From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racism

Who’s up for an in-depth look at the last 20 years of UK immigration policy? Come on, it’ll be fun!

I’m joking, of course. It’s no fun at all! It’s full of politicians, for a start, and they’re talking. It’s fascinating how unbearable almost every single one is, no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. The first instalment of the two-part documentary, Immigration: How British Politics Failed, fields Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, David Cameron and Michael Howard … It’s like there’s no safe place to rest your eyes, ears or brain, as they bloviate or simply recreate – alongside archive news footage and tabloid headlines – the lowlights of the past few decades, over the question of how many people, for what reason and with what motivation we should take in from other countries.

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Ali Musse, 66, charged after Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, pronounced dead at scene in East Street, Walworth

A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south London.

Police were called at about 10.40am on Sunday after reports of a number of people stabbed in East Street, Walworth. Three people were found with injuries and Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, from Southwark, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Metropolitan police said.

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Exclusive: inspectors raise alarm about mayor Lutfur Rahman, who previously served a five-year ban from office

Ministers are to intervene in the management of Tower Hamlets after inspectors raised the alarm about the leadership of the east London authority’s controversial mayor, Lutfur Rahman.

Sources have told the Guardian the government has decided to appoint an envoy to monitor management decisions at the council, which has been dogged by a series of controversies about public spending and senior-level appointments.

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Urfan Sharif allegedly reported to police for controlling behaviour by three ‘unconnected’ women before his daughter’s death

The father of Sara Sharif was accused of abusing three girlfriends before his daughter’s death, a court has heard.

Urfan Sharif, 42, was allegedly reported to the police by three “separate, unconnected women” who each accused him of holding them against their will and controlling behaviour.

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President-elect says ex-New York congressman will ‘ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions’ as EPA administrator

Donald Trump has picked Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), vowing the appointment will “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions” by the regulator.

Trump, who oversaw the rollback of more than 100 environmental rules when he last was US president, said that Zeldin was a “true fighter for America First policies” and that “he will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet”.

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Australian navy discovered USS Edsall late last year near Christmas Island, 80 years after its 1942 sinking by Japan

The wreck of the long-lost US warship USS Edsall, sent to the bottom of the sea during the second world war by the Japanese, has been discovered, US and Australian officials announced on Monday.

The warship was sunk on 1 March 1942, three months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The Edsall was traveling across the Indian Ocean south of Java when it was sunk by Japanese dive bombers.

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Francesca Albanese recently published a report in which she alleged that Israel was committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Campaigners against antisemitism have held protests outside universities in London against a visit by the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer specialising in human rights and the Middle East, was taking part in an event at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday.

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Richard Allen, 52, could face up to 130 years in prison for killings on a hiking trail in Delphi, a small Indiana town

A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.

Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The former drugstore worker was convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Allen, 52, could now face up to 130 years in prison.

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• Aston Villa player chosen for Nations League games
• Lee Carsley names final squad as interim manager

Lee Carsley has been rocked by an extraordinary eight withdrawals from his England squad to face Greece and Republic of Ireland in the Nations League, Phil Foden an unexpected name on the absentees list where he joins his Manchester City teammate Jack Grealish.

Carsley, in interim charge for the final time before he hands over to Thomas Tuchel in the new year, has reacted by giving a first call-up to Morgan Rogers, reward for the attacking midfielder’s dynamic form at Aston Villa this season. Also called in are Jarrad Branthwaite and Jarrod Bowen plus the uncapped Tino Livramento and James Trafford.

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