[coughs] www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm currently on my way to Tommy Robinson's latest rally. He's a convicted criminal, too extreme even for Nigel Farage & liked by only 14% of Brits. Yet last September he got 150,000 people onto the streets. He's helped shift the Overton window on immigration. How? I try to explain in this article 👇

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

The truth about Orban’s regime is coming out. Interesting to see if information about their UK links is revealed.

Only more Wes Streeting can save us now.

It IS time

Quite the story from Sky – Nigel Farage bought a £1.4m property *in cash* after getting the £5m gift supposedly intended for his security. Reform say, very specifically: "The offer and process for purchase of this property commenced before the gift". news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

*bursts in sweating* "THE WES IS HISTORY"

Well, now they can install Alan Milburn as Health Secretary: cut out the middle-man and go straight to the organ-grinder.

You wouldn’t know Wes Streeting’s 81 nominators: they go to another Parliament.

Oh, the grand old Duke of Ilford North He has 81 men He's marched them up to the top of the hill

Wes Streeting tonight: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jG16...

You know it makes sense.

I endorse this Bat-Signal.

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

Struck-off doctors are finding jobs in other EU countries, investigation finds

Surprised to discover there's a bunch of people who claim to be on the Left, live on narrowboats moored at the same location for years, and don't pay council tax. We set out the actual law here: buff.ly/XVvHYm6

Big news from Westminster - at last we’re going to have a Single Patient Record. Why it’s a good thing and why the government must act to ensure our health data is in safe hands open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...

Last week’s column www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

The BBC’s “retreat to babytalk” became their way of saying “sorry, it turns out when you take a look at the detail of Brexit, we were sold a false bill of goods! Don’t hurt me!”

“Psychodrama” has always obscured more than it resolved- right from the start it was the way that BBC Politics in that era babbled its way around the conviction that couldn’t cover Brexit in detail without being biased and that the public needed to be talked down to.

“The question is not simply what the optimal fiscal framework looks like, but how reform can be sequenced in a context of elevated borrowing costs and heightened market sensitivity”. V interesting, lots to agree with. renewal.org.uk/articles/a-n...

Agree. Here's one I wrote ten(!) years ago: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/against-po...

Do poor towns really have the worst hospitals? Analysis here of new data that helps map NHS provider quality against their patient deprivation profile. lawrencedunhill.substack.com/p/do-poor-to...

Well. www.thenewworld.co.uk/new-beveridg...

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church Byline Times' new findings cast doubts on Farage's claim of refusing to associate with extreme elements – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social reports

Ooops www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don’t let anyone forget.

Proper meat-and-potatoes old school scandal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lovely to see ABBA haven’t changed much since their heyday…

Oooh www.instagram.com/p/DXhT3z5gIN...

Narrator: in fact, he had quite a lot of cards.

These two things are of course intensely related in that the modal Conservative London leaflet used to be 'hello! We're you're hardworking local Tories. We hate three things: restrictions on cars, leaseholders paying for everything, and the geopolitical enemies of the most affluentl local diaspora'.

Other striking features of these local elections: it is really quite noteworthy just how many London leaflets have completely forgotten that leaseholders exist and vote.

As readers of my newsletter may have noticed, I have become increasingly incessant in my call for people to photograph and email the leaflets they get to me, in part because it took me ages to absorb that it wasn't that fewer readers were sending me leaflets, but that fewer Tories were sending them.

There is considerable overlap between 1. Believers in a free lunch without trade offs 2. NIMBYism 3. The Greens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooooooh! ‘The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’ on BBC4. Best end of a Western, ever

Whatever happened to Matt Hancock?

“Perhaps progress can only be achieved by merging health and social care budgets and power - but no politicians seem capable of accepting the electoral costs of such a change.

Wes Streeting is the rail replacement bus service of Health Secretaries. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

Temporarily unpaywalling my latest column on the state of the English NHS: www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

One must have a heart of stone not to laugh. www.ft.com/content/a9b6...

Trump made every mistake in the strategy book but also some new ones that aren't in any book because he's so absurd.

“Now I’m never gonna dance again: Guilty feet have got Matt Hancock”