David Beech

On or around I guess 🤷‍♂️

"Maybe I gave them the wrong day at the council office, though." OK, dad. OK.

Just had my annual 'are we celebrating it on the 6th or the 8th chat with my dad'. I was born on the 8th, the fact we celebrated on the 6th "by mistake" for the first 14 years of my life doesn't change that fact 🙄

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Well, I guess he'd know...

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Live to members of the socialist campaign group who were considering jumping ship to Your Party...

How long does this conference run for? We need a week. We deserve a week of this.

"Let me tell you about the time I killed a dog' was not on my bingo card for the Your Party conference, ngl

Which one?

Again, I would advise people to go read the media from 50 years ago. Sure, there was absolutely an awkward stiffness that the death of deference got rid of and I prefer it but they talked to you like adults in a way that very few newspapers do today.

I've lived in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and a few big towns in between but this is what I always come back home for.

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I would really like to see a joint Sultana / Corbyn leadership as feel like this could develop into a spectacular pairing that would surpass even my high expectations of what they are both capable of delivering.

I can dislike a politician and think they are arrogant and awful and whatever but can see why they are at least respected because they are good at the job. There's absolutely nothing there with Badenoch. It is blindingly obvious that she actually couldn't do the *actual job* of Prime Minister.

She actually reminds me a lot of Dominic Rabb - a man who was very confident in his own abilities, supremely arrogant and went on national TV to declare the sea was closed when he was on holiday during a crisis 🤷‍♂️

Speaking to female friends at the time the reason a lot were 'interested' in Badenoch was her take no prisoners, no I won't apologise for being supremely confident approach. Traits often admired in men, of course. The problem is - like many of those men - she can't back it up with actual ability

I'm not talking about that attacks on the budget. I'm talking about personal attacks like the Sun platforming her uncle on the front page for instance.

I don't listen to them, still have plenty of pins left to insert in my eyes.

The single biggest mistake of the modern media is allowing arseholes to wang on for 30 minutes to each other every day on podcasts saying increasingly contrarian and contradicting stuff just fill the *space* they need to fill, imv.

*without substance* but you all knew that already!

And I don't think it should be regarded as part of the job. I'd say the same when it comes to politicians of other parties, too. It's wrong. It's actually not a *decent* way to conduct our politics.

By the way, yes Badenoch's attack on her was also vicious. It failed because Badenoch is herself with substance but also the public don't like it. Mocking is one thing but outright nastiness? Nah, people don't like that.

I've been interested in politics long enough to know Chancellor's will always get stick from the media.Often unfairly and often harsh, but what's happening with Reeves is on a different level. It's vicious and it's because she's a woman. If they get her it'll be Bridget Phillipson next without doubt

Is she still entitled to wfa? I'm concerned she'll struggle to keep warm in the £2 million, 6 bed house she bought for 4k all those years ago

Very good piece, this. My view is the absolutist approach of some trans rights activists- if a 6 year old child says they are trans, they are - no shades of grey, over policing of language has lost a lot of public support that would naturally be there. Which actively works against trans people...

This is really good and especially on Blair and New Labour. Both him and Brown had ideas, knew what they wanted to achieve, who their voters were and what they wanted the government to deliver. My impression of Starmer is he does believe in stuff but that it's none of our or his cabinet's business

Beyond parody

Beth Rigby the other day repeatedly asking Starmer whether he will apologise for increasing taxes. Who does that serve? What did we lean? Nowt.

I know it's not nice to be personal but Mason is a lightweight, Laura K is too. Or if they aren't they are either hiding it well or delivering what their bosses want. Bland tv in search of a gotcha.

If you look back at the Beeb's political editors in Thatcher's days or compare Brian Walden's interviews to Laura K's now there's just no comparison in the depth and curiosity of the interviewers. We are literally left with a few tweets on a screen where the politician is asked to respond. Woeful.