What the Budget was really about www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

A bigger point made of the same theme by @ianleslie.bsky.social: Mamdani wins by being “cheerful and friendly” www.ian-leslie.com/p/how-to-pus...

Kemi Badenoch in snappy comeback shock. thecritic.co.uk/gall...

Simply go the the Springer site for the book, and enter discount code "BGE25", and you'll get 25% off the definitive guide to last year's general election - with many lessons for the current mess we are in. Here's the website:

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

A bigger point made of the same theme by @ianleslie.bsky.social: Mamdani wins by being “cheerful and friendly” www.ian-leslie.com/p/how-to-pus...

Involvement of party memberships in leader elections has been a disaster from the start. Probably the single biggest factor in our national decline over the last two decades

I mean, Labour ought to go back to MPs alone electing the leader, in which case it wouldn't matter, but until then...

It's usually low in TU elections and esp TU elections for Labour Party posts

But Labour really ought to publish the figures for members and affiliated supporters separately

I haven't read it, but the stuff in his The English and Their History is a mash-up of standard memes of left and right – sofa govt, constitutional vandalism, immigration, the lot

Apols to readers for the error in the quiz question. A full independent public inquiry has been launched