Sir Keir spoke as though this were all somehow passive, something that only happened to him. Yet he could have asked at any point, particularly after press reports suggested Mandelson had failed vetting. The simpler explanation is that he did not want to know.
Incredibly, Labour’s ludicrously named Social Cohesion Action Plan is flirting with a blasphemy law with its imprecise ‘anti-Muslim hate’ clause.
As their pay rises above £100,000, MPs will feel the full absurdity of Britain’s hidden 60 per cent marginal rate. They may finally rediscover the case for growth.
The live video feed, paired with social media, has transformed the Commons into a personal broadcast studio. There is a lack of engagement and persuasion in the chamber than there is video harvesting.
As another premiership falters, it is worth thinking of why we end up in this situation so often, and the wider costs it brings. If tenures are shrinking, it is a sign not of constitutional weakness but of repeated political misjudgement.
What is striking is how selective our outrage has become. We obsess over language and “microaggressions”, while tolerating an industry that eroticises domination and humiliation.
Cabinet members in the US and Singapore can command far better pay elsewhere. But they are freed up to take on real responsibility. If the UK can’t offer similar paths to the country’s brightest, it condemns itself to mid-table mediocrity.
If there is an appeal which crosses religion and cultures it is caring for one’s children and wanting to see them better off and flourishing more than us. An appeal to that would break down barriers rather than building them up.
Rachel Reeves may have made an honest mistake, but that has not previously prevented her from calling for others’ resignations.
More power to Blue Collar Conservatism and their message that we want to help people thrive, not just survive, with good well-paid jobs in a land where aspiration is matched with opportunity and success is celebrated.
If politicians can’t be bothered to write a speech without using AI, they just shouldn’t make one.
The logic is sound. If you want, and I know Team Badenoch do, to persuade people you are changed, and new, and departing from the recent past, newbies in new roles is one way of putting that message in the front of the shop window.
Given the steady administrative emasculation of the Prime Minister, it’s arguably more fruitful to consider how the Whitehall machine is preparing for a reshuffle and what it’ll want to get from it.
It is churlish to judge British policymakers by such persnickety standards as whether their policies actually work.
Judith Jarvis Thomson was a titan in analytical philosophy supporting abortion, yet even she probably wouldn’t have supported this amendment.