If Chinese hackers accessed the government's private messages, maybe they could share the missing 5,000 text messages the Covid inquiry was looking for.
Will Dunn and Anoosh Chakelian discuss their stories of the week, including:
- Border breach of the week: China accused of hacking Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss aides.
- Lee Anderson can't find the right constituency to campaign in.
- Do the Fabians secretly run the world? (spoiler: no.)
- Planning objection of the week: Greens and Reform unite in an unlikely alliance to block new homes.
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