My point was that it is striking that there is almost zero outreach.
Watching news programmes over the last couple of days, I’m really struck by the fact that the US isn’t putting people up & isn’t briefing us. Probably isn’t briefing anyone?
BREAKING: Keir Starmer says the U.K. has given the US permission to use British bases to launch strikes on Iran
The centrist establishment is dying in British politics & may be dead already. Labour’s collapse happened in entirely predictable ways. In fact @rewearmouth.bsky.social & I warned Starmer would face this in our 2024 book, Landslide.
It’s happening in France, US, Germany. Gorton is just the start.
Polls were way out
🚨 Green Party wins Gorton & Denton byelection after tightly contested race, with Labour slipping to third in significant blow to Keir Starmer.
Green Party: 14,980
Reform UK: 10,578
Labour: 9,364
!
Well, there you go
Feels likely to dip soon. Where is the big idea?
Top British and German military chiefs press ‘moral’ case for rearmament
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Amazing. Well done
🔥🔥🔥Anas Sarwar: "The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street needs to change."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hammer...
Temperatures look bearable. Almost everywhere has air con in any case.
I fly to Brisbane tomorrow, and given it is summer in Australia (yes, you’re right, it does suck to be you!) I’ve just spent a shedload of cash on clothes
While we all get swept up in Westminster, take a moment to think how fortunate we are
This tells you that there’s really is no consensus in Labour about a way forward
I'd echo this. The mood in the last couple of hours has got *extremely* dark.
“Either MI6 and the UK’s intelligence agencies managed to miss everything that has now come to light, or else they found it and No 10 made the decision to ignore it. People will surely want answers on that front.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
the pitch is being rolled for a BBC/Channel 4 merger ahead of the next director general’s arrival
www.thetimes.com/article/6c44...
🚨BREAKING - Gordon Brown says he has asked the Cabinet Secretary "to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Mandelson
Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
Great exclusive. Alarming story.
‘UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
He’s lost control again etc
Maybe everyone is doing Dry Jan
Who’s gonna step on you?
Fools gold?
The boy with a thorn in his side?
Some might say?
I mean, don’t get me wrong I would roll my eyes, but is everyone just depressed or what?
Panic on the streets of London?
I am the resurrection?
Love will tear us apart?
So this is how it feels to be lonely?
So many missed opportunities by political journalists this week
It’s obviously important to report on it, but not sure it’s been proportionate
I find it pretty mental that we have spent the week talking about the NEC, given everything going on internationally
This is quite something
Iconic is an overused word
Rachel’s bow is iconic #traitors
