We have become a party for whom the grotesque is the primary mode of communication. Just to reiterate, I’m not talking about policy or principle here, but a predilection for the odd and off-putting in presentation.
We hurl abuse at here-today-gone-tomorrow politicians and their advisers, while the permanent state flourishes like a green bay tree.
Abolishing IHT would look extraordinarily out of touch to those struggling to pay their bills or worried about the state of the public services – and would undermine any claim to fiscal responsibility.
The MP for Blackpool South – for now – is the 15th MP sitting as an independent. That’s more than the Liberal Democrats.
Allowing Matt Hancock to jet off to imaginary South Korean firms – or to eat very real kangaroo testicles down in Oz – is the price one pays for half-decent representatives.
By publishing the Lockdown Files, Isabel Oakshott’s has exposed the complicity of much of our media class in the mishandling of the pandemic.
What these messages reveal – if we needed telling – is that politicians and scientists were overwhelmed by a crisis for which they were unprepared and did not understand.
The former Health Secretary, and newfound star of reality TV, seems oblivious to the air of bogusness which hangs over so many of his claims.
Starmer kept his questions short, relaxing into the role of a prosecutor who is confident of obtaining a guilty verdict.
As long as he donates his fee to charity, there is much to enjoy in the former Health Secretary eating a kangaroo’s penis in front of millions.
The former Health Secretary adds that the PM needs to “stop slagging off institutions that are the bedrock of prosperity.”
‘Let their frail elderly be unvisited in care homes. Let their weddings be postponed’, is the message of this Prime Minister.
It’s sticks and carrots from the Health Secretary as he attempts to boost face-to-face surgery appoinments.
In the debate about face-to-face appointments, it gets forgotten that some patients prefer video and telephone consultations.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.