southampton to finish sixth. I think West Ham have got their hearts set on winning the FA Cup in their final season at Upton Park and it will be a big distraction for them if they get past Manchester United in their quarter-final replay."
Jenas: "Tottenham are in a great position but to win the title they cannot afford to lose another game between now and the end of the season and, with their away fixtures, that is too big an ask.
"I have watched Leicester a lot recently and the times where I thought they would fall away, they haven't.
"Far from feeling the pressure, they have actually got stronger and stronger and shown they can win when games are really tight.
"I don't see them dropping enough points now to let Spurs in, and although they will definitely be champions if they win six of their last seven games, I don't think they will need to do that to finish top.
"Jamie Vardy's goals had dried up a bit - he has gone five league games without finding the net - but scoring for England against Germany and the Netherlands last week should reinvigorate him.
"Even if it doesn't, the Foxes have got the quality of Riyad Mahrez, who can make the difference when it matters, and their defence looks solid too.
"At the start of the season they were leaking a few, and just scoring more goals, whereas now the attack has not really been at it but their back four has carried them and they have won their last three games 1-0."
Sutton: "I don't see Leicester being shifted from top spot and the bigger clubs should learn some lessons from the way they have shut up shop recently.
"Robert Huth and Wes Morgan are old-fashioned centre-halves but they have got the job done as part of a back four who stay in place and defend as a unit - you never see their full-backs bombing on to look for a second goal when they are 1-0 up.
"Arsenal are not out of it yet but I cannot see them finishing higher than third.
"They have missed a massive opportunity to end their 12-year wait for the title and it is down to the same old frailties - they are arguably the best team to watch in the division on their day, but they are as flaky as ever.
"Sometimes you need a different voice. Arsene Wenger said this week he has no plans to stand down as Gunners boss but he has too much power if he can decide when he does go, and I don't think it is right.
"As for Manchester City, I have spent the last few months thinking that they are going to kick into gear, but it has not happened.
"They have been awful away from home, taking only 11 points from their last 11 away league games, and scoring only seven goals.
"Five of their final eight league games are on the road and I cannot see them hanging on to fourth place."
Lawrenson: "I said before the international break that Leicester are on course to win the title and I don't see anything in their remaining games to change that.
"Yes they have to go to Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge in May, but forget the clubs they will play and look at their teams and their league position.
"Manchester United are ordinary and Chelsea are poor, while Leicester are the best team in the league and have been all season.
"As far as the top four goes, I just don't think Manchester City are going to get in the Champions League places - the whole club looks as flat as a pancake.
"I think City should just say to Manuel Pellegrini now, in the nicest way, 'thank-you very much and goodbye', and put someone else in charge until the end of the season.
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"It is a bit like 'Waiting for Godot' now. We are all just waiting for Pep Guardiola's arrival in the summer and I would just say to Pellegrini 'don't waste any more time here with these players, because some of them have given up on you'.
"It has turned into a horrible situation and by keeping him hanging on it is just prolonging the agony for everyone. I know they are still in the Champions League, but the whole thing has just become a bit embarrassing."
Nevin: "Form and momentum will make all the difference in terms of who finishes fourth.
"West Ham are in great form right now, Manchester City aren't - and Manchester United are just too up and down.
"Looking at those three teams, player for player, if the Hammers can keep everyone fit they can sneak in there, although things are so close it is just a toss-up really.
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"Like everyone else, I keep waiting for Leicester to fall, but the only thing that could possibly upset them now is if they get some injuries.
"Without Vardy or Mahrez, or both, they would be in some trouble but even then they have got Leonardo Ulloa and Shinji Okazaki, who are capable of coming in and getting them over the line."
Hartson: "West Ham are flying, and they do not look in danger of running out of steam despite the fact their season started weeks before everyone else's did - on 2 July in the Europa League first qualifying round against Andorran side Lusitanos.
"Their home form is especially impressive - they lost their first two league games at Upton Park in August, but have not lost any of their next 12 since then.
"Five of their final eight league games are at home and I think that will help them finish fourth. They are still in the FA Cup too.
"My old team seem to be embracing the fact this is their final season at a stadium that has been their home since 1904, and they want to finish really strongly before they move to the Olympic Stadium.
"I think they can do it, and get in the Champions League places.
"People who say they did not expect Leicester to slip up are lying, but they have stood up to every challenge that has come their way.
"If the Foxes do win the league, they will absolutely deserve it - they have played the best football and they will have won it on merit."


A 16-year-old youth has been charged with the murder of a man stabbed to death near tennis courts in a west London park.

Harjit Singh Dulai, 44, from Uxbridge, was attacked in Rosedale Park, off Albion Road, Hayes, on the evening of 27 January. He died later in hospital.
The accused is due before Wimbledon Youth Court later.
As well as murder, he is also facing a charge of possession of an offensive weapon.
Five other men were arrested on suspicion of murder. Four have been bailed and one released without charge.


Nico Rosberg is world champion, becoming the 33rd driver in Formula 1 history to claim the sport's most coveted crown.

At 31, he could yet go on to win many more, but for now he is alongside his father Keke and 2016 racing rivals Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen as a one-title winner.
Seventeen drivers - including James Hunt and Nigel Mansell - have won one world title, but which of them is the greatest? Which driver should perhaps have won more?
You decide. Select your top five drivers, with number one being the greatest.
Who are your greatest one-time world champions?


Two new species of magnolia flower have been identified after being spotted on "Noah's Ark" online archive.

Photographs of the endangered Magnolia dealbata, held by Bristol-based Arkive, were seen by a botanist at a Mexican university more than 5,500 miles away.
The plants were tracked to Mexico's Serra Gorda Biosphere Reserve and identified.
Lucie Muir, chief executive of Arkive, said they were "thrilled" by the discovery.
After seeing pictures of the flowers, botanist Dr Jose Antonio Vazquez asked the original photographer for more images of the plant.
Photographer Roberto Pedraza Ruiz said he then made several more trips to the forest "documenting the flowers and fruits of the trees until finally receiving confirmation that I had photographed not only one but two completely new species of magnolias".
The first specimen was named Magnolia rzedowskiana, after emininet Mexican botanist, Dr Jerzy Rzedowski, while the second is to be named Magnolia pedrazae, in honour of its photographer.
Mr Ruiz said: "This is without doubt the highest honour that a conservationist and nature photographer can receive."
The Arkive website, run by the charity Wildscreen, hosts 16,000 images of flora and fauna.
It claims to be the world's largest online encyclopaedia of life, receiving donations of images from wildlife film-makers, photographers, conservationists and scientists.


Former English premiership footballer Stan Collymore has indicated to his 750,000 Twitter followers that he has left Labour and joined the SNP.

A picture posted by the broadcaster appeared to show he had taken out membership of the Scottish party.
Mr Collymore was unhappy that 66 Labour MPs had backed the Conservative government on air strikes in Syria.
The SNP's 54 MPs voted against the House of Commons motion, which was passed by 397 to 223.
The 44-year-old said he had only rejoined Labour a "couple of months ago", but had now decided to cancel his membership.
Shortly after posing the question: "Can an Englishman join the SNP?" he tweeted an image reading: "Thank you for your payment to the SNP."
Mr Collymore also wrote: "Done. No more Tories infiltrating the grand old party of working people anymore. Time to change."
The SNP did not confirm to the BBC that the football pundit had joined the party. However, a spokesman said: "It is no surprise that people are leaving the Labour Party and joining the SNP after the House of Commons voted for air strikes."


Falling prices for copper, zinc and nickel put pressure on mining shares in London on Thursday.

The price of copper hit a one-month low after a report showed that Chinese metal imports slowed sharply in November.
BHP Billiton closed down 1.6%, Rio Tinto fell 1% and Anglo American slipped 0.7%.
However, the FTSE 100 managed a modest gain towards the end of the session, rising 0.3% to 7,064.
"Some of the mining stocks, the amount they've jumped from the lows this year, they've probably out-done the bounce in the metals prices," said Jasper Lawler, senior market analyst at London Capital Group.
He said that next year shares in mining firms will be "exposed", if metal demand does not recover and supply does not fall as much as thought.
The best performer on the FTSE 100 was the business consultant group DCC, which rose more than 3%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was edging lower on Thursday, but still remains within striking distance of 20,000.
The pound dipped 0.47% against the dollar to $1.2296. It was 0.77% lower against the euro at â‚¬1.176.


Police are hunting thieves who targeted an Arbroath flat twice in the space of two days.

The raiders stole house keys, a computer tablet and a mobile phone from the St Vigeans Road flat between 18:00 on Tuesday and 07:30 on Wednesday.
Thieves then returned to steal four gent's watches from the same property at about 01:00 on Thursday.
Officers have appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward.


Theresa May has been attacked by Labour and Plaid Cymru after it emerged she would not meet Tata on her India visit.

The PM said she had hoped to meet "key people" from the firm, which owns Tata Steel, on her visit but schedules did not allow her to do that.
Labour MP Stephen Kinnock accused her of "complacency" while Plaid's Bethan Jenkins said the news was "alarming".
Tata Steel put plans to sell its UK business on hold in the summer as the company considered a European tie-up.
It employs almost 7,000 workers around Wales, including more than 4,000 at its plant in Port Talbot.
Recently the steel firm's former chairman Cyrus Mistry was replaced by Tata Sons with his predecessor, Ratan Tata.
Mrs May is in Delhi to pave the way for the UK's first post-Brexit trade deal.
"I had hoped to be able to meet key people from Tata while I was in India," said Mrs May.
"Sadly, the schedules don't allow me to do that on this particular visit.
"But there are regular contacts between the Government and Tata Steel for some time now. There continues to be those regular contacts to ensure we maintain - as been maintained so far - that steel production in the UK."
First Minister Carwyn Jones told a meeting of the assembly's external affairs committee on Monday the matter was "unfortunate".
Mr Kinnock, Labour MP for Aberavon which takes in the Port Talbot steelworks, said the government should have sought to meet Tata "at a time of great uncertainty thanks to the ongoing talks around a joint venture, internal changes at Tata, the ongoing dumping of Chinese steel and Brexit".
He said: "The approach of the government towards our steel industry has been characterised by a combination of incompetence and indifference, and today's news confirms that we can throw complacency in the mix too."
Plaid's Ms Jenkins said it was "extremely alarming that the Prime Minister has failed to arrange a meeting with senior figures at Tata Sons Ltd during her visit to India".
She added: "With the long-term future of the Welsh and UK steel industry remaining uncertain, the prime minister needed to make a meeting with Tata a priority."


A week that began with a reset ended with Russia, the scandal that refuses to go away.

On Tuesday night, when Donald Trump delivered his first speech before a joint session of Congress, there was a new tone, in marked contrast to the shrillness of his American carnage inaugural, and even new tailoring, a more sleekly fitted suit.
His Twitter feed, that angry scream of consciousness, had also been unusually quiet.
"THANK YOU!" he wrote in caps on Wednesday morning, after his speech received admiring reviews not just from Republicans but some Democratic pundits as well.
Then on Wednesday night, after a day of unusually flattering coverage, came the triple whammy of stories from the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal: Russia, Russia, Russia.
His Attorney General Jeff Sessions, America's top law enforcement official, was accused of lying to Congress when he denied having any communications with the Russians.
At the precise moment some White House officials hoped to have stabilised the Trump presidency after a wobbly start, the Russian revelations again had a destabilising effect.
Now it has emerged that five Trump advisers, including the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, interacted with the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.
Tuesday night's speech put the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill more firmly behind Trump. A delighted House Speaker Paul Ryan called it a "home run".
The Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell declared that Trump had become "presidential", especially in that emotional moment when he paid tribute to Carryn Owens, the widow of the Navy SEAL killed in a raid in Yemen.
But in response to the Russian revelations, one senses a certain tension between their partisan and patriotic instincts.
The Republican partisan voice says this is a historic conservative moment.
Rarely is such power wielded.
Indeed, only two of the last five Republican presidents have addressed a joint session of Congress in which the GOP (Grand Old Party) held majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Ronald Reagan never got that privilege. Nor did Richard Nixon.
This, then, is a rare opportunity to do big things, like enact tax reform, and dismantle big things, such as Obamacare.
But the Republican patriotic voice expresses nagging concerns that Russia, America's great post-war adversary, could have subverted US democracy and that requires investigation. The Kremlin's nefarious activities have to be exposed.
This conflict between the partisan and patriotic explains their somewhat half-hearted approach to the investigation.
Four Republican-controlled congressional committees could end up looking into the Kremlin's alleged meddling, but the Republican leadership has dismissed calls from the Democrats to appoint a special prosecutor, an independent counsel over whom they would have little control.
Scandal is the highest form of entertainment that Washington has to offer. Nothing arouses this sleepy city quite like the whiff of political blood. And it is unusual to experience this kind of agitated atmosphere so early in an administration.
Historically speaking, major scandals tend to erupt in the second term of a presidency.
Watergate, which led to Nixon's resignation. Iran-contra, which plagued Ronald Reagan. Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill Clinton's impeachment.
The Russian allegations have not reached that fever pitch. But this is only the second month of Trump presidency, and already he has lost his national security advisor, Michael Flynn, and seen his Attorney General face calls to resign.
This scandal is also following familiar patterns. The drip, drip, drip of damning revelations. The sense that key Trump aides have tried to conceal the extent of their contacts with the Russians, which points to a cover-up.
Michael Flynn misled Vice-President Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador, which led to his resignation. Jeff Sessions misled Congress, which led to calls for him to go. Jared Kushner did not volunteer the information that he met the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition. The press revealed it.
It's often the cover-up rather than the alleged crime, misdemeanour or mistake that causes the most political and personal damage.
Donald Trump is clearly irked by the allegation that he won the presidential election with a Russian assist. And so the week ends with a return of his angry Twitter voice.
Posted on his Twitter feed is a picture of the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer enjoying what looks like coffee and a donut with the Russian president Vladimir Putin, along with a call for an immediate investigation.
From the reset to Russia in 140 characters.


A 12.03-carat blue diamond has been auctioned in Geneva for a record $48.4m (£31.7m) to a Hong Kong tycoon.

Joseph Lau confirmed he bought the ring-mounted, cushion-shaped stone for his seven-year-old daughter, renaming it "Blue Moon of Josephine" after her.
Auction house Sotheby's said the sale had set "a new world auction record for any diamond of any colour".
It is not the first time Lau, a property billionaire, has bought precious stones for his daughter.
The businessman - who was convicted of bribery and money laundering in 2014 - is also confirmed as the buyer of a 16.08-carat pink diamond, which Christie's sold for $28.5m on Tuesday.
It has been renamed "Sweet Josephine", a spokeswoman for Mr Lau told BBC News.
In 2009, he bought another blue diamond for his daughter - the 7.03-carat "Star of Josephine" - paying what was then a record $9.5m.
He was sentenced to five years in jail after his corruption convictions in a Macau court, but has avoided prison by not visiting the territory. There is no extradition treaty between Macau and Hong Kong.
Sotheby's spokesman David Bennett described Wednesday's blue diamond as "magical".
"I've never seen a more beautiful stone," he said.
"The shape, the colour, the purity, it's a magical stone and everybody, I think, who put it on their finger thought so."
Two bidders were locked in a telephone bidding war for eight minutes before the hammer went down on Wednesday's sale, correspondents say, with the jewel not exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $35-$55m.
The diamond was found in South Africa in January last year and its striking blue colour is attributed to the presence of the element boron within its crystal structure.
It was named "Blue Moon" to reflect its rarity.
Experts say the market for coloured diamonds has become increasingly strong in recent months, with both blue and pink diamonds attracting a lot of attention in jewel sales in Geneva.
Coloured diamonds are among the rarest in the world, even ones that are not particularly vivid or clear.
The Graff Pink - a 24.78-carat pink diamond auctioned for $46.2 million in Geneva in 2010 - was the previous diamond world auction record holder.
In 2013 a diamond known as the Pink Star was sold for what was then believed to be a record breaking $83m (£52m) - also at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.
However, the buyer later defaulted on the purchase, and Sotheby's was forced to buy the diamond under its auction contract.


The European Commission has announced emergency EU funding of 125m euros (£100m; $170m) for fruit and vegetable growers hit by Russia's ban on most imported Western food.

The funding is compensation for fresh produce which will not be sold. Instead it will be distributed free to schools, hospitals and other institutions.
Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, grapes and pears are included in the scheme.
Russia has banned many food imports, angry at EU-US sanctions over Ukraine.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Monday that the EU sanctions must stay in place "in order to show how serious we are" on the Ukraine crisis.
She was speaking in Latvia, an EU member state with a large ethnic Russian minority. Its Baltic neighbour Lithuania is especially hard hit by the Russian import ban.
EU and US sanctions are targeting top Russian officials and key economic sectors, such as energy and finance, as Western leaders accuse the Kremlin of destabilising eastern Ukraine by supporting the pro-Russian separatists there.
The first round of Western sanctions came after Russia annexed Crimea in March.
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he did not think the Russian ban would push up food prices, but he added: "I hope these measures won't last very long".
The embargo would encourage competition, giving Russian farmers more market access, he argued. He criticised "a situation where all the apples, for example, come from Poland or some other products - say fish is an example - all from Norway".
In the EU the biggest exporters of fresh fruit and nuts to Russia were its neighbours Poland (339m euros) and Lithuania (309m euros) in 2013. They were also the biggest for fresh vegetables (Lithuania - 340m and Poland - 173m).
Last week the Commission announced plans to pay peach and nectarine growers for 10% of their crop, and the new funding expands that aid to many more producers.
The crops affected by the EU compensation scheme are those in full season now, with no storage option for most of them and no immediate alternative market available, a statement from Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos said.
"All farmers of the concerned products - whether in producer organisations or not - will be eligible to take up these market support measures where they see fit," he said.
The measures will apply until the end of November.
Data includes re-exports of EU food products, eg for Lithuania exporting products originating in the Netherlands or Belgium.
SOURCE: European Commission
The compensation will come from a special 420m-euro fund set up under the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), for farmers facing potentially ruinous emergencies.
The food types covered by the new compensation scheme are: tomatoes, carrots, white cabbage, peppers, cauliflowers, cucumbers and gherkins, mushrooms, apples, pears, red berries, table grapes and kiwis.
On 7 August, Russia declared a one-year embargo on meat, fish, dairy products, fruit and vegetables from the EU, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway in retaliation for Western economic sanctions.
EU fruit exports to Russia last year were worth 1.07bn euros (£855m; $1.4bn) - the biggest agricultural export sector, ahead of dairy produce and meat.
Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Denmark each face losses running into hundreds of millions of euros because of the Russian ban, the Financial Times reports.


The Scottish government is expected to respond this week to concerns about the transportation of radioactive material from a Highlands airport.

Highly-enriched uranium was transferred from Dounreay, near Thurso, to the US via Wick John O'Groats Airport in 2016.
The transfers were made following a deal agreed by UK and US governments.
The airport, 30 miles from Dounreay, is run by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (Hial), a public corporation owned by Scottish ministers.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority provided Hial with funding to upgrade the airport in preparation for the US flights.
Further flights of the material, in exchange for a type of uranium from the US used to diagnose cancer, are expected in the future.
Highlands Scottish Greens MSP John Finnie has raised concerns about the suitability of Wick John O'Groats Airport to the Scottish government. The MSP does not believe the airport to be suitable for the large aircraft involved.
Mr Finnie has also asked what role Hial played in negotiations about the flights and also what extra costs Police Scotland has incurred in helping to provide security for the flights.
The government is expected to release a response to his questions on Tuesday.
Dounreay, near Thurso, is being decommissioned and the site cleaned up.
Most of the radioactive materials held there, such as fuel, are being moved to other locations, including Sellafield in Cumbria where it will be reprocessed or stored.
These shipments are being made by rail.
Other material has been returned to nuclear sites overseas.
During the 1990s, nuclear material was sent from abroad to Dounreay for reprocessing.
The customers included power plants and research centres in Australia, Germany and Belgium.
Dounreay said the priority "at all times" was to comply with regulations governing "the safe and secure transportation of nuclear material, both in storage and transit".


The government might apply to the Court of Appeal over a High Court judge's ruling ministers made an error of law over the new religious studies GCSE.

Last month, Mr Justice Warby ruled ministers had erred by saying the GCSE would "fulfil the entirety" of the state's religious education duty.
Three families had argued the course "skewed" religious education by excluding non-religious world views.
The government said it disagreed with "some aspects" of the judge's decision.
A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said Mr Justice Warby had turned down an earlier request for permission to appeal against his ruling, so ministers were considering seeking leave to appeal directly to the Court of Appeal.
"However, we fully accept there is a proper place for the consideration of non-religious worldviews in a religious education curriculum," he said.
"The judgement does not require changes to the structure or content of the new RS GCSEs.
"The new GCSEs will ensure pupils understand the diversity of religious and non-religious beliefs in Great Britain.
"In future, for the first time, all pupils studying RS GCSE will need to study two religions rather than just one."
In his ruling, Mr Justice Warby ruled there had been a breach of the state's legal duty to provide religious education that reflected the pluralistic nature of the UK.
He said: "It is not of itself unlawful to permit an RS GCSE to be created which is wholly devoted to the study of religion."
But he added Education Secretary Nicky Morgan had erred in announcing the new course in February by asserting that it would "fulfil the entirety of the state's [religious education] duties".
He said schools would interpret this to mean non-religious views need not be included in the teaching.
"The assertion thus represents a breach of the duty to take care that information or knowledge included in the curriculum is conveyed in a pluralistic manner," he said.
The DfE spokesman said it would be inappropriate to spell out full details of the request for leave to appeal before they had been considered by the court.
The families who brought the original case included one from Cumbria and one from Kent who cannot be identified. The third family is Kate Bielby, from Frome in Somerset, and her daughter Daisy.
The families were backed by the British Humanist Association, which, at the time, described the High Court ruling as a "triumph" for its efforts to ensure parity for non-religious world views.
The new course is due for first teaching from next September.


Police have released descriptions of two men wanted in connection with the rape of a 14-year-old girl on her way to school in Oxford.

She was raped after being snatched from a street and forced into a car on Wednesday morning.
The girl, wearing a school uniform, was forced into a silver hatchback car as she walked in the Banbury Road area of Summertown between 08:15 - 08:40 BST.
Thames Valley Police has issued detailed descriptions of the men.
The first offender is a white man who spoke with a northern accent.
He has been described by the girl as aged in his mid twenties, balding with shaven dark blonde hair. He has blue eyes is of medium build and about 6ft (1.82m) tall.
He was wearing a hooded top with one pocket on the front and no drawstrings or logo, and black trousers.
The second man is white with brown gelled hair, is cleanly shaven and has brown eyes.
He is aged in his late teens or early 20s.
He is described as slightly smaller in build than the first offender.
Det Supt Chris Ward, said: "Please rest assured that we are carrying out a thorough investigation but we also need the help of the public to bring these offenders to justice."
The teenager was found at midday by a member of public after knocking on doors to get help in Cavendish Drive, Marston.
The girl has since been receiving support from specialist officers.
Extra patrols were deployed in the area amid a major operation to find the two men.
At a press conference on Thursday, it was said the girl was approached and possibly hugged, something that could have looked relatively innocent to witnesses.


Parents and teachers are not telling police about children who may try to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group for fear of criminalising them, a former senior prosecutor has said.

Nazir Afzal said headteachers were "struggling" to offer advice to parents who did not know where to get help.
Two London heads had told him they were "scared" some pupils could flee during the Easter holidays, Mr Afzal said.
More than 500 Britons are believed to have joined IS in Syria and Iraq.
Mr Afzal, who stepped down this week as chief prosecutor for north-west England, said two headteachers had told him that "more than a dozen" parents had approached them since February to express fears about their children being radicalised.
Mr Afzal told BBC Radio 5 Live: "The message simply was: 'We don't want to get the police involved, we don't want to criminalise them, what do we do?'" he said.
He said the teachers did not know where to send the children or where to direct parents.
"They are worried that some of their children and some of the people they have care over will not be there when they return from the Easter break - and that must worry us all."
The concerns were "very, very real", Mr Afzal said, adding that teenagers were being lured by IS propaganda.
"You have got a situation where the boys want to be like them [the militants] and the girls want to be with them."
He called for an "army of young people and children" to be given training and talk to pupils.
Mr Afzal said "we must do more" to stop children becoming radicalised, comparing the process of radicalisation to sexual grooming.
"In extremist grooming, which is what we are dealing with here, they manipulate them by telling them there is a better place and a better life than what you have at the moment.
"They distance them from their family and friends, and then they take them and make it look like there is some better world that they will go to."
In February, three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in east London - Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana - disappeared from their homes and flew to Turkey.
They are believed to have crossed into Syria and joined IS.
It is understood they followed another 15-year-old girl from the same school - since named as Sharmeena Begum - who travelled to Syria in December.
Last month a High Court judge confiscated the passports of four other pupils at the school after concerns were raised by Tower Hamlets Council.


A 2.1 magnitude earthquake has struck in a Lincolnshire village.

The epicentre of the tremor was detected near Reepham, about five miles (8km) east of Lincoln, at 14:15 BST on Monday.
"People in the area may have heard a bang or felt a shudder for a second or two," said seismologist David Galloway.
Maxine Soroka, of Langworth, said: "I heard it and the house shook, but I had no idea what it was until this morning."
"My parents who live in Reepham said they also heard and felt it," she added.
Lincolnshire Police said it did not receive any reports of damage.
About 250 to 300 earthquakes hit the UK each year, although most go unnoticed by the public, according to British Geological Survey seismologist Mr Galloway.
In 2008, a 5.2-magnitude quake hit Market Rasen - 32,000 times more powerful than the tremor on Monday.


A teenager has appeared in court charged over the death of a 33-year-old man in Paisley.

James Crossan, 18, is accused of killing Johnathan McEwan in the early hours of Saturday morning by "repeatedly" punching him.
Mr McEwan was taken to Royal Alexandra Hospital after the attack to be treated for a head injury, but died on Tuesday.
Mr Crossan, from Paisley, was charged with culpable homicide. He made no plea or declaration.
The teenager originally appeared in court on Monday charged with attempted murder, but the charge was amended after Mr Crossan died.


Misconduct charges against three senior Caerphilly council officials have been dropped, the local authority has said.

Chief executive Anthony O'Sullivan, his deputy Nigel Barnett and head of legal services Daniel Perkins were first arrested in 2013.
They have been suspended on full pay since, with leader Keith Reynolds saying the council will now seek to recover the £1m cost.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it respected the court's decision.
Mr Reynolds said "serious questions" must be asked about the investigation.
Mr O'Sullivan was first arrested in March 2013, followed by the other two in July that year.
They were all charged with misconduct in public office, with a trial date set for November 2015 at Bristol Crown Court.
But a judge has now dismissed the case.
A spokesman for the CPS said: "The court today acceded to a defence application to dismiss the case against all three defendants and we respect that decision.
"This was a complicated, wide-reaching and lengthy investigation into serious allegations against council employees.
"CPS South West's Complex Casework Unit took the decision to charge the three defendants following extensive consultation with the police. Since that time the prosecution team has pursued the case within the proper judicial process."
The three officers will now remain suspended while the council "deals with the matter in accordance with its own procedure".
Mr Reynolds said many people will be "concerned and frustrated" about the process.
"There are serious questions to be asked of the CPS about the length of time taken and we will be seeking to recover the salary costs of the suspended officers which are now in excess of £1 million," he said.
Caerphilly MP Wayne David said he is "appalled" by the investigation and will raise the matter in parliament.


I have been speaking to Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon about how SNP MPs will vote after the next election.

With the polls predicting a doubling in the party's support and, potentially, a huge increase in the number of their MPs this really matters.
Specifically, Nicola Sturgeon says that SNP MPs will vote on the English NHS. Given that the Scottish government has complete control of the Scottish NHS, this is likely to fuel calls for "English votes for English laws".
She says the move is necessary to protect the Scottish NHS from the knock on effects of cuts and privatisation in England.
"We would be prepared to vote on matters of English health because that has a direct impact on Scotland's budget.
"So if there was a vote in the House of Commons to repeal the privatisation of the health service as has been seen in England to restore the National Health Service we would vote for that because that would help to protect Scotland's budget.
"If there are decisions taken to further privatise the NHS in England, and I don't think anybody thinks the Tories are progressively privatising the health service in order to increase the public funding of the health service, so decisions are taken, that reduce over time the public funding of the health service in England then that has a direct knock on effect to Scotland's budget."
Traditionally, the SNP position at Westminster is not to vote on matters which don't impact on Scotland unless they have a direct impact on the budget of Scotland via the so-called Barnett funding formula.
In recent years they voted to oppose the creation of Foundation Hospitals and the introduction of student tuition fees.
I asked the First Minister about figures that suggest spending on the English NHS has gone up faster than the Scottish NHS in recent years. Between 2009-10 and 2015-16 NHS Scotland cut spending by around 1% whereas the Westminster government has increased spending on the English NHS by around 4%.*
I also read out to her a quote from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies which said that "Scottish Governments in Holyrood have placed less priority on funding the NHS in Scotland (and more on funding other services) than governments in Westminster have for England".
This was her reply:
"[The figures] don't take into account for example our non profit distributing capital investment in the health service we gave a simple commitment that we would pass on all of the consequentials to the health service to the revenue budget of the health service, we've increased the revenue budget of the health service in real terms.
"I've given a commitment if we are re-elected to be the Scottish government in 2016 we will do that for each and every year. ...  we have protected the budget of the health service exactly as we said we would do."
I also asked her about whether Alex Salmond would, in effect, be back in charge of the SNP if the party did as well as opinion polls currently suggest in Westminster
"The SNP operates as a team, we always have and we always will, I know it's difficult for people schooled in the Westminster ways of politics who have watched the tensions and the rivalries between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair for many years to understand that, but Alex Salmond and I are not in competition, we are on the same side and on the same team, just as we have done for past 20 years we have been working together to make sure Scotland gets the best deal."
I couldn't help notice that before she answered she smiled.
UPDATE, 5pm: I've also been speaking to Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy who has urged Scots to vote Labour rather than SNP, saying this is the best chance to remove David Cameron from No 10.
He said an SNP vote would "by accident" help keep the Conservatives in power.
When I asked him if voters wouldn't want the best of both worlds, a Labour government in Westminster backed up by the SNP, Mr Murphy told me:
"The Scottish Labour Party is going to stand up for Scotland's interests. The Scottish Labour Party is changing, we're changing our constitution, changing the way we in which we work - we're confident, we're patriotic and we're determined.
"But the truth is, come the election in May, this isn't a re-run of last year's referendum where Scots were divided.  In May it's about how do we come together, make Scotland a fairer country and get rid of David Cameron.  There's only one party big enough and strong enough to do that - any seat the SNP wins in Scotland reduces the size of the Labour Party, increases the opportunity of David Cameron being the biggest party again and him holding on to power.  That would be dreadful for Scotland."
On Nicola Sturgeon's comments saying the SNP would vote on the English NHS after the next election Mr Murphy said:
'I worry, I worry of course that some Scots who are tempted to vote SNP in the belief it's the re-run of last year's referendum, when of course the referendum was last year's disagreement, who governs the UK is this year's decision.  Is that if Scots do go out and vote for the SNP in any number what it does is reduce the size of the Labour Party, increases the chances of David Cameron holding on to power and being elected Prime Minister again.  Scotland doesn't want that.  Now, in terms of the SNP voting on the health service - there's a way of getting a better health service, there's a way of getting more money into Scotland's health service and it's by voting for the Labour Party."
He went on to say "one of the strange things about the SNP is that they've been in power for over seven years and the fact is that they are spending less on the NHS proportionately than what David Cameron is, in terms of the increases.  So it's remarkable for the SNP not to be as generous towards the NHS as even David Cameron and the Tories.  So Scots know the SNP hasn't prioritised the NHS.  We're in the middle of a winter crisis in Scotland's NHS and the only way to save the NHS is to elect a Labour government and get rid of David Cameron from office, not these games the SNP are playing. This is serious business, it's a matter of the future of the NHS  and the last thing we need is David Cameron back in power."


David Bowie has been posthumously nominated for the British artist of the year prize at the BBC Music Awards.

The celebrated singer, who died in January aged 69, is joined by Adele, Calvin Harris, Coldplay and Jess Glynne on the five-strong shortlist.
Adele was named British artist of the year in 2015, one of the two awards she won at last year's event.
This year's awards, to be broadcast live on BBC One, will be held at the ExCel in London on 12 December.
Bowie's nomination follows his surprise omission from the album of the year shortlist announced last month.
Blackstar, his final release, had been tipped for inclusion but was shut out by Rick Astley's 50, Adele's 25 and three other titles.
Kaiser Chiefs, Craig David, John Legend and Robbie Williams are among the performers at this year's ceremony.
It was announced last week that pop singer Izzy Bizu will be crowned BBC Introducing artist of the year at the event.
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A £4.4m debt owed by Glamorgan Cricket Club has been written off by Cardiff council.

The club had asked its main creditors, which include the council, to write off about 70% of its debts.
Cabinet members discussed the proposal on Thursday.
The council said the redevelopment of the Swalec Stadium was part-funded by loans from creditors including themselves, with £16m owed.
Glamorgan asked creditors to write-off 70% of the money and interest owing and agree to a restructuring of the remaining 30%.
The plan to write off £4.4m from a debt of £6.4m the club owes to the council was recommended in a report to the council's cabinet.
Councillor and cabinet member Graham Hinchey said: "As with many organisations, changes to the economy had a detrimental effect on Glamorgan County Cricket Club.
"However, it is imperative that this long established sporting institution does not go into administration."
Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris said: "The council's decision is extremely important to the club and is one of the final pieces in the jigsaw in re-negotiating our debt.
"The club still faces financial challenges in the months and years ahead and we are mindful of our responsibility to develop our business to safeguard our long-term future."
Glamorgan's other main creditors - Allied Irish Bank and Paul Russell - the club's former chairman, have also agreed to the restructuring proposal.
The club successfully hosted an Ashes Test at the Swalec Stadium with Australia in 2009 and will host a further Ashes Test this year.


Sponsors and broadcasters should help fund the fight against doping, says World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) president Sir Craig Reedie.

A Wada independent commission revealed a state-sponsored doping programme in Russian athletics in November.
Athletes have called for Wada to widen its investigation to other countries and sports.
To do this, Reedie said Wada would need help to increase its current budget, which is approximately $26m (£18m).
"If full-blown investigations are to become the norm, then we must of course seriously explore greater funding," he said.
"I have heard ever-more vociferous calls for a slice of the millions of dollars that are paid for sport television revenue to be provided to the anti-doping cause.
"This is a bold idea. I put it to the leading sport federations and broadcasters. Now is the time to look at this seriously.
"I also think that major sport sponsors should start to consider how they might help fund clean sport."
The World Olympians Association, which represents Olympic athletes, has backed calls from Beckie Scott, chair of the committee that represents athletes at Wada, to widen its investigations.
Wada director general David Howman has said his organisation's effectiveness was limited by a lack of resources.
"When I started at Wada, Wayne Rooney was being paid $4m a year by Manchester United," Howman told the BBC last year. "He's now being paid something like $30m.
"We were getting $20m when he first started, we're now getting $30m."


Katherine Garrett-Cox, one of the most high-profile women in the investment industry, is leaving Alliance Trust as part of sweeping changes at the FTSE 250 company.

Ms Garrett-Cox will leave in March following a battle with shareholder Elliott Advisors over strategy.
She was appointed as chief executive of Alliance Trust in 2008.
Last year, Ms Garrett-Cox stepped down from the board but continued to lead its fund management arm.
Once dubbed "Katherine the Great" following a career in the City, Ms Garrett-Cox had engaged in a long-running battle with Elliott Advisors over the performance of the Dundee-based investment trust, as well as pay rewards to the chief executive and the then chairwoman Karin Forseke.
Ms Garrett-Cox was paid a total of Â£1.3m for 2014, the most recent available figure.
Consequently, two new non-executive directors, Chris Samuel and Karl Sternberg, were added to the board to increase oversight of the management.
Lord Smith of Kelvin, the chairman of Alliance Trust, who replaced Ms Forseke in January, said: "Alliance Trust is now moving swiftly to implement the changes announced last year, which are designed to enhance shareholder returns.
"This process is well under way and it is clear to us all that the role of chief executive of Alliance Trust Investments has changed significantly.  I and the rest of the board wish Katherine every success in the future."


Friday's Championship game between leaders Brighton & Hove Albion and Cardiff City has been postponed because of heavy fog.

Both clubs and referee Chris Kavanagh agreed the game should be called off at 18:00 GMT, after three inspections.
The late decision was likely to have affected Cardiff fans travelling to the south coast for the 19:45 kick-off.
"Player and spectator safety has to be paramount," Albion chief executive Paul Barber told BBC Sussex.
"In terms of looking at the situation for the players and the fans, it was in everyone's best interests.
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"Chris [Hughton - Brighton manager] thinks it's the right decision as do Cardiff's coaches as well."
Match official Kavanagh said he was left with little choice but to call off the match at short notice.
"The conditions have got worse. In the centre of the field it's difficult to see the assistant referee on the nearside," he added.
"If I've paid money I want to see the game and from different vantage points in the crowd it's difficult to see the pitch."
Brighton can be overtaken at the top if second-placed Newcastle beat Nottingham Forest at home.
It is not yet known when the re-arranged fixture will take place.


More than 800 firefighters in Portugal are tackling big wildfires in Serra do Caramulo, a hilly central region.

France and Spain have sent several water-bombing planes to help the Portuguese effort.
One firefighter was killed and nine were injured on Thursday near the town of Tondela.
The biggest fire is near Covilha, east of Tondela, Portugal's Jornal de Noticias website reports. Several suspected arsonists have been arrested.
Firefighters spent the whole night battling another blaze, near the town of Vouzela.
Portugal's Minister of Internal Administration, Miguel Macedo, pointed out the difficulty of fighting fires in thickly wooded hills.
"Firefighters die because the conditions in which they are fighting the fires in these kinds of terrain are extraordinarily difficult," he said.


The body of a man has been discovered on a mountain in Cumbria's Lake District.

Police confirmed members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team made the discovery on Helvellyn earlier.
A spokeswoman for the force said formal identification of the body had not yet taken place.
The family of a missing man, Michael Flanagan, has been informed of the discovery. The coroner is also due to be informed, police said.