‘Shaking up the adviser team’ is a well-known political tactic, although how much good it actually does is contested. An excess of advisers is yet another Thatcher legacy we could probably do without but will doubtless have to continue to live with.
Right on cue, is the right-wing media’s annual witch-hunt over the Trust’s alleged ‘wokeness.’
That Reform finds value in this kind of narrative tells us everything we need to know about where the party, and its chosen influencers, want to take the country.
While speculation about a right-wing pact to ensure that the Tories or Reform can win power is rampant, there’s little mention of any sort of progressive pact to save us from such a fate.
Liddle recounts being stuck in standstill traffic in a black cab, presumably somewhere in London, when inspiration struck.
The pro-Brexit outrage machine might crank into gear every September, but those EU flags still wave with a message far more in tune with the future, especially now, given that even a majority of Reform UK supporters want to unpick parts of Brexit and move the UK closer to Europe.
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a Christian nationalist movement in Britain – one inspired by a distinctly American form of evangelicalism, rooted not just in belief, but in an aggressive pursuit of power?
When commentators like Quentin Letts sharpen their claws, it usually means someone’s doing something right.
No sooner had she announced her plans to run, GB News launched a vitriolic attack, framing Ribeiro-Addy as a dangerous radical.
Farage might be clinking glasses at City breakfasts today, but the country could wake up with a hell of a hangover tomorrow.
