Tom Baldwin
@tombaldwin66.bsky.social
Journalist, once a senior Labour Party adviser, and author of the best-selling biography of Keir Starmer, now out in paperback with a new chapter on the election and first weeks in power.
I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would think briefing this sort of thing will help KeirStarmer, the government or even themselves. Some people can’t resist, I guess, but it all a bit nuts.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would think briefing this sort of thing will help KeirStarmer, the government or even themselves. Some people can’t resist, I guess, but it all a bit nuts.
Attacking Farage for the damage he has already done through Brexit - is one way - perhaps - Starmer can win back some of the votes Labour is losing to progressive parties. This is what I wrote for
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
this week.
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
this week.
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Attacking Farage for the damage he has already done through Brexit - is one way - perhaps - Starmer can win back some of the votes Labour is losing to progressive parties. This is what I wrote for
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
this week.
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
this week.
Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.
September 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.
Not a word of this, in the Sunday Times, turned out to be true.
September 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not a word of this, in the Sunday Times, turned out to be true.
Angela Rayner’s mistake on tax pales in comparison to the law-breaking and sleaze of the last government. But this, from my updated biography of Keir Starmer, shows he was always determined to show that not all PMs are the same.
September 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Angela Rayner’s mistake on tax pales in comparison to the law-breaking and sleaze of the last government. But this, from my updated biography of Keir Starmer, shows he was always determined to show that not all PMs are the same.
Glad to see Keir Starmer defending the UK’s - and his - longstanding commitment to human dignity in the face of fashionable right wing extremism and the panicked knee jerkery of some “senior Labour figures” who really should know better.
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Glad to see Keir Starmer defending the UK’s - and his - longstanding commitment to human dignity in the face of fashionable right wing extremism and the panicked knee jerkery of some “senior Labour figures” who really should know better.
This is an important point from @anandmenon.bsky.social, neither stated nor heard often enough.
August 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is an important point from @anandmenon.bsky.social, neither stated nor heard often enough.
Farage is making more silly mistakes. The rule of law matters to a lot of people.
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Farage is making more silly mistakes. The rule of law matters to a lot of people.
Hot of the presses, the new paperback version of my biography of Keir Starmer with new chapters on a difficult first year. You can get it here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0008...
July 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hot of the presses, the new paperback version of my biography of Keir Starmer with new chapters on a difficult first year. You can get it here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0008...
As Lord Frost - one of Britain’s top Brexit bores- becomes tumescent in the Telegraph about spending months alone with some EU-UK legal texts, a lot of normal voters will just be happy we have a pragmatic government that has undone some of the damage his sort have done to our country.
May 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
As Lord Frost - one of Britain’s top Brexit bores- becomes tumescent in the Telegraph about spending months alone with some EU-UK legal texts, a lot of normal voters will just be happy we have a pragmatic government that has undone some of the damage his sort have done to our country.
A perfect example of how everything the government does is now seen through the Faragiste prism. Does it even occur to the media that a Labour government might just want to help hard-pressed communities without it being a “desperate effort” to wrest back voters from Reform etc etc?
May 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A perfect example of how everything the government does is now seen through the Faragiste prism. Does it even occur to the media that a Labour government might just want to help hard-pressed communities without it being a “desperate effort” to wrest back voters from Reform etc etc?
There’s nothing particularly wrong with this BBC piece by Laura Kuenssberg except that it plays into a stale & misleading media narrative that everything the government does is about “winning back” votes from Reform & Nigel Farage (Labour is shedding far more votes elsewhere).
May 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There’s nothing particularly wrong with this BBC piece by Laura Kuenssberg except that it plays into a stale & misleading media narrative that everything the government does is about “winning back” votes from Reform & Nigel Farage (Labour is shedding far more votes elsewhere).
Oh and now look at this which has just popped up in the Financial Times.
May 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Oh and now look at this which has just popped up in the Financial Times.
Perhaps someone should tell all those “blue Labour” gurus popping up in the media these days that leading a “revolt against change” is not what this government was elected to do.
May 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Perhaps someone should tell all those “blue Labour” gurus popping up in the media these days that leading a “revolt against change” is not what this government was elected to do.
An important insight via @luketryl.bsky.social via Lara Spirit in today’s Times.
April 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An important insight via @luketryl.bsky.social via Lara Spirit in today’s Times.
Cool-headed speech by Keir Starmer despite the triple distraction of production lines rolling, hazard lights flashing, and markets crashing on the same screen…
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Cool-headed speech by Keir Starmer despite the triple distraction of production lines rolling, hazard lights flashing, and markets crashing on the same screen…
This is what I wrote in The Times on Friday. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
March 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is what I wrote in The Times on Friday. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Just arrived in Australia for Adelaide Writers’ Week and looking forward to taking part in this show on Monday.
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just arrived in Australia for Adelaide Writers’ Week and looking forward to taking part in this show on Monday.
The idiocy of this sort of coverage should now be apparent to all. It wasn’t just the Express, a lot of normally sane journalists have attacked the PM for spending too much time building alliances with other countries.
February 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The idiocy of this sort of coverage should now be apparent to all. It wasn’t just the Express, a lot of normally sane journalists have attacked the PM for spending too much time building alliances with other countries.
Who’d have thought that “obeying the law” would one day be seen as a weird and wokey thing to do?
February 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Who’d have thought that “obeying the law” would one day be seen as a weird and wokey thing to do?
In The Observer, @robfordmancs.bsky.social makes an important point that is not heard often enough in the current political debate.
February 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
In The Observer, @robfordmancs.bsky.social makes an important point that is not heard often enough in the current political debate.
Peter Mandelson vowing to “stay below the radar” in, er, an exclusive 4,000 word FT interview with the ever-excellent George Parker.
February 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Peter Mandelson vowing to “stay below the radar” in, er, an exclusive 4,000 word FT interview with the ever-excellent George Parker.
Not sure the Tories will get very far by seizing on a “revelation” on Starmer meeting a voice coach during lockdown to prepare for a big speech. They’re merely reminding us all that he was working while Boris Johnson’s team were having cheese and wine parties, then smearing their vomit up the walls.
February 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Not sure the Tories will get very far by seizing on a “revelation” on Starmer meeting a voice coach during lockdown to prepare for a big speech. They’re merely reminding us all that he was working while Boris Johnson’s team were having cheese and wine parties, then smearing their vomit up the walls.
Something musk have gone wrong with the algorithm.
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Something musk have gone wrong with the algorithm.
From the ever excellent Financial Times.
January 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
From the ever excellent Financial Times.