Too perfect.

“All people like me care about is policies”.

Quite.

Actually getting into & being in power is irrelevant. Obviously. What good has that ever done?

You couldn’t make it up.

Underrated tweet.

One of the things I admire about David Clark 🇺🇦 (with whom I don’t always agree) is his rare combination of concision, insight & … , how shall I put this? - politely pungent directness.

Sadiq Khan’s 44% vote in London is the same as Labour’s current national polling average.

Susan Hall’s 33% is 10 points above the Conservatives’ current national polling average.

Howard Cox’s 3% is 10 below Reform’s current national polling average.

London isn’t the UK. But …

The country will blossom in sunlit uplands, they said.

We’ll get more growth in a liberated, flourishing economy, they said.

Everything will smell of roses after Brexit, they said.

“UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new Brexit border checks” The Observer

When an obvious mass influence campaign is executed to suggest an election result which isn’t in doubt has in fact gone the other way, journalists, politicians & voters shouldn’t boost it.

They should understand it’s an attack on the country.

Not just a bit of social media fun.

What’s going on in “top” UK political commentary?

No one can be entirely certain, so hold onto your hats.

But it is clear this afternoon that complete reputational oblivion is much much closer for some luminaries than they realise or are willing to acknowledge …

Here’s Kenneth Clark (born 1903) describing, in 1969, the pre-1914 elite being “as ignorant as swans”.

We’ll never know whether he’d have chosen a multicellular organism as his metaphor for those, a century later, who’ve led us to the sunlit uplands of oven-ready ruination.

Regardless of differing views on the policy, I find it impossible to explain how, in an immediate pre-election period, this Home Office communication could be considered appropriate, whether by ministers or top civil servants.

That’s because it very clearly isn’t.

What’s the key to international justice, or at least something which looks a bit like it?

According to a less than complimentary reply I received, my attempt to explain (attached 🧵) is nothing new: “anyone with A Level law knows it”.

If you don’t have A Level law, read on! ⬇️