Senior political correspondent Andrew Sparrow assesses the depth of the damage to Labour in the European elections, and explains how the BNP will now get party funding from Europe.
In other news, Polly Curtis, our education editor, assesses the implications of new figures showing a startling decline in the number of UK childminders.
Ben Dowell explains why Channel 4 plans to make its archive of programmes available to watch online free of charge.
And Billy Bragg tells the Guardian's Steven Morris why he's embarked on a tour of Wales to mark 25 years since the miners' strike.
