Having watched the Democrats masterfully shoot their own feet off with incredibly unpopular candidates vs Trump twice, John has decided that Labour should jump onto that rake for a third time in distinctly British style.

Large numbers of Lib Dem and Labour supporters are also prepared to vote Tory rather than Reform

Support for McSweeney/Starmer’s “Macron” strategy of forcing Lib Dems and Greens to choose between Farage and Starmer as PM www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Badenoch’s description of Reeves’s speech as “one long waffle bomb” was a barb worthy of Boris www.independent.co.uk/voices/waffl...

“Even my dreams of ashes turned to ashes.” Matthew Parris. Boy can write www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The joy of being a non-ministerial deputy leader is you can offer helpful advice like this

Is it all over for Calamity Lammy? Me for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/david...

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The joy of being a non-ministerial deputy leader is you can offer helpful advice like this

Is it all over for Calamity Lammy? Me for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/david...

“Even my dreams of ashes turned to ashes.” Matthew Parris. Boy can write www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The gentle sting of Andrew Gimson on Zack Polanski www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-z...

Badenoch’s description of Reeves’s speech as “one long waffle bomb” was a barb worthy of Boris www.independent.co.uk/voices/waffl...

Support for McSweeney/Starmer’s “Macron” strategy of forcing Lib Dems and Greens to choose between Farage and Starmer as PM www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“There’s plan A, which is that Andy becomes PM. There’s plan B, Andy doesn’t become PM but we have such significant influence in whatever emerges.” Rachael Maskell on Mainstream for Burnham via Left Foot Forward leftfootforward.org/2025/11/andy...

Janan Ganesh wins the intro of the day award *again* www.ft.com/content/f9c2...

“One long waffle bomb”: Did Badenoch’s barb rattle Reeves? www.independent.co.uk/voices/waffl...

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David Lammy’s first PMQs as deputy prime minister was nothing short of disastrous www.independent.co.uk/voices/david...

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David Lammy’s first PMQs as deputy prime minister was nothing short of disastrous www.independent.co.uk/voices/david...

“One long waffle bomb”: Did Badenoch’s barb rattle Reeves? www.independent.co.uk/voices/waffl...

Janan Ganesh wins the intro of the day award *again* www.ft.com/content/f9c2...

“…we’ve got to plot away for him to come back” is a lovely typo.

“There’s plan A, which is that Andy becomes PM. There’s plan B, Andy doesn’t become PM but we have such significant influence in whatever emerges.” Rachael Maskell on Mainstream for Burnham via Left Foot Forward leftfootforward.org/2025/11/andy...

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The phrase “working people” was always duff www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...

Sharp from @chrisgiles.ft.com on Farage’s (confused) thoughts on the Bank of England ep.ft.com/permalink/em...

Forget alarm-clock Britain – Reeves was talking to the bankers: Sean O’Grady www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

Another chance to marvel at Dick Cheney voting for Kamala Harris independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Rachel Reeves came to reassure us… but ended up on the rack www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

Peter Hyman: How to make Keir Starmer a social media star open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

Since the election almost all the vote movement has been within these blocs rather than between them. The centre/left bloc vote is rising because a lot of Lab24 voters who had been saying "don't know" are now saying "Green".

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

I can’t believe this is how I found out Dick Cheney died

Another chance to marvel at Dick Cheney voting for Kamala Harris independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Forget alarm-clock Britain – Reeves was talking to the bankers: Sean O’Grady www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

Rachel Reeves came to reassure us… but ended up on the rack www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

So many artistic treasures in the Louvre, but none as priceless as this

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Sharp from @chrisgiles.ft.com on Farage’s (confused) thoughts on the Bank of England ep.ft.com/permalink/em...

I have very helpfully been reminded this morning by Facebook that I posted this image 5 years ago today so, with that in mind, I thought I'd post it again! This is "Venice" by Walter Steggles, from his post-war work, most likely in the late 1940s or 1950s. #WalterSteggles #Venice #EastLondonGroup

The phrase “working people” was always duff www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...

Top colleague David Maddox on that cabinet split www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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An earlier occasion, in 1942, when the King had to deal with an embarrassing brother (from Andrew Roberts, Churchill) 1/2

An earlier occasion, in 1942, when the King had to deal with an embarrassing brother (from Andrew Roberts, Churchill) 1/2

“We don’t do God” is I think Alastair Campbell’s most quoted line – and it is usually misused 1/6

Striking quotations from ministers here