Under Super Nanny Starmer, the Labour government never tires of lecturing us on how concerned it is about ‘child abuse’. Only last month, the Prime Minister decreed: “I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children, and that is why this ban must happen, and that is why this ban […]
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Now Keir’s end is near and so he faces his final curtain. Regrets he has a few (MANDELSON), but of this much we can be certain. He did it his way. It is, I think, unlikely that politicians of future times will see the Starmer ministry as a blueprint; more likely a cautionary tale. Even
My Substack’s tagline may read ‘Like politics, but more fun’, and I cover political stuff most of the time, but the thing is I don’t really like politics and I don’t like most politicians. During the recent big political happenings in Britain – Keir Starmer resigning and Andy Burnham winning the Makerfield by-election on the
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I’ve often thought the Labour Party’s approach to ministerial appointments was an insider game of Truth or Dare, where the PM of the day challenges the public to notice the sheer insanity of its increasingly ludicrous reshuffles. Jess Phillips as Safeguarding Minister was a pretty good effort: the woman who once said she “didn’t give
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From time to time I dip my toe in the icy waters of mainstream political commentary, and invariably find variations on a puzzled theme: “Why are they allowing this?”, “Why can’t they stop the small boats?”, “Why does Britain feel so miserable?”. After the murder of Henry Nowak, the attempted beheading in Belfast, and the
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With Sir Keir Starmer finally dispatched from Downing Street, you can almost hear the machinery of legacy management grinding into action. Allies and former colleagues speak of a profoundly decent man, overwhelmed by events – at least, until Andy Burnham shows up for a selfie. David Lammy, ever the clown, has called Starmer’s legacy “immense”.
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You could probably tell me about the first time you had sex (although I would prefer you didn’t). You probably couldn’t tell me about the seventh. That’s not to say you didn’t enjoy it. It may, indeed, have been better – practice, as they say, makes perfect. But if familiarity does not, in this particular case, breed contempt, it does breed forgetfulness. The first time
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After Labour’s General Election victory in the summer of 2024, Andrew Marr glibly celebrated the result as a sign of stability and prosperity. ‘For the first time in many of our lives,’ he said, ‘…Britain looks like a little haven of peace and stability.’ As I listened to the fawning response of many leftwing and
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Sir Keir Starmer has resigned. Yes, it finally happened. The Downing Street lectern claims another victim (the seventh in a decade), and Britain waves goodbye to the most unpopular Prime Minister in her history, leaving the Pillsbury Dullboy more time to spend with his family. In many ways, Starmer ended his tenure in the spirit
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Unlike the sixties, being able to remember the nineties is not a reliable sign you weren’t there. It is not that there were no drugs around, but with the noticeable exception of the rave scene, that generation didn’t decide to base their entire culture on them. Which may explain why we produced Take That and
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