Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
"Outlook: maybe it would be easier to call them all?"
Jonn Elledgesuggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"
Also, an MP doesn't have to fight a by-election to talk to their constituents.
TyronKind of a mental line from Farage on why it's so good for him to be fighting the Clacton by-election. Reform shouldn't ever have needed to be seriously fighting Clacton at the next general election if they were remotely on track to be the next opposition, let alone the government?
The actual news line here is that Farage had abdominal surgery this month. Which perhaps explains why he's still too busy to explain his finances.
James HealeExc: Reform’s shadow cabinet set to be expanded at party conference, with two or three more names added Nigel Farage signals he will stand behind George Cottrell: ‘I don’t dump trusted friends unless they betray me – it’s as simple as that.’ Out in Nigeland: spectator.com/article/hes-...
Look, they were paying by the word, and I had bills to pay.
Duncan RobinsonAt this stage in the bootlicking cycle in 2024, you had people writing pieces about how much they wanted to shag Keir Starmer
As it happens, Chris Bryant's book "Glamour Boys" is about the gay politicians who saw early the danger of Hitler and in at last one case died fighting him. Ronald Cartland's defence of Cassel in 1940 was pretty damn macho.
Peter WalkerI've ready some pretty odd Telegraph opinion pieces in my time, but this might be the oddest. I wonder just what it is about Wes Streeting and Chris Bryant that makes the author believe they're somehow just not macho enough for government.
Imagine Grant Shapps - Grant Shapps! - being too ideologically inflexible for the modern Conservatives.
James HealeExc: Grant Shapps believed to be one of at least 10 ex Tory MPs who have failed their assessments as Badenoch overhauls selection process spectator.com/article/gran...