The public’s expectation for what government can and should provide them, long ago outstripped any government’s ability to provide it within taxation and for too long we’ve all pretended that’s not a thing.
If it is consistent, it is accepted as authentic, and that’s no mean currency now. You might then overcome a political truism that might not be actually be true: ‘that the voters can’t handle the truth and if you actually told them they’d vote for someone else.’
Reform’s biggest problem is that all political parties are either ‘policy parties’, focused on what they want to do with power, or ‘campaign parties’, focused on winning it. Reform UK is, unsurprisingly, a campaign party.
The full half hour of the Conservative leadership candidate’s detailed interview with the veteran broadcaster.
She shares with him the ability to throw opponents off balance – and a commitment to levelling up.
With Neil gone and other veteran journalists reportedly unhappy, ‘Britain’s news channel’ looks less and less like a news channel.
Plus: my interview with Richard Tice. Can he keep the Conservative Party honest?
The latest entrant in the British media landscape has got off to a very rocky start. Can the UK’s news-light news channel find its feet?
A brief apology doesn’t justify him remaining in post. It’s now up to him to do so live. This is one for Andrew Neil, assuming he’s available.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
The channel has done well to recruit voices from the podcast market and other unorthodox media channels.
The new channel’s critics don’t understand the difference between impartiality, which is required, and bias, which is not.
Plus: Piers Morgan wasn’t ‘cancelled’. And: We need a conversation on women’s safety.
Dacre has said that he “would die in a ditch defending it as a great civilising force”, and Moore grasps the Corporation’s original Reithian mission.
I was very much the junior partner in the team that launched 18 Doughty Street in 2006. Here’s what we tried to do, and this new enterprise should do.