Is Ed Miliband’s push towards net zero heading for trouble? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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A bad case of “Patrick Maguire Syndrome”, as diagnosed by Peter Mandelson www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Pat McFadden, asked by Laura Kuenssberg about Tony Blair’s essay

Tony Blair continues the essay war in The Observer observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 1/4

Andy Burnham on the front page of the Mail: he would be the second PM with a tattoo after who?

That is a really interesting argument and reflects the problems the US parties have with primaries throwing up poor candidates loved by the registered voters. The whole electoral system here - and there - needs change.

Putin’s Crimea problem, by @LawDavF samf.substack.com/p/putins-cri...

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Andy Burnham on the front page of the Mail: he would be the second PM with a tattoo after who?

I hadn't realised the rot set in with the Liberals in 1976, when party members were given the vote in choosing David Steel as Jeremy Thorpe's successor – Peter Kellner kellnerp.substack.com/p/hand-the-p...

Tony Blair continues the essay war in The Observer observer.co.uk/news/opinion... 1/4

Pat McFadden, asked by Laura Kuenssberg about Tony Blair’s essay

Kemi Badenoch took over a party facing oblivion and may end up saving it www.independent.co.uk/voices/kemi-...

And Scottish independence would be several times worse!

Answers to the i paper quiz are here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Kemi Badenoch took over a party facing oblivion and may end up saving it www.independent.co.uk/voices/kemi-...

At last! I look forward to separatists fighting a referendum admitting that Scottish residents will be £2,000 a year worse off "for a while" – but it will be worth it, honest

3/10 in John Clarke's Saturday Quiz in the i paper (answers in the paper or here later)

Marvellous account of his 32 years at @the-independent.com by @simoncalder.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Marvellous account of his 32 years at @the-independent.com by @simoncalder.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

3/10 in John Clarke's Saturday Quiz in the i paper (answers in the paper or here later)

More under-the-bonnet inspection of Burnham's Manchesterism from Jennifer Williams, FT ep.ft.com/permalink/em...

If North Sea oil & gas will be used for “generations”, should we not produce as much as we can, employing British workers and yielding British tax revenues, and import as little as we can?

Keir Starmer’s riposte to Blair is also witty: “I respect his opinion” because he is “the only *other* living person to have secured a Labour majority” keirstarmer.substack.com/p/tony-blair...

This is also interesting from @yougov.co.uk yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

What I said. People are more likely to say Tony Blair would be a better PM than Keir Starmer than the other way round @yougov.co.uk

Can artificial intelligence save BBC Question Time? www.independent.co.uk/voices/quest...

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Not decisively en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaders...

And it would change dramatically in the other direction if it were explained that we need oil & gas for decades even with net zero 2050, and British production means British jobs and British tax revenue

From the archive, 6 years ago: The Coughing Major; Canoe Man; the Bouncing Czech: #Top10 Misapplied Tabloid Titles independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

This is also interesting from @yougov.co.uk yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

What I said. People are more likely to say Tony Blair would be a better PM than Keir Starmer than the other way round @yougov.co.uk

Keir Starmer’s riposte to Blair is also witty: “I respect his opinion” because he is “the only *other* living person to have secured a Labour majority” keirstarmer.substack.com/p/tony-blair...

Onto immigration, where he complains about asylum accommodation forced on “some of the UK’s most deprived communitities”, & says in a small voice: “On small boat crossings, Tony echoes many people in Makerfield in calling for much firmer control” 9/10

Andy Burnham starts his riposte wittily by praising Tony Blair’s essay for opposing “re-running divisive arguments about rejoining the EU” thetimes.com/uk/politics/... 1/10

More under-the-bonnet inspection of Burnham's Manchesterism from Jennifer Williams, FT ep.ft.com/permalink/em...

Can artificial intelligence save BBC Question Time? www.independent.co.uk/voices/quest...

From the archive, 4 years ago: #Top10 Surprisingly Recently Invented Foods www.independent.co.uk/voices/recen...

Whoever is prime minister needs to be more New Labour www.independent.co.uk/voices/labou...

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It’s like the pamphleteers of the 17th C: politics by battling essays keirstarmer.substack.com/p/tony-blair...

Andy Burnham starts his riposte wittily by praising Tony Blair’s essay for opposing “re-running divisive arguments about rejoining the EU” thetimes.com/uk/politics/... 1/10

You think the SNP govt is lying to you about the net benefit of £2,000 a year per Scottish resident from UK sharing? I'd have a word with your MSP

True. The Labour government of the 1980s was terrible

Whoever is prime minister needs to be more New Labour www.independent.co.uk/voices/labou...

Andy Burnham backs proportional representation for Westminster with a Labour manifesto commitment if he becomes leader. He also says he would work with the Greens. My interview for @theobserveruk.bsky.social Walk observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Milburn says migrants not to blame for Neets crisis - but falling immigration creates 'opportunity' to help solve problem - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...