Sophy Ridge's face certainly tells a story

How it worse than Truss or Johnson? Truss crashed the economy (something Reeves hasn't (yet at least) Boris was partying during COVID & gave 37m to Michelle Mone while every1 else was in isolation. Lab haven't been gr8 but let's put into perspective please

I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.

And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5

Again, that depends on which military you are looking at within European frameworks. The Finns, Poles, in naval terms Italians, French, Swedes, even the Romanians have rapidly ramped up. Not every Euro state suffers from British or German military dysfunction

Or even highlight effectively the handful of big moves they did implement in first 6 months. Of course comms alone can never shift things but a narrative of hope underpinned by policies that match those aspirations is the sort of thing centre-left oppositions are supposed to spend years planning for

The inability of Labour in the first year to generate a comms narrative of hope firmly backed up by two or three big policy initiatives that delivered tangible positive outcomes to its voter base will kill this government

Yes, it's why while I think criticism from Gauke and others wasn't off base I think they are missing how Centrist inability to generate hope means their cries of "but Truss! But bond markets!" over time won't be enough to contain populist waves

The next govt will probably be decided by a handful of votes. If Vox has enough deputies to put the PP in power the PP will say yes to whatever the neofascists demand, and they'll demand a lot: attack on immigrants and sexual minorities will be top of the llist by an end to climate change measures

Yeah werid how taboo it is just to say this out loud

Quite a few indications too that a lot of more Centrist commentators and political figures are underestimating Polanski and Green potential from the Left as they did Farage's potential from the Right before 2012