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OK here we go🎙the FT's Poltical Fix dissects Labour's spending review with Chris Giles on the "baffling" wall of figures while Stephen Bush and Jim Pickard 🐋 ponder the politics with me open.spotify.com/episode/2HZ5L9…

You gotta go see ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’. Terrific film. Wonderful songs too.

Stephen Bush Best British film for a while!

This week's column (with a wonderful illustration by Ewan White) on the end of the era of telly: ft.com/content/c5b865…

Great piece by George Parker and Jim Pickard 🐋 ft.com/content/271569…

Almost all organisations are happiest when they can work to the boss, and when the boss has no political project, “the boss” becomes “the next election”, even when it is so far away as to be meaningless: ft.com/content/38a327…

Worrying read for ⁦UK Prime Minister⁩⁩ - as ⁦Stephen Bush⁩ reports some ⁦The Labour Party⁩ MPs are now openly discussing ousting #Starmer as leader. “Combination of bad politics/policy means Government is heading for a Commons defeat …” on.ft.com/4niVRG8

Love the hed and illustration by Ewan White on my column this week: ft.com/content/07ed55…

Brilliant piece on the swirling discontent around Morgan McSweeney by @pickardje @georgewparker and @annasophiegross: ft.com/content/fee4fe…

Never bright, confident morning again? Terrific column by robert shrimsley: ft.com/content/fc6a7f…

While the world waits for further intelligence on the Iran strikes: there is one thing everyone in Trump world can agree on: the establishment is still out to get them. Or in the words of one Hill staffer: “The deep state rears its head again.” thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

My column in today’s FT on Labour’s difficult first year: ft.com/content/46bafc…

Very grateful to Jonathan Eley , who has written today’s insightful and important Inside Politics: ft.com/content/4610af…

Terrific column by robert shrimsley: ft.com/content/c04719…

Some thoughts on the triple lock in today’s note: ft.com/content/f0a80a…