The Conservatives' best chance of winning in London was to turn the race into a referendum on Sadiq Khan. By picking a candidate as flawed as Susan Hall, they allowed it to become a choice.

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After exactly three years and nearly 700 hundred editions, my (award-winning!) West End Final newsletter has just passed 100,000 subscribers.

Quite silly to think that’s the capacity of the Emirates and Stamford Bridge combined.

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Life achievement unlocked: to have made (and awarded an episode title no less) the Adam Hurrey podcast. Feels awfully sins-y. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new…

In its purest form, football is escapism. Problem is, the outside world is, like a veteran defender, encroaching ever closer

Jack Kessler

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Why men just can’t stop thinking about the Liberal Democrats.

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🗣️ 'As this excellent report by UK in a Changing Europe points out, that clause is, erm, a little vague.'

🗞️ Read the latest from Jack Kessler in the Standard News on our new report and Labour's hopes to use the TCA Review to change UK/EU relations.

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Liz Truss has learned nothing, still blames everyone else.

From today’s West End Final newsletter.

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Labour portrays Britain as dystopia of crumbling schools, putrefying rivers and broke councils. At the same time, it says no one will have to pay more to fix it. How long can this line hold?

Me in today’s The Standard. standard.co.uk/comment/labour…

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Wednesday’s The Standard #Putin Hitler #KimJongUn #Putin #cartoon

I still study Arsenal’s Champions League away fixtures and think ‘oh good, Dennis should be able to travel to those.’

Ulez extension is a victory for Sadiq Khan and anyone with lungs. But the effort required to get here bodes ill for the future.

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Fuel duty is a distance-based charge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The point of devolution is to do things that may run counter to national policies, on the basis that the needs and interests of London are different to those of Leeds or Exeter

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Women’s football is great! Let’s criticise it more.

My column in today’s The Standard. standard.co.uk/comment/womens…

Where have all the climate deniers gone? So many of the things they dismissively said would never come to pass are not only happening, but even sooner than projected

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No one knows where house prices are headed (and if they did, they wouldn’t tell you). But here's what we do know...

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Did the climate deniers withdraw from public life in quiet shame? Of course not – they'd long moved on to other pursuits, because there's no accountability for being wrong.

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