Stephen Smith

Productivity increasing? What an ancient, historic concept!

Davros was a more sympathetic character

Some parents are struggling to afford private school and their avocado on toast. These are the people who desperately need support from the state

Matt G with added economic creds?

BBC News website is simultaneously their biggest global impact and the bit that’s furthest away from the editorial standards they say they have

It would be very this government to have two mutually contradictory policies and be wholly unaware of how that might look, or how they’d undermine each other

It wasn’t that many years ago we boycotted companies that sold baby formula in some countries; now we’re told it’s a right and no one should pay. Was there about a week when paying for it was ok?

I hope Times subscribers feel they’re getting Value for Money with this stellar ‘journalism’

Would be an answer if the question was ‘have a go at making one of the others less bad’

Libdem spy school was busy

As a country we will never achieve anything, but at least we’ll never publish the documents saying we haven’t achieved anything early

Wasn’t it the Lumo that was the root of the issue, not whether your MAN>EUS stops at 1 or 2 places

Presentation at the chirpier end of 5Live, whilst selling itself as the heavier end of R4

I’m sort of surprised they’ve let Gullis in. It’s not that anyone has heard of him, but he reminds people they’re a bit like the Tories, without bringing any real kudos with him

It’s the TfGM press release with some word changes to make it inaccurate

Even on its own terms, it’s not sure if the line is disused or under-used

These people who don’t know the traditions of the country they live in

I wonder who has been his chief political adviser these last few years, whose advice may have led to a shortage of that authority?

They’re making strategic decisions?

‘Chase’? Was he named after the character in Paw Patrol?

To complete your analogy, my mortgage is £1000 and I don’t have savings

It’s the ‘please make things better’ combined with ‘don’t you dare change anything whilst making things better’

She’s defined working class as anyone who needs to work to pay the mortgage and buy food which would be about 98% of us

Is that 2 of the platform so captivated by the speech they’re on their phone?

A while since I listened, but this was/is the format of Steve Richard’s rock’n’roll politics

Mr O’Brien clearly acknowledges that 2010-24 was a disaster, wishes to forget it, has successfully forgotten it, and hopes everyone else will have the same targeted amnesia

The whole ‘aren’t we nerdy’ schtik for Newscast, a lightly delivered and anything but detailed news programme, consistently grates

That’s the closest we get, isn’t it, to a regular, broadcast, long form interview now? And expressly says it’s not a newsy interrogation. Need On The Record, or the new cheap Newsnight to be regularly a single interviewee on their policy

In the early days of Teams/WFH, during a call with a client, I sent a carefully worded but acerbic comment to a colleague. He replied with a wholly uncarefully worded reply, in the call chat. And spent months apologising to said client

A media strategy that led to vacillation being the headline, rather than any of the retail measures, seems to have been sub optimal. The freezing of rail fares seems unlikely to be welcomed by voters, as ‘a bad thing not happening’ is not the same as a good thing