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I like how even Chris Mason can’t quite bring himself to say Suella Braverman is a “big beast” without qualifying it with “of recent Tory history”.
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 AM
I like how even Chris Mason can’t quite bring himself to say Suella Braverman is a “big beast” without qualifying it with “of recent Tory history”.
Looking forward to reading how Braverman’s defection is a great coup and will impress the public about how Reform are serious about governing etc etc.
January 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Looking forward to reading how Braverman’s defection is a great coup and will impress the public about how Reform are serious about governing etc etc.
What’s the safest and quickest way to get banned from Twitter? I want to close my account but I can’t because I can’t access the account setting (long story).
January 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM
What’s the safest and quickest way to get banned from Twitter? I want to close my account but I can’t because I can’t access the account setting (long story).
Political journalists seem under the highly mistaken impression Nadhim Zahawi is some kind of popular folk hero.
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Political journalists seem under the highly mistaken impression Nadhim Zahawi is some kind of popular folk hero.
I’m somewhat shocked by this. A lifetime of reading memoirs of politicians of the era and yet I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this person www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Labour MP and defence minister Sir Patrick Duffy dies aged 105
Duffy, believed to be UK’s longest-living former MP, survived a plane crash in Orkney Islands during second world war
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I’m somewhat shocked by this. A lifetime of reading memoirs of politicians of the era and yet I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this person www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Quiz question - what links The Inbetweeners and The BRICS
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Quiz question - what links The Inbetweeners and The BRICS
It’s amazing the bbc likes to do that “oh it’s so nerdish” about simple political events but then runs an incomprehensible story as it’s lead for 12 hours now. “Allies of the PM are making it clear he would fight any leadership challenge”
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It’s amazing the bbc likes to do that “oh it’s so nerdish” about simple political events but then runs an incomprehensible story as it’s lead for 12 hours now. “Allies of the PM are making it clear he would fight any leadership challenge”
So excited. A new Alan Allport book arrived in the post on release day & I had forgotten I’d even ordered it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So excited. A new Alan Allport book arrived in the post on release day & I had forgotten I’d even ordered it.
Tory politicians have it so easy. It’s been only 18 months since Jeremy Hunt wowed commentators with his plans to scrap NI. Almost identikit reaction to yesterday’s Badenoch plan to scrap stamp duty.
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Tory politicians have it so easy. It’s been only 18 months since Jeremy Hunt wowed commentators with his plans to scrap NI. Almost identikit reaction to yesterday’s Badenoch plan to scrap stamp duty.
Faulding’s gone. We’ll never forget where we were when we heard that news.
on.ft.com/4mtJju0 Senior Labour fixer to stand down in latest departure from Starmer’s team
on.ft.com/4mtJju0 Senior Labour fixer to stand down in latest departure from Starmer’s team
on.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Faulding’s gone. We’ll never forget where we were when we heard that news.
on.ft.com/4mtJju0 Senior Labour fixer to stand down in latest departure from Starmer’s team
on.ft.com/4mtJju0 Senior Labour fixer to stand down in latest departure from Starmer’s team
Have to conclude Starmer is in big trouble. We wearily now cross off “hiring skills” from the list of his competencies.
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Have to conclude Starmer is in big trouble. We wearily now cross off “hiring skills” from the list of his competencies.
This sort of thing isover complicated. The simple point about Farage is he always makes things worse on his own terms. His overriding passion, Brexit, happened, Brexiters won every issue, and nearly 10 years on the country is widely held to be ‘in its worst state ever’.
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This sort of thing isover complicated. The simple point about Farage is he always makes things worse on his own terms. His overriding passion, Brexit, happened, Brexiters won every issue, and nearly 10 years on the country is widely held to be ‘in its worst state ever’.
Of all the lithium battery products I’ve bought, the cordless lawnmower is the least successful (& I bought a good one). Not as powerful as a petrol one and no more manoeuvrable (in fact less - very heavy) than those or even corded ones (unless massive garden I suppose).
June 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Of all the lithium battery products I’ve bought, the cordless lawnmower is the least successful (& I bought a good one). Not as powerful as a petrol one and no more manoeuvrable (in fact less - very heavy) than those or even corded ones (unless massive garden I suppose).
Cambridge has changed since I was last there
April 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Cambridge has changed since I was last there
I find the way the tariff debate presented odd. By far the most likely outcome of US tariffs and a rebalancing of trade will be more consumption outside the US and less inside it. This might help achieve US distributive or geopolitical aims but it’s not like the benefits are one way.
November 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM
I find the way the tariff debate presented odd. By far the most likely outcome of US tariffs and a rebalancing of trade will be more consumption outside the US and less inside it. This might help achieve US distributive or geopolitical aims but it’s not like the benefits are one way.
Pretty sure this is impossible
September 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Pretty sure this is impossible
I don’t know to what extent it’s Starmer, Reeves, or their advisors but feels like Labour’s first 100 or so days will go down in history as how not to do it.
September 13, 2024 at 8:13 AM
I don’t know to what extent it’s Starmer, Reeves, or their advisors but feels like Labour’s first 100 or so days will go down in history as how not to do it.
But he’s really good. All the political insiders said so.
"Dithering" seems unfair here.
It was a deliberate and cynical political strategy to store up problems for the next government. Both cruel and damaging for asylum seekers, and hugely expensive for taxpayers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
It was a deliberate and cynical political strategy to store up problems for the next government. Both cruel and damaging for asylum seekers, and hugely expensive for taxpayers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Cleverly accused of aggravating asylum backlog by ‘dithering’ on key decisions
Exclusive: Ministers under last home secretary refused to empower caseworkers to tackle crisis, say sources
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2024 at 7:41 AM
But he’s really good. All the political insiders said so.
This is of course possible (i think untrue) but a very poor way to present the data. Net additions best not expressed as %s, hard to grasp what the opposite negative is and could easily have 1,000 or 100,000%.
Trump says that "virtually 100% of the net job creation" in the past year has gone to migrants. Then he says, actually, it's substantially more than 100%.
August 16, 2024 at 7:50 AM
This is of course possible (i think untrue) but a very poor way to present the data. Net additions best not expressed as %s, hard to grasp what the opposite negative is and could easily have 1,000 or 100,000%.
“Laces into” is a phrase I’d never heard before today
August 9, 2024 at 5:36 AM
“Laces into” is a phrase I’d never heard before today