Associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff. Tongue usually in cheek. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
One reason the Conservatives should have a swift leadership contest is that until they get a new leader, they will be represented by people more interested in litigating their dishonest and disastrous election campaign: www.ft.com/content/ab7a...
The latest from Rishi Sunak's Facebook - a poster, with a sceengrab of a tweet, that inexplicably includes the not-wholly-positive and hard to parse reply from Jeremy Clarkson?
It's always interesting when politicians break out of the relatively narrow 'boilerplate things you have to say about race and racism to be successful internally' zone and what makes them do it. Suella Braverman in the Telegraph today: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07...
Boris Johnson did a rally with Rishi Sunak. To give you an idea of the image quality, here's what the friendly press has gone with. Man looks like it's A Weekend at Bernie's style deal.
When I agreed to speak at Glastonbury this year, I failed to consider how much of a cash sink it would be for me, a man who cannot walk past multicoloured clothing without buying some.
Seven hours after posting 'Don't surrender' on Facebook, a new video on Rishi Sunak's account: the first bit of communication nominally from him to explicitly mention the possibility of a Labour landslide.
Rishi Sunak's Facebook. Occasionally you see something and you go 'I hope you kept the receipt for the focus group that came out of', and the weird use of 'surrender' as a synonym for 'freely vote for' is one of them.
Rishi Sunak's Facebook. Occasionally you see something and you go 'I hope you kept the receipt for the focus group that came out of', and the weird use of 'surrender' as a synonym for 'freely vote for' is one of them.
Rishi Sunak's Facebook. Occasionally you see something and you go 'I hope you kept the receipt for the focus group that came out of', and the weird use of 'surrender' as a synonym for 'freely vote for' is one of them.
It’s the only thing where Sunak has successfully advanced his form of politics, unfortunately. Stuff that his government is nominally committed to, that was central to the manifesto they fought in 2019, being written up in the Times as if it is a new, alien idea.
And now again against David Tennant. Let us assume for a moment that someone thinks she is right and he wrong - again, is it really *worse* because she’s the Only Black Woman? Do most British voters respond well to this? I don’t think so!
“Sources close” to Badenoch said this to the Times about her Reform opponent, who in 2010 said people should vote for the BNP, described Soros, Juncker, Clinton as “globalist controllers”, other things: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
A strange thing about having a fine motor condition in the 21st century is that once you are an adult, you can go years forgetting you have one until you get back an online signature of yours. (I must admit, I rather like this one: shame I will never be able to replicate it.)
The professional negligence election continues to deliver, with the latest salvo being “crowdfunding enough to hire an extra organiser for Jeremy Corbyn to instead commission a (notoriously unreliable!) constituency poll that then shows Jeremy Corbyn losing”.
