Bear with, bear with ... hotfoot from Bournemouth, I was allowed by the chaps to do my own 5-point plan on what the Lib Dems need to do next (after Tim's similar re Reform) ... 📻 ... *hard hat*. With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/2YHL...

Action replay of this earlier contretemps? No! But just Montie and me this week as @iainmartin1.bsky.social and @steverichards.bsky.social are gallivanting - NAO new ep about political friendships from different 'teams' open.spotify.com/episode/5FUd...

Labour rebels making a catastrophic economic error leading Britian leftwards. Me on the cost of the last couple of days of chaos. www.reaction.life/p/labour-reb...

Iran’s regime stuffed - what if the CRINK is losing? My newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Britain’s economy and its politics were broken by the financial crisis. My latest newsletter for subscribers, on RBS and the ongoing impact of the crash… open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

📻 🎂 🎉A double birthday! - I turn *sorry I didn't quite catch that* today (a medical miracle) and Not Another One is A YEAR OLD! First anniversary Brexit ep - it's been growing through word of mouth: Montie @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3noq...

Happy 1st birthday to us! A year of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. Concept was Tim’s - on most political podcasts everyone agrees. We disagree but we like each other. Here’s to year two. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Is Rachel Reeves losing her control over the government? Latest episide of Not Another One with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Why Trump and the US backed the Chagos deal. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Is Boris Johnson planning a comeback? On the latest episode of our Not Another One podcast, we discuss Keir Starmer’s EU reset and the likely political implications. With Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.

The power of political language. Weekend edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomerie, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social and me. On soundbites, speechwriting, phrase making and persuasion, from Churchill through Thatcher, Blair, Brexit and more. Plus some Trump.

The myth of the Single Market open.substack.com/pub/siliconc...

Is the Tory party dying? The next general election, probably only three years away, is shaping up to be a Starmer v Farage contest. My latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Island of strangers… Has Starmer got it right or wrong on immigration? The latest episode of Not Another One with Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie, Steve Richards and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Transgender revolutionary madness and the extraordinary power of very bad ideas. My latest newsletter is on revolutions and why they usually go wrong. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

I was on the M3 but the others had a good old chinwag about British Steel the Birmingham bins and more - plus the listener whose data analysis finds me "admirably restrained" re Thatch mentions - tee hee @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/3uig...

Has anyone been keeping a list of subjects you “need to do a whole podcast about at some point”? There seems to be at least one every episode of (the excellent) #notanotherone podcast. @greenmirandahere.bsky.social @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 🎙️‘Perceptions of defence in a changed world’ @starychsam.bsky.social and @paulmason.bsky.social are joined by @iainmartin1.bsky.social, Director, London Defence Conference, and Dr Hillary Briffa, Senior Lecturer, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social #DefenceTalks @baesystems.com

never going to get bored of photographing spring blossom

We are delighted and honoured to announce that @iainmartin1.bsky.social will be joining our Advisory Board 🌍 Read the full announcement here 👇 www.geostrategy.org....

Not Another One on the welfare reform green paper - shallow or radical? reform or just cuts? With @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and me open.spotify.com/episode/2wft... (also on all the other platforms but I'm an apple refusenik so here's the spotify - plse subscribe!)

Great PMs learn and improve? Can Keir Starmer do it? Since Trump’s inauguration two months ago the Labour leader has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis. Is it real? Will his party and the voters stand for the policies required? (My latest newsletter.) open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Will Trump make Britain fall out of love with America? Latest weekend/magazine edition of Not Another One podcast with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Tim Montgomerie and me (Steve Richards returns next week). podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Will Trump make Britain fall out of love with America? Latest weekend/magazine edition of Not Another One podcast with @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Tim Montgomerie and me (Steve Richards returns next week). podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Weekend ep of Not Another One attempts to offer relief from the news blizzard again - recommendations of what to read and listen to for perspective. @steverichards.bsky.social live from Portugal with a nice cold glass of vinho. @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Montie open.spotify.com/episode/3ota...

In the middle of the news blizzard (the diplomatic tumult was still to come when recorded) Not Another One this week is broad: populism, Blue Labour, loneliness, Reform and contagious Trumpism @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social Tim Montgomerie and me open.spotify.com/episode/2o3D...

Is Trump running Starmer’s defence policy? Latest edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Benjamin Disraeli first became PM #OTD 1868. From his 1844 novel Coningsby: ‘Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens … It is the philosopher alone who can conceive the grandeur of Manchester and the immensity of its future.’

Is Trump running Starmer’s defence policy? Latest edition of the Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

I explicitly say in the piece that private or nationalised isn't the key variable, but if people are going to make stupid remarks I am going to respond by going 'yes. By the standards of British railways, privatisation has done an outstanding job'.

Steve Bannon and CPAC are too far right in promoting Nazi symbolism for Le Pen/Bardella to associate with them. The French National Rally are now too moderate for Bannon/MAGA and the Trump core (who prefer Zemmour's more overtly xenophobic party + the German AfD strategy of going harder right)

What are the domestic consequences of the international crisis?Starmer’s choices, increased defence spending, the impact on policy. Plus what it means for Reform - Latest Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

What are the domestic consequences of the international crisis?Starmer’s choices, increased defence spending, the impact on policy. Plus what it means for Reform - Latest Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Yes.

Does Trump’s initiative mean peace in Ukraine or a wider European war? The latest episode of Not Another One is out with Tim Montgomerie (chairing this week after a coup) Steve Richards, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Does Trump’s initiative mean peace in Ukraine or a wider European war? The latest episode of Not Another One is out with Tim Montgomerie (chairing this week after a coup) Steve Richards, Miranda Green and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Macron: “We must also develop a fully integ­rated European defence indus­trial and tech­no­lo­gical base.” He might therefore demand changes in the EU’s protectionist third-country rules which stop UK defence industry from participating in projects involving EU funding. The world has moved on!

The betrayal of Ukraine. Anthony Beevor in Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

Fifty years of Thatcher: What did she do with power? Not Another One podcast latest. Second episode of our three part series marking five decades since she became Tory leader. With Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Fifty years of Thatcher: What did she do with power? Not Another One podcast latest. Second episode of our three part series marking five decades since she became Tory leader. With Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Can Starmer get close to Trump and the EU? Latest episode of Not Another One podcast with Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomerie and me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Trump tariff war will dictate the UK’s geopolitical future. More US or more Europe. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Trump tariff war will dictate the UK’s geopolitical future. More US or more Europe. My latest newsletter for subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/reaction...

Special 3 parter over the next few days on the Thatcher anniversary from the Not Another One pod with me @steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social and Tim Montgomerie - ep one is out! Her rise 📻https://open.spotify.com/episode/2g3BOpwrqeOVFSQMIIy3L7?si=0b34c226e76d4878

If you feel spending 2.5% or even 3% of the UK’s GDP on defence to be unaffordable, consider the price of falling victim to aggression. This year Ukraine will be committing 26.3% of its economy to the war