Bafflement, anger, disappointment, and sheer frustration are all on relatively open display at the circular firing squad which seems to have surrounded the prime minister.
The botched effort to flush out backroom plotters and force Wes Streeting to declare his loyalty ahead of the budget has instead led even previously loyal Starmerites to predict the PM could be forced out of office before the local elections in May.
"We have so many councillors coming up for election across the country," one says, "and at the moment it looks like they're going to be wiped out. That's our base - we just can't afford to lose them. I like Keir [Starmer] but there's only a limited window left to turn things around. There's a real question of urgency."
Another criticised a "boys club" at No 10 who they claimed have "undermined" the prime minister and "forgotten they're meant to be serving the British people."
There's clearly widespread muttering about what to do next - and even a degree of enviousness at the lack of a regicidal 1922 committee mechanism, as enjoyed by the Tories.
"Leadership speculation is destabilising," one said. "But there's really no obvious strategy. Andy Burnham isn't even an MP. You'd need a stalking horse candidate and we don't have one. There's no 1922. It's very messy."
Others are gunning for the chancellor after months of careful pitch-rolling for manifesto-breaching tax rises in the budget were ripped up overnight.
"Her career is toast," one told me. "Rachel has just lost all credibility. She screwed up on the manifesto. She screwed up on the last two fiscal events, costing the party huge amounts of support and leaving the economy stagnating.
"Having now walked everyone up the mountain of tax rises and made us vote to support them on the opposition day debate two days ago, she's now worried her job is at risk and has bottled it.
"Talk to any major business or investor and they are holding off investing in the UK until it is clear what the UK's tax policy is going to be, putting us in a situation where the chancellor is going to have to go through this all over again in six months - which just means no real economic growth for another six months."
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After less than 18 months in office, the government is stuck in a political morass largely of its own making.
Treasury sources have belatedly argued that the chancellor's pre-budget change of heart on income tax is down to better-than-expected economic forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
That should be a cause of celebration. The question is whether she and the PM are now too damaged to make that case to the country - and rescue their benighted prospects.
The collision happened on the L3168 in Gibstown, Dundalk, shortly after 9pm.
Police said the five victims were all aged in their 20s and had been in the same vehicle, a Volkswagen Golf.
They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Another man, also in his 20s, was "removed" from the car and taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, where he was treated for "serious non-life-threatening injuries", said Superintendent Charlie Armstrong.
The Golf was in a collision with a Toyota Land Cruiser.
A man and a woman in the second vehicle were also taken to the same hospital.
Their injuries are described as "non-life-threatening".
Praise for emergency response
Superintendent Armstrong said an investigation into the road crash was under way, as he praised the emergency services.
He said: "The scene was very difficult, in adverse weather conditions, and the professionalism shown by all first responders and the care and respect shown to the five deceased was exemplary.
"This tragedy, with the loss of five young adults, will have a deep impact on families and local communities in Carrickmacross, Dromconrath and in Scotland.
"This is a shocking, devastating event for these families, their communities and the community here in Dundalk."
He said family liaison officers have been appointed to each of the families and police will keep them updated.
'Veil of deep sadness'
Ireland's deputy prime minister Simon Harris said a "veil of deep sadness" had come over the country.
He said his thoughts were "with the families of those who have lost loved ones, their friends, and their communities".
Mr Harris added: "I also want to pay tribute to the emergency services.
"One cannot even imagine the extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances in which they found themselves working last night as they set about trying to help in the most harrowing of situations."
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Superintendent Armstrong urged anyone with information about the collision to contact the investigation team.
He said: "I am appealing to any person who was on the L3168 between 8.30pm and 9.15pm, last night Saturday November 15 2025, to contact the Garda investigation team.
"I am appealing to any person who might have any camera footage or images from the L3168, Gibstown area, between 8.30pm and 9.15pm last night, to give that footage or images to the investigation team at Dundalk Garda Station."
The L3168 was closed between the N52 and the R171 as forensic experts investigated, and traffic diversions were in place.
Pablo Vazquez, security secretary for Mexico's capital, said that of those injured, 100 were police officers with 40 hospitalised, while 20 people were arrested.
The demonstration, which was mostly peaceful but ended with some clashes with officers, was organised by young people under the banner Generation Z.
Clara Brugada, mayor of Mexico City, said on X that "violent expression violates the rights of others" and condemned any act "carried out by a radical group of protesters".
One group, calling itself Generation Z Mexico, called for the protests and said in a "manifesto" circulating on social media that it represents Mexican youth fed up with violence, corruption and abuse of power.
Mexico has seen a recent spate of high-profile murders, including the fatal shooting of the mayor of the Uruapan municipality during Day Of The Dead festivities at the start of the month.
Supporters of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, an outspoken critic of organised crime, were seen on Saturday wearing straw hats - a symbol of the mayor's political movement.
Eyewitnesses told the Reuters news agency that a small group of protesters tore down fences around the National Palace where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum lives, leading to clashes with riot police who used tear gas.
Some demonstrators in Mexico City protested against Ms Sheinbaum's party, while others called for stronger state efforts to stop crime and violence, shouting: "Carlos did not die, the government killed him."
Other marches took place across Mexico, including in the western state of Michoacan, where Mr Manzo was murdered.
Reuters reported that Mexico's government is claiming that the protests on Saturday were organised largely by right-leaning political opponents, and were promoted by bots on social media.
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It marks the latest instance of mass protests from young people, after a Gen Z uprising ousted the president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, earlier this month.
And in September, anti-government protests that exploded after Nepalese authorities blocked several social media platforms led to mass unrest and the resignation of the prime minister KP Sharma Oli.
Temperatures dropped to -7C (19.4F) in Tulloch Bridge in the Highlands on Saturday night, the lowest since 20 March, according to the Met Office.
It's set to get colder at the start of the week, with the weather agency raising the possibility of snow ahead, and a "marked wind chill" expected across much of the country.
Storm Claudia brought heavy rain across the south of England and Wales, with a major incident declared in Monmouth on Saturday after severe flooding.
Check the weather forecast where you are
According to the Sky Weather team, by early next week, daytime temperatures will be around 10C lower in parts of the south.
Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Holley said high pressure to the northwest "will drive a cold northerly flow from the Arctic", bringing with it "much colder conditions than of late".
"There will be widespread frosts across the UK, with temperatures dipping as low as -7C in places next week, and daytime temperatures staying in single figures across the country," he added.
"Couple this with a brisk northerly wind, and there will be a marked wind chill. This will be a notable change in our weather after a prolonged spell of above-average temperatures."
Mr Holley also warned, "It is possible warnings may be issued for snow and ice at times".
Cold weather warnings next week
For Sunday itself, the Met Office advised people to "grab the big coat" in preparation for chillier weather, and despite a "murky start" across the south, a "brighter day for all" with "lots of sunshine" and a "dry end to the weekend".
It comes after the UK Health Security Agency issued a cold weather warning for parts of the Midlands and northern England from Monday.
The cold weather alert is in place from 8am on Monday until 8am on Friday. It covers the East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, North West and Yorkshire and The Humber.
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Meanwhile, the Environment Agency has warned that flooding will continue throughout the weekend as the remnants of Storm Claudia move south.
As of 10am, 28 flood warnings and 91 alerts are in effect in England.
Natural Resources Wales has imposed four severe flood warnings amid fears there may be danger to life.
The government body also said that river water levels on the Monnow reached record levels, exceeding those recorded during Storm Dennis in 2020 and Storm Bert last year.
In the pavilions - warehouse-sized rooms chock full of stages, booths and people networking - the phrase "agentic AI" was everywhere.
There were AI agents that hung around your neck in jewellery, software to build agents into your workflows and more than 20 panel discussions on the topic.
Agentic AI is essentially artificial intelligence that can do specific tasks by itself, like book your flights or order an Uber or help a customer.
It's the industry's current buzzword and has even crept into the real world, with the Daily Mail listing "agentic" as an 'in' word for Gen Z last week.
But AI agents aren't new. In fact, Babak Hodjat, now chief AI officer at Cognizant, invented the technology behind one of the most famous AI agents, Siri, in the 1990s.
"Back then, the fact that Siri itself was multi-agentic was a detail that we didn't even talk about - but it was," he told Sky News from Lisbon.
"Historically, the first person that talked about something like an agent was Alan Turing."
New or not, AI agents are thought to come with even more risks than general-purpose AI, because they interact with and modify real-world scenarios.
The risks that come with AI, like bias in its data or unforeseen circumstances in how it interacts with humans, are magnified by agentic AI because it interacts with the world by itself.
"Agentic AI introduces new risks and challenges," wrote the IBM Responsible Technology Board in their 2025 report on the technology.
"For example, one new emerging risk involves data bias: an AI agent might modify a dataset or database in a way that introduces bias.
"Here, the AI agent takes an action that potentially impacts the world and could be irreversible if the introduced bias scales undetected."
But for Mr Hodjat, it's not AI agents we need to worry about.
"People are over-trusting [AI] and taking their responses on face value without digging in and making sure that it's not just some hallucination that's coming up.
"It is incumbent upon all of us to learn what the boundaries are, the art of the possible, where we can trust these systems and where we cannot, and educate not just ourselves, but also our children."
His warning will feel familiar, particularly in Europe, where there's an increased wariness around AI compared to the US.
But have we become too cautious when it comes to AI - at the risk of a far more existential threat in the future?
Jarek Kutylowski, chief executive of German AI language giant DeepL, certainly thinks so.
This year, the EU AI Act came into force, strict regulations about how companies can and can't use AI.
In the UK, companies are governed by existing legislation like GDPR and there's uncertainty about how strict our rules will be in the future.
When asked if we needed to slow down AI innovation in order to put stricter regulations in place, Mr Kutylowski said it was a question worth grappling with… but in Europe, we are taking it too far.
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"Looking at the apparent risks is easy, looking at the risks like what are we going to miss out on if we don't have the technology, if we are not successful enough in adopting that technology, that is probably the bigger risk," said Mr Kutylowski.
"I see definitely a much larger risk in Europe being left behind in the AI race.
"You won't see it until we start falling behind and until our economies cannot capitalise on those productivity gains that maybe other parts of the world will see.
"I do not believe personally that technological progress can be stopped in any way, so it is more of a question of 'how do we pragmatically embrace what is coming ahead?"