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🎙Great insights on origins and implications of this week's welfare bill stand-off from Stephen Bush and Jim Pickard 🐋 in our latest Financial Times Political Fix on.ft.com/4l4nyBi

At Glastonbury yesterday, a band called for “inshallah, from the river to the sea.” The crowd cheered. When I hear that phrase chanted with joy, I feel fear and - whoever you are - so should you. Most people don’t understand what it means. But it’s been used for decades by

How can you be acceptably dressed at work when you have to get there via the mobile oven that is the Central Line? 🥵🥵🥵🥵 me for Financial Times on.ft.com/4nsvOwk

I’ve seen people not even bother to do up the fastenings on their too-tight jeans. Less muffin top, more entire bakery on show. love this from Miranda Green ft.com/content/aaa210…

Delighted to have written for Financial Times on ‘Lessons for delivering change for a restless electorate’ Using research from my new 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’ Read more here 🔗 on.ft.com/3G2AKHG

My god the tube. Now back where I should have stayed. Akimbo.

Fancy something that goes against the narrative? Then try this puckish piece from Tim Leunig on the left case for Reeves. politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

Landslide one year on: the blurb says we disagree "calmly" on Not Another One. A feat in angry week: you be the judge. steve richards Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 Iain Martin et moi open.spotify.com/episode/7sjIhn…

Huge admiration for Rachel Reeves for having the guts to go into politics. A 100x braver than the armchair cowards on here. Crying doesn’t show “weakness”. Don’t agree with her policies but salute her courage, not least for going into the chamber while feeling miserable

A *second* pair of summer shoes has fallen apart in the street this evening ... 🫠 on.ft.com/4kloobA

Disappointing that Turner’s painting of Hotwells was not secured by Bristol Art Gallery, being outbid by a private collector. Let’s hope whoever has bought it has a good look in the mirror and thinks it would be a grand gesture to lend it to us for a year before hiding it away.

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I wasn’t surprised to receive a deluge of racist abuse after challenging Rupert Lowe online, but it’s sad that any MP has a personal following that feels emboldened by his rhetoric. Being compared to a monkey, being called a “half-African gutter-snipe”, being called an “Uncle

Paging John Thornhill

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How much trouble is the govt in? Slightly longer Not Another One this week and one ep: a lot to debate! 🎙steve richards Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 Iain Martin open.spotify.com/episode/2hGh7H…

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