… social investment and the third way to justify interventions on child poverty. This govt has no underlying philosophy and hence no story to tell. Ironically, the only senior member to orate a philosophy is Reeves herself. Ending child poverty could easily be part of a ‘Securonomics’ agenda.

Go back and listen to George W Bush – it is profound in comparison to what we have today!

Great post. What is interesting is that the government has had to be cautious because of their posturing on migration, which has done nothing to win over Reform voters but has constrained their ability to do anything transformative which would pay off in the future. Very bad politics

Really found this analysis useful, Sam. Worth the subscription fee just for this 😊

Criticising Myleene Klass for her outburst was my first ever viral tweet on Twitter haha.

What have you found so far?

Yeah I still enjoy seasons 8 & 9. It’s also stylistically different as Jerry Seinfeld steered it towards absurdism instead of nihilism.

Not drama but most great sitcoms never sustain the greatness of earlier seasons: Seinfeld, Peep Show etc. For some reason the actors seem to lose their chemistry, you would expect the opposite. Maybe good writing makes the chemistry. Larry David stopped writing for the last two seasons of Seinfeld.

I sometimes get excited about the prospect of Miliband getting the Labour leadership again and how much better it might be, but that is tempered by remembering it was Miliband who appointed Glasman a peer and gave Blue Labour its influence in the party.

Would be good to see some head to head polling on best PM: Miliband vs Farage.

Coming of age in an era of cheap money has distorted a lot of commentators’ and politicians’ perception of the economy.

That’s because they think Twitter is reality.

I know Starmer seized control of the NEC from the Left during his time as Leader of the Opposition, but can we still assume he has control of it now when the opponent is a soft left candidate like Burnham and Starmer is such a terrible PM? How loyalist to him personally are they?

Haha I thought about Miliband when I wrote this. He would be a better PM and there would be a coherent policy stance. He sadly wasn’t up to it in the television era of politics, but his social media game is pretty decent!

It was also very common to be prime minister on more than one occasion. For whatever reason Harold Wilson was the last. I would have Major, Blair or Brown back given the crop of likely successors to Starmer.