rowena, is there a sense that have gotten back to normal?ess, the house of lords and house of commons business is carrying on as before. but people are still sad and traumatised by what has happened there. it is incredibly grim and sad for all affected. we saw people die outside my office window. there were bodies therefore many hours stop its unbelievable, not what you expect. others went through to try and save lives, and it was worse on the bridge, but it is a difficult time. absolutely. finally, to end this edition of the papers, the daily telegraph, rowena, calling time on his london cap. it says that the duke of edinburgh has used a green metro cap for 18 years to travel incognito around london, but now he has called time on it. he has given it up. he has given it to the sandringham museum. he got in the back of a greens taxi, didn't talk to anyone, just got a view of what london was like. without having anyone looking at him. how many of us anyone looking at him. how many of us look at a full taxi, we look for empty taxis. clever. ver

rowena, first of all, there has been lots of talk about the tone of this letter today.commons, she seemed to take quite a conciliatory tone. there was lots of stuff about the strong and deep relationship with europe but in the letter itself, there is a lot of debate about whether the specific paragraph which mentions what will happen if we have no deal, theresa may says that we might not have security cooperation with the rest of europe, whether that constitutes a threat and a lot of people are saying it is. tim farren was one of the first out of the blocks to say so, yvette cooper as well. people will read it in different ways and the government have been slightly rowing back, amber rudd trying to blame down that idea. there were ten or ii blame down that idea. there were ten or 11 references to security in these five or six pages. what surprised me was the length of the letter, we expected it to be "well pulling out of the european union, here is article 50, take for brexit." and we got six or seven pages. for a prime brexit." and we got six or seven pages. fora prime

this evening in the papers — my guests tonight are the deputy political editor for the guardian, rowenaher hope, the assistant editor and chief political correspondent at the daily telegraph. qatar has committed £5 billion to invest in transport, property and digital technology in the uk. the qatari prime minister is visiting the uk and has met theresa may at downing street. the gulf state said it is optimistic about the future of the british economy — and that brexit had little bearing on its decision. qatar has already invested £40 billion in britain, it owns harrods and most of the shard in london. northern ireland's political parties have failed to meet a deadline, for agreement on power sharing at stormont. three weeks of talks couldn't bridge the deep divides between the democratic unionist party and sinn fein. the secretary of state for northern ireland, who has the power to impose direct rule from westminster, says there's no appetite for that. but he's warning the stalemate would have real consequences. here's our ireland correspondent chris buckler. so words like, "big"... the