As welcome as the Chancellor’s change of tone after six months of doom and gloom might be, her pro-growth rhetoric doesn’t get a single shovel in the ground.
Whomever might replace us and Labour, if they prove just as hopeless, enough voters might conclude that this democracy shtick isn’t worth the effort, and it’s time we tried something new.
A previous chairman once claimed CCHQ doesn’t publish figures since it creates “media stories about short-term rises and falls in membership”. Our new leader can do that well enough on her own.
If we focus too much on learning the lessons of 1975, we will miss the lessons of 2025. But if the Conservative Party had wanted Anglo-Trumpism, we would have voted for Robert Jenrick.
Rather than making clear that “the Conservative Party is under new leadership,” Badenoch yesterday came across as Continuity Sunak. If she has to keep telling the public she is change, she isn’t.
Legions of one-term MPs may wonder why they bothered to be elected if their only job is to vote through exactly the sort of ‘austerity’ policies they entered politics to oppose. But you can’t ignore the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Even if the result of her cease and desist letter is to make Truss look silly, it raises the issue of the increasing litigiousness of our politics. If the law becomes contemptuous of politics, politicians will become contemptuous of the law.
Until Badenoch blunts Farage, she will not have the time to sit back, relax, return to first principles, and hope to come up with a couple of policies by the end of 2027.
Two forces drive the Education Secretary’s reactionary, anti-academic, and disastrous agenda: a desire for uniformity, and spite. She hates tall poppies.
Badenoch’s call for a public inquiry can only be the start of what must be a complete national moral reckoning with these horrors.
2025 will be the year of McSweeney versus Farage. Will our new leader be squeezed into irrelevance?
The number of countries where Christians face high to extreme levels of persecution has almost doubled since the early 1990s, with over 350 million worshippers facing serious discrimination, abuse, and violence.
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry (sensitive, young) men?
Sorry, Deputy Prime Minister, but the last thing local government should do is make sense to the man and woman in Whitehall, especially if its finances remain unreformed.
Politics is being played at ten times speech. Badenoch must blunt Farage’s advance, and fast.