Don’t give them ideas about flags.

If you haven’t read this, I highly recommend. Really good explanation of how networked it all is.

This is why simply replacing Reeves Starmer with Streeting/McFadden is a pointless exercise. It will necessarily have to be a full reset.

When has it not been in the last 11 years?

100%. He’s admirably self-aware.

This is why I don’t think he makes it to May - lots are abruptly waking up to the fact that he is himself the problem (whether that is fair or not).

This is why I think Burnham shouldn’t be discounted (high obstacles notwithstanding). He’s the only one who could mark a legitimate break with the current administration, is notably popular, and has the foundations for an alternative theory of government.

The debate around US interference will doubtless be a key part of the Labour leadership race.

If a country could have clinical depression, it’s politics and media would look a like Britain’s.

For example, is the issue execs at Meta not paying enough tax on expensive property, or is it that Meta have an outsize effect on mental health and should bear some of the costs of dealing with that?

I think a wealth tax and corporations paying a fairer share of the money they make and the costs they bring to society are often conflated. Grappling with the latter is harder, but has a greater reward. Reeves/Starmer won’t be the ones that do it though.

Headline in 2027: EV levy produces only 20% of expected revenue as collection regime slammed as ‘ineffective and easily avoided’

He’s been doing this for 20 years.

Last throw of the dice messaging/rationale. These people do not have four years in them.

I dunno - a PM with a personal approval rating of -52 and 3.5 years left of a parliament, and a CX whose raison d’etre is that the bond markets wont accept any other person in the job probably tests that thesis to destruction.

Lol - same.