Plus: the useless Scottish media and the worst UK journalists. I name my first media onanist of the week. And it’s…
Plus: An outpouring of affection for Johnson. We reach Defcon Raab. The EU messes up (again). And: could Sleepy Joe wake up as President?
Plus: My video tour of my bookshelves and why I won’t indulge editors. Three times in the last few days I’ve said no to them.
Plus: Some of the measures which the Government is taking weren’t necessary even during the supreme national crisis of World War Two.
Plus: Cometh the hour, cometh the Hancock. And: Why Phillips doesn’t hate Muslims, Clinton could become U.S President and the Budget could all go wrong.
Let’s say that Patel did, on occasion, shout – or lose her temper. Should that really be deemed unacceptable?
Plus: Will Javid come back? Will Boris Island fly? Hazzer, formerly the Duke of Sussex. And: an ice bath in a Scandi forest.
Plus: Where was the Ministers yesterday making the case for the Government’s new immigration policy? And: my advice to Carlaw.
Chris Pincher, the new appointee, must stay in the post for the rest of this Parliament. It’s the only way that a strategy can be implemented properly.
Plus: A sofa, two dogs, no cup of tea – and my Brexit evening. And: the pre-eminence of Policy Exchange.
And the axeing of the Victoria Derbyshire Show suggests that the next Director General must be a transformational one.
Plus: Open regional Tory offices but don’t take CCHQ out of London. The coming IR35 disaster. And: where will you be on January 31?