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If being honest about the dire state of the public finances spooks the markets, doesn't the problem lie with those who brought the public finances to that state? When your economy relies on hoping that no one looks beneath the bonnet, your economy is heading for trouble.

Surreal moment on #r4today: Amol Rajan asks Bridget Phillipson how she'll vote on assisted dying; she answers, but stresess that MPs must decide without govt pressure. Rajan then asks how she can justifying answering his question. "Today" has to break its obsession with the "gotcha"

One of the great church windows

Strongly support this - far too much time spent talking about who is winning and not enough on what is at stake

I got to live and work in this magical place for eight years. Pretty much every day I'd be taken aback by how beautiful it was.

We shouldn't (and, realistically, can't) ban polling before an election - but we *can* stop organising our entire electoral coverage around it. An election is a choice to be debated, not just a race to be forecast.

Another good church window

Just been sent this. Think he won that one.

When I was a sixth-former, Prescott spoke at a politics A-Level conference. A Tory pupil tried to take him down & got absolutely mollered by him. But then Prescott did something surprising: he apologised, said it was a fair question & gave a long answer. I really respected that

Just after resigning as Prime Minister in 1957, Sir Anthony Eden sailed to New Zealand. His steward on board ship was John Prescott…

Marmite.

Next Wednesday, 4 Dec, I'll be speaking at QMUL History Society about Scotland’s first devolution referendum and the country’s social and political culture in the 1970s. It starts at 4pm and is free to attend (bloody well should be, you say ...) so do join us! eventbrite.com/e/old-songs-lo…

If you're in Oxford, I'll be speaking tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm at the Modern History Seminar on "Writing History After Brexit". It's a roundtable with me, Patricia Clavin, Anne Deighton and Robert Gildea, chaired by Senia Paseta. Should be fun! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/i…

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For our penultimate bad idea in this series, David talks to Robert Saunders about what’s gone wrong with British politics since party members got to decide who leads the party – and in some cases who gets to be PM. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

"Party Members Choosing Party Leaders" Is the problem the principle of the thing or the people who end up in charge (Corbyn, Truss)? How did reforms undertaken in the name of democracy manage to undermine democracy? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com