Josh Glancy

🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics

www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...

I think that specific confluence of factors has made the British public particularly furious and fed up and impatient with its political class and leadership.

I'm sure quality of politicians is a factor too, thought that may also be true elsewhere I don't know.

Well you always know best!

I mean obviously there's no monocause. But if you take Campbell's point and add in the specifics of our media environment, our exposure to GFE + austerity + Brexit + particularly high inflation + various migration issues, I think it helps explain why most PMs flopping fast.

There is a lot to be said for this letter in today's Times

Jonathan, feel free to insult my journalism as you have several times before. But please don't undermine the livelihoods of the many people who work at my newspaper by posting free links.

Richard Hermer vs David Wolfson

Born 1968, silk 2009, attorneys general 2024.

Yet the differences between them tells the story of the crossroads Anglo-Jewry has reached

My @jewishnews.bsky.social column

thttps://www.jewishnews.co.uk/hermer-and-wolfson-the-fault-line-running-through-anglo-jewry/

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

Theodor Meron survived the Holocaust, found refuge in Israel, helped set up the ICC, then aged 93 indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. He stands by his decision.

It was fascinating to interview him

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Suitably tentative by @joshglancy.bsky.social on whether Wes Streeting is all comms and no substance 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Such an interesting insight from @joshglancy.bsky.social that I hope others pick up. It’s great that Trump has caught up with us on Farage but what does he consider to be ‘real’? Is there a snake oil that works?

Has the Trump-Farage bromance cooled?

One very well-placed source tells me that the president has "lost faith" with his former pal

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The world’s rules have changed — Starmer must spell out Britain’s plan All this Trump whispering and swallowed pride will count for little unless the PM can explain the sacrifices that lie ahead

SCOOP

Keir Starmer has been invited to join the Gaza board of peace by the Trump administration.

Former PM Tony Blair's candidacy for the board, which will in theory administer the strip's transition to a post-Hamas future, was dropped last year.

times-comment.com/starmer-trump

Did Nigel Farage’s girlfriend really buy their home on her own? Laure Ferrari, the Reform leader’s French partner, has her name on the deed for the cash purchase in Essex. But in 2017 she could barely ‘make ends meet’

Can I point you to the extensive original reporting on this issue of the Clacton house in The Sunday Times?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Ok. Well I am telling you it was ironic. I think most of our readers, particularly those familiar with my writing, will have realised that. I'm sorry it didn't register for you, but perhaps your distrust of the paper coloured your perspective somewhat.

Why is it dubious?

Could I point you to where I use the phrase "schoolboy racism"

It's ironic. I'd point you to my writing about Starmer and Labour as context.

'Left wing tyranny' is an ironical use of language a Reformer might use, not something I think. I'd point you to my writing about Starmer as context.

Yes, it's been uneasy, due to allegations of schoolboy racism and the Nathan Gill case, both of which I mention.

Don't quite follow your criticism here?

There’s a reason Britain’s in the doldrums — but we don’t talk about it From schools to courts to the economy, the impacts of the pandemic are everywhere, and yet barely mentioned. Painful as it is, we must confront them

With almost every dominant issue of today — from welfare spending to court backlogs, NHS waiting lists, school absenteeism and the national debt — the pandemic’s aftershocks are at or near the heart of the matter.
(£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
By @joshglancy.bsky.social

Interesting, why do you think that? Structurally is more 2022

How Rachel Reeves’s grand vision became a battle for survival The chancellor took over at the Treasury promising to turn Britain around — after 16 months of missteps and misfortune she doesn’t look so clever

- Two child benefit cap to be abolished after all

- Deep frustrations from team Reeves about Gordon Brown's unhelpful interventions on the issue

- Lots of blame for the chaotic budget process being levelled at Torsten Bell

My @thetimes.com pre-budget read

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Thanks James, appreciate that

Not for a bit, I'd imagine

It's a 1300 word news interview in which I did my best to describe her biography and world view.

Within the article, there is a significant focus on immigration and its attendant issues such as the ECHR, because yes I do think that is important.

It's a 1300 word, one hour interview in which I did my best to describe her biography and world view. Yes we discussed Brexit, but there simply wasn't room to go into a lot of detail on every angle. I think people learned something from it.

And the immigration stuff was just one smallish chunk of a wide ranging discussion, though it has obviously blown up massively since.

I'd have liked to go into more detail, both with her and in the piece. There was more material on culture, but I didn't have space for it.

Easy to call people negligent, but as you note the article shared her position with the world, plenty have pushed her for further detail since.

Go on I'll bite. Why was I negligent?

Mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain was official Tory party policy - until Katie Lam spelled it out to me in a newspaper interview.

And now it ... isn't