James Kettle

Don’t worry, Katie Lam MP will write another musical.

Then again, we might not. It’s purely hypothetical.

If we were starting this week, we might say something like “Robert Jenrick complained that he walked through Handsworth, and didn’t see a single person who failed to recognise him as a three day old turd that had somehow acquired the gift of speech.”

Oh wow. Sorry!

Be like Eulalia (I am not Eulalia)

I'll sign up as soon as it's in my feed. Just what the doctor ordered

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The big revelation for me this morning has been quite how many Railway Children musicals there are.

I mean tbf the way the business is going, the only way to be a writer soon will be as a side hustle to your Goldman Sachs gig on the way to being an MP, so i guess she’s just ahead of the game.

I wonder if she sees any connection between how hard it is to stage a musical and arts investment over the last 15 years.

I may sound snobby but the bar for being described as an accomplished scriptwriter seems to have been abruptly lowered by the Guardian for their profile.

“She wrote the railway children musical!” “No not that one” “oh was it this one?” “No” “was it this one that was done by an amateur company for a week in Guildford” 👍

Unusually easy as I have just been listening to records upstairs while wife & daughter watch Strictly

It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and Eve, and another Eve and I guess another Eve (so there’s a majority)

Next they’ll be making us have a female DCI Jane Tennison

You were lucky to grow up where there were two local clubs with proud histories. Yours and Tranmere

There are few more cherished beliefs in the north than the idea that people in other parts of the country do not identify with their own local football club

Much quieter in this photo than it was the day of the British Grand Prix

The blackadder the third rule applies to the PLP, in that a lot of people won’t be in favour of Andy because they’ve met him

I thought this was your response to
“Tory coded things I like”

Everything about him is performative, it’s just that the nature of the performance varies. Never at any point in his career has he had anything of substance to say beyond grandstanding and vibes. He’s a snake oil salesman who bewilderingly never seems short of rubes.

Great parlour game. I offer Ruth Davidson, Boris now, and Wes

Come on Stephen, Powell has been an consistent unyielding independent-minded critic of the centre for several days now.

Police and Crime Commissioners and elected mayors - Erskine May - UK Parliament Information on the 'Police and Crime Commissioners and elected mayors' section of Erskine May.

Presumably there would need to be a mayoral by election if he wants to go to the Commons before 2028? Or could the Govt simply change the law?
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I don’t think people had noticed they’d moved rightwards till the Rose Garden really.

It’s awfully kind of you Hildegard, but no.

This is to do with mandatory reselection being defeated in 2018 I think?

This Jimmy Kimmel thing is awful. It would be like if the BBC got rid of the Mash Report and Frankie Boyle’s show just because Robbie Gibb doesn’t like them.

V much enjoy the words “sole intent” as if the actual making of an episode of Xena was an unlooked for side effect

Hot ironmongery has never been bigger business, claims blacksmith to bailiffs