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I realise that Cameron and Osborne destroyed the Conservative Party in the end and would have destroyed the country had the Scots voted for independence.
FT headline today:
France heads back to its postwar era of ungovernability
Lady Lawlor:
A massive farce is how media outlets are pretending they were victimized by the Biden WH's concealment of his cognitive decline.
The media -- with a few exceptions -- were the *perpetrators* of this fraud, not victims of it.
Sam Freedman:
“Every Labour Prime Minister has had a Benn in their cabinet.”
“Every Labour Prime Minister has had a Benn in their cabinet.”
Immensely telling that the very first words Biden tells newly elected Keir Starmer is all about war and conflict, how the "special relationship" today means them working together on fighting Russia and containing China... And obviously the word "peace" wasn't pronounced...
Charles Moore:
"The rethinks of the past 30 years – Blair’s, Cameron’s, Starmer’s – have devoted their energies to rebranding their parties rather than reforming their country. It is almost half a century since Margaret Thatcher tried to address both questions at the same time. In the intervening years, the nation’s political brain has atrophied."
"The rethinks of the past 30 years – Blair’s, Cameron’s, Starmer’s – have devoted their energies to rebranding their parties rather than reforming their country. It is almost half a century since Margaret Thatcher tried to address both questions at the same time. In the intervening years, the nation’s political brain has atrophied."
Very interesting tweets by Robert Colville.
Yuan Yi Zhu, assistant professor at Leiden University and a research fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, in Unherd:
"It is difficult to imagine England without Tories. It would be like Trollope without the steeples, Dickens without London, Wodehouse without mad baronets. Yet in many ways it is already a reality. As Samuel McIlhagga’s recent tour of Conservative clubs showed, large parts of the centuries-old social infrastructure of the party have long collapsed, like the ruins of the temples of some ancient religion denuded of meaning. A party which once seamlessly commanded support from the highest classes to the lowest has essentially abandoned the urbanised, the university-educated, and anyone below the state pension age."
"It is difficult to imagine England without Tories. It would be like Trollope without the steeples, Dickens without London, Wodehouse without mad baronets. Yet in many ways it is already a reality. As Samuel McIlhagga’s recent tour of Conservative clubs showed, large parts of the centuries-old social infrastructure of the party have long collapsed, like the ruins of the temples of some ancient religion denuded of meaning. A party which once seamlessly commanded support from the highest classes to the lowest has essentially abandoned the urbanised, the university-educated, and anyone below the state pension age."
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