Chris McKeon
@cjmckeon.bsky.social
Political correspondent for PA, former local journalist, amateur sportsman, ex-historian, other things
The return to work also means a return to marathon training - targeting sub-4 hours this year and once again raising money for the great @anthonynolan.bsky.social - please give anything you can, they really do save lives 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/christoph...
January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The return to work also means a return to marathon training - targeting sub-4 hours this year and once again raising money for the great @anthonynolan.bsky.social - please give anything you can, they really do save lives 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/christoph...
And here’s today’s job - the PM in Reading to talk up his focus on the cost of living, part of a new strategy to talk about delivery rather than make new announcements.
Obviously, there were still questions about Venezuela and Greenland
Obviously, there were still questions about Venezuela and Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
And here’s today’s job - the PM in Reading to talk up his focus on the cost of living, part of a new strategy to talk about delivery rather than make new announcements.
Obviously, there were still questions about Venezuela and Greenland
Obviously, there were still questions about Venezuela and Greenland
First day back at work and I am…leaving London. Nothing like a slow, relaxed start to the year.
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
First day back at work and I am…leaving London. Nothing like a slow, relaxed start to the year.
The “100% faithful” thing still really annoys me, by the way. It’s a binary choice! You’re either 100% faithful or 0%!
January 2, 2026 at 11:13 PM
The “100% faithful” thing still really annoys me, by the way. It’s a binary choice! You’re either 100% faithful or 0%!
How not to handle questions about documents, a Cabinet Office guide
This was the most extraordinary story from this year’s National Archives releases
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
December 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
How not to handle questions about documents, a Cabinet Office guide
Chilly run with @sianelvin.bsky.social to bring up 1,000km for the year, just in time to start all over again in 2026
December 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Chilly run with @sianelvin.bsky.social to bring up 1,000km for the year, just in time to start all over again in 2026
Celebrating this morning’s unexpected news with two appropriate Christmas gifts from @sianelvin.bsky.social (what do you mean she’s got me completely figured out?)
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Celebrating this morning’s unexpected news with two appropriate Christmas gifts from @sianelvin.bsky.social (what do you mean she’s got me completely figured out?)
MPs ought to "question their own consciences" about continuing to use Elon Musk's X/Twitter, British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed tells me as he says the US decision to sanction him is a story about big tech "corruption". www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs should ‘question consciences’ on using X, says campaigner sanctioned by US
Imran Ahmed said the influence of big tech firms, including Mr Musk’s platform, was behind the bid to remove him from the US.
www.standard.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
MPs ought to "question their own consciences" about continuing to use Elon Musk's X/Twitter, British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed tells me as he says the US decision to sanction him is a story about big tech "corruption". www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Reposted by Chris McKeon
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
Reposted by Chris McKeon
Proud to announce @the-independent.com and @missingpeopleuk.bsky.social have hit our fundraising target of £165,000 to launch the SafeCall helpline while also raising awareness of those still missing this Christmas.
With thanks to the incredible generosity of our readers in 2025 ❤️
With thanks to the incredible generosity of our readers in 2025 ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Proud to announce @the-independent.com and @missingpeopleuk.bsky.social have hit our fundraising target of £165,000 to launch the SafeCall helpline while also raising awareness of those still missing this Christmas.
With thanks to the incredible generosity of our readers in 2025 ❤️
With thanks to the incredible generosity of our readers in 2025 ❤️
16th annual
Christmas Day run complete, so now time to sit down and do very little. Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas Day run complete, so now time to sit down and do very little. Merry Christmas everyone
December 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
16th annual
Christmas Day run complete, so now time to sit down and do very little. Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas Day run complete, so now time to sit down and do very little. Merry Christmas everyone
Genuinely baffled at how these adverts got signed off. Who is it meant to appeal to? What message is it intended to send about the product? Why do the people responsible still have jobs?
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Genuinely baffled at how these adverts got signed off. Who is it meant to appeal to? What message is it intended to send about the product? Why do the people responsible still have jobs?
Thursday night outrage in the lobby as No10 says it will cancel the daily afternoon press briefing and replace it with "occasional" press conferences open to, among others, "content creators".
(Yes, we're finishing term with the most insidery of insidery stories)
(Yes, we're finishing term with the most insidery of insidery stories)
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thursday night outrage in the lobby as No10 says it will cancel the daily afternoon press briefing and replace it with "occasional" press conferences open to, among others, "content creators".
(Yes, we're finishing term with the most insidery of insidery stories)
(Yes, we're finishing term with the most insidery of insidery stories)
Today in government bodies I had no idea existed - the King Scallop Implementation Group.
When was Keir Starmer going to tell us of his plan to replace the King with a shellfish?
When was Keir Starmer going to tell us of his plan to replace the King with a shellfish?
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today in government bodies I had no idea existed - the King Scallop Implementation Group.
When was Keir Starmer going to tell us of his plan to replace the King with a shellfish?
When was Keir Starmer going to tell us of his plan to replace the King with a shellfish?
Kemi’s been flying drones in Farnham to plug her £50bn sovereign defence fund plan.
She also told me that we don’t need national service, but young people won’t fight for Britain if all the country offers them is youth unemployment.
She also told me that we don’t need national service, but young people won’t fight for Britain if all the country offers them is youth unemployment.
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kemi’s been flying drones in Farnham to plug her £50bn sovereign defence fund plan.
She also told me that we don’t need national service, but young people won’t fight for Britain if all the country offers them is youth unemployment.
She also told me that we don’t need national service, but young people won’t fight for Britain if all the country offers them is youth unemployment.
My kingdom for a PMQs question that doesn't involve a tenuous Christmas "joke".
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My kingdom for a PMQs question that doesn't involve a tenuous Christmas "joke".
I remember when £9k fees came in and it made a huge difference to students’ socialising patterns. Can only imagine it’s got worse for the pandemic generation - though not sure it gets better once they’ve worked their way through the system
‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows
‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows
Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I remember when £9k fees came in and it made a huge difference to students’ socialising patterns. Can only imagine it’s got worse for the pandemic generation - though not sure it gets better once they’ve worked their way through the system
Father Christmas watches over tonight’s Green Party presser welcoming 5 defecting Labour councillors in Brent. I’ll say this, it’s a marked contrast from the Reform pressers I’ve been to.
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Father Christmas watches over tonight’s Green Party presser welcoming 5 defecting Labour councillors in Brent. I’ll say this, it’s a marked contrast from the Reform pressers I’ve been to.
I have somehow ended up on a routemaster.
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I have somehow ended up on a routemaster.
Every day we stray further from God’s light
December 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every day we stray further from God’s light
Preparing Friday night dinner (no, I didn’t buy an unnecessarily large quantity of pork shoulder because I panicked at the butcher’s, don’t be silly)
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Preparing Friday night dinner (no, I didn’t buy an unnecessarily large quantity of pork shoulder because I panicked at the butcher’s, don’t be silly)
The singing is really not helping my mood as I try to write about this, if anyone wants an indication of how not in the Christmas spirit I am at this stage.
Listening to a choir outside Parliament singing 'Let It Go' while reading Richard Hughes' resignation letter from the OBR is incredibly surreal.
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The singing is really not helping my mood as I try to write about this, if anyone wants an indication of how not in the Christmas spirit I am at this stage.
My main comment on today is: Let he who has never accidentally broken an embargo cast the first stone
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My main comment on today is: Let he who has never accidentally broken an embargo cast the first stone
I’m not sure I find this at all surprising - the report didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know, and involves people who have largely left the national stage. Not sure this would have got many more days of coverage in the past either.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m not sure I find this at all surprising - the report didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know, and involves people who have largely left the national stage. Not sure this would have got many more days of coverage in the past either.
Well at least I was wrong to be worried about this specific thing
Long experience watching England, however, means I am now slightly concerned that the day ending there means we're now going to spend hours failing to get Doggett and Lyon out while they pile on runs.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Well at least I was wrong to be worried about this specific thing