🔺Exclusive: The prime minister says he’s focused on bigger issues than Peter Mandelson or calls for his resignation. Most Labour MPs quietly back me, he tells Josh Glancy ⬇️

EXC I spent the past week interviewing Keir Starmer - He is 'going nowhere' and believes he can fight the next election - "There is always talk, the vast majority of the PLP is loyal" - No regrets over sacking Olly Robbins. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Incredibly balanced, sensible and realistic column this week by @joshglancy.bsky.social. It is nice for a British writer to appear in a British paper and reflect on the EU side of this conversation for once. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Labour's realignment with the EU will be slow, painful and expensive. But they are right to do it anyway, because Brexit isn't working My @thetimes.com column www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

British Jews turning their anger on a vituperative Guardian column felt like angst looking for somewhere safe to land

How do I feel about the war in Iran? Like I'm on a very, very narrow bridge. My @jewishnews.bsky.social column www.jewishnews.co.uk/on-a-very-na...

🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...

There is a lot to be said for this letter in today's Times

Richard Hermer vs David Wolfson Born 1968, silk 2009, attorneys general 2024. Yet the differences between them tells the story of the crossroads Anglo-Jewry has reached My @jewishnews.bsky.social column thttps://www.jewishnews.co.uk/hermer-and-wolfson-the-fault-line-running-through-anglo-jewry/

Theodor Meron survived the Holocaust, found refuge in Israel, helped set up the ICC, then aged 93 indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. He stands by his decision. It was fascinating to interview him www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Suitably tentative by @joshglancy.bsky.social on whether Wes Streeting is all comms and no substance 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Such an interesting insight from @joshglancy.bsky.social that I hope others pick up. It’s great that Trump has caught up with us on Farage but what does he consider to be ‘real’? Is there a snake oil that works?

Has the Trump-Farage bromance cooled? One very well-placed source tells me that the president has "lost faith" with his former pal www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

SCOOP Keir Starmer has been invited to join the Gaza board of peace by the Trump administration. Former PM Tony Blair's candidacy for the board, which will in theory administer the strip's transition to a post-Hamas future, was dropped last year. times-comment.com/starmer-trump

With almost every dominant issue of today — from welfare spending to court backlogs, NHS waiting lists, school absenteeism and the national debt — the pandemic’s aftershocks are at or near the heart of the matter. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @joshglancy.bsky.social

- Two child benefit cap to be abolished after all - Deep frustrations from team Reeves about Gordon Brown's unhelpful interventions on the issue - Lots of blame for the chaotic budget process being levelled at Torsten Bell My @thetimes.com pre-budget read www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain was official Tory party policy - until Katie Lam spelled it out to me in a newspaper interview. And now it ... isn't

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

I wrote a column for @jewishnews.bsky.social on the shattering of Anglo-Jewish innocence. And what may come next. www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-...

Keir Starmer's lack of "vision" and "narrative" has become a cliche at this point. But this isn't just a PR problem. It has a real cost - in muddled hiring decisions and Whitehall not knowing what is it the PM actually wants to do. My @thetimes.com column www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🔎 Analysis: Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis ⬇️

Went on The Times podcast to talk about the Green Party leadership race and the new energy mustering on the left of British politics

A world class piece of reporting from the streets of Haiti by Louise Callaghan. Heartrending, terrifying, quietly furious www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

For today's @thetimes.com read, I spoke to Labour MPs ahead of a seismic autumn for Starmer. The mood is ... existential 'It’s been a bizarrely quiet summer' 'I’m staggered by the lack of direction' 'It can’t carry on at this pace. It’s not sustainable' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

In June 2022, Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Fern received an early police knock at their Singapore apartment. They flew to London and claimed asylum. But why had the son of Lee Kuan Yew fled his own country? They tell their full story here, for the first time www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

The PM tells Josh Glancy it is "total bollocks" that Morgan McSweeney (not Keir Starmer) is in charge of the Starmer project www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

Is ChatGPT destroying the university degree as we know it? Or can it be harnessed for good? On the cover of this week's News Review is an excellent if terrifying report, by @louise-eccles.bsky.social and @lottiemayhayton.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Oh this is awful - Pembrokeshire Council are trying (successfully so far) to close down this wonderful restaurant I reviewed only last Sunday. If you have visited, think you might want to, or just care about good restaurants, please do write to the address they advise.

My op-ed yesterday in @thetimes.com Tariffs, of course. www.thetimes.com/article/8e80...

On the cover of today's News Review, Andrew Sullivan reflects on 100 days of Trump's "vengeful monarchy" www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

"By questioning so many of the assumptions and arrangements that underpin our international order, America’s current president is holding up a mirror and forcing us to examine our own souls" | ✍️ @joshglancy.bsky.social

Yorkshire is the Texas of Britain. Correct opinion from @charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Trump's chaos is stress testing our entire way of life. But if we can pass the test, we may yet emerge stronger My Sunday Times column www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewi...

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewi...

Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it

Who is the real JD Vance? A man who could ' deliver on the promise of Trumpism' better than Trump, says @joshglancy.bsky.social ⬇️ 🎙️ The Story podcast 🗣️ @jonesluke.bsky.social 🔗 pod.fo/e/2bcff1

In pursuit of Britain’s favourite food: the chicken wing (no paywall) www.thetimes.com/article/99e5...

Today's News Review cover is a fascinating interview with Sarah Wynn-Williams, discussing her explosive Facebook memoir with Ros Urwin. The interview was conducted just before Meta injuncted Sarah and prevented her from speaking. It is free to read. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

If you liked Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mr Walliker in Bridget Jones, meet the man behind him, my favourite history teacher as a young kid and someone who lifted me out of a deep childhood slump. Teachers really can do remarkable things www.thetimes.com/article/5f1a...

Dominic Cummings on Boris Johnson. From @joshglancy.bsky.social’s riveting interview. Too good. www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

Fascinating interview with Dominic Cummings from @joshglancy.bsky.social today www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Dozens of men in balaclavas rampaged through farmland and threatened villagers to create an arena for their illegal blood sport — so why didn’t officers respond?

Love this Roisin Kelly interview with Livia Firth, who is remarkably chipper for someone whose business got hacked, scammed and liquidated, had breast cancer and a divorce and a stalking issue, and yet is somehow still smiling www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger. He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers" (Free to read) www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

Superb interview with Dominic Cummings by @joshglancy.bsky.social includes this par which i cannot stop reading www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Dominic Cummings confirms he advised Jeremy Corbyn's team on Brexit – revealed in GET IN – via Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...