Sean Kemp

Seeing the original Naked Gun as a sullen teenager with my father and both of us ending up helpless with laughter will always be one of my favourite memories.

What would Roger Scruton make of Bonnie Blue's increasingly dramatic attempts to achieve sexual stardom? Read more on the decline of desire at UnHerd.

scientists have been working for years on formulating the text of a social media promo post that would be impossible to ever convert into a single click and they are finally ready to share their findings

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Anthony Seldon writing a piece of analysis that should never have been published? Colour me shocked!

Nigel Evans: It might be time to think the 'unthinkable' about our electoral system | Conservative Home I know all the arguments against PR because I have utilised them all on many occasions over the past 50 years. I don’t have the answer as to which system would be the best to use, but I sure know whic...

The next few years are going to be an enjoyable drumbeat of Conservatives discovering what it means when you're not one of the big two in a two-party system. Wait until they work out what being the third (or even fourth) party is like in Parliament! conservativehome.com/2025/07/15/n...

Strongly agree with this. No10 aside - where they get a lot of spads- we are still basically marooning inexperienced people in massive departments

Live Aid was shit, though. Sorry.

New Bluesky slogan just dropped.

Someone’s already done Heil Fidelity. Which I think may be unimprovable

Anthony Seldon weirdly just seems to regularly say things that imply he doesn’t know that much about the history of Prime Ministers or politics. Despite it having been his career

I’m not sure ‘leaking a document where I insult MPs’ is the move I’d make if my party’s MPs were trying to get me sacked

Life in Downing Street seems to be just an endless round of people going ‘What this policy/speech/ briefing by the Government. I had literally no idea!’

The fact of a change in itself is seen as indicative of a likelier change in stance, rather than a prediction of who the next CX could be. It all seems more terrifyingly vibes-based than, I or my mortgage, would like.

The other point obviously is that it’s just shitty behaviour

Weird thing about this is I don’t think as Badenoch’s spokesperson you really need to be encouraging the lobby on this one. Reckon they’ll be looking to follow up regardless

Bit harsh on Murray and Henman’s careers

fully aware that I can't just move to England then complain about people talking about Glastonbury but ohhhhhhhhhhh my god you people love nothing more than talking about Glastonbury do you, fucking hell

“The problem is that the PLP has too many unthinking soft left types,” I say, as I go to work in a Downing Street that loves to ladle social policy obligations on business, with a near-zero interest in tax reform, and whose rail policy is “nationalisation will fix it”.

This run of interviews from Keir Starmer is just… weird? Basically amounts to saying he takes full responsibility for things he then doesn’t take responsibility for in the next sentence. Denies lacking a vision while repeatedly not offering a vision

This is basically my view as well. I can’t see a world in which they seriously think it’s better to risk losing

You have to admire the commitment to creating new material for Would I Lie To You?

I don’t know. They have the chance to basically say that the Government has lost the ability to govern and that’s easier to do if it’s voted down.

Pah. I once went on a date where we saw Boxing Helena

The Great Britain I love is dying. We have one last chance to save it Our country is not the same as the one I grew up in. But all hope is not yet extinguished if we act now

The biggest indicator of our national decline is that 30 years ago copy like this would have been wearily chucked in the bin by the editor of the letters page www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d763c5d...

I like it. There’s people I enjoy seeing stuff from, and a much smaller chance of bumping into the worst people in the world. I tried exposing myself to the world’s marketplace of ideas and it was full of arseholes, give me a bubble.

(Ironically enough I suppose that is a bit of a po-faced observation in itself)

I don’t know if BlueSky is dying or not, and the accusation it’s a bit po-face at times feels true. But the whole ‘it’s a useful isolation zone for liberals’ argument is massively irritating from people who apparently don’t want the same exclusion area for actual racists

And I can exclusively reveal for anyone interested in him (and his diaries were published 20 years ago, so someone out there must be) that he doesn’t appear to be a big fan of the Irish

He has kindly added a mini review at the start

Slightly random mini thread , and I doubt anyone will care but I bought a second hand biography of Samuel Beckett the other day which I think was previously owned by the historian AL Rowse en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._R...