Lewis Goodall

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

The bullet train in 🇯🇵-as glorious as everyone says. A reminder the Japanese built their first high speed train for the 1964 Olympics and it became national by the 80s. They’re now building Maglevs (floating trains). Meanwhile in 🇬🇧 we can’t be sure we’ll connect HS2 to Euston. Pathetic.

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Get your questions in 👇👇👇

There was a time Starmer/Reeves could made the argument to raise income taxes and VAT. There was even a moment they could have made the argument to break their manifesto pledge. It’s far too late. Now it would spell disaster for them and for politics. My latest👇 open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Keir Starmer repeatedly refuses to say whether or not he intends to stick to Labour’s manifesto pledges on income tax, NI and VAT.

NEW: Police have arrested Hadesh Kebatu, the Epping sex offender, in Finsbury Park.

NEW: Lucy Powell wins the Deputy Leadership race, albeit by a closer margin than anticipated. Another fresh blow for Keir Starmer- who now has as his deputy someone he dismissed from his cabinet, only weeks ago.

The uproar from conservatives, Fox etc if Obama or Biden had unilaterally (and possibly illegally) tore down a near century old part of the White House, to replace with a ballroom, would (rightly) have been endless. Historic level vandalism.

Thrilled to be nominated for Scoop of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for the Afghan data leak story and superinjunction. Testament to the fantastic team @newsagents.bsky.social and @globalplayer.com.

This was fun. Friday News Agents with @zackpolanski.bsky.social Extended conversation on his political journey, his politics, and where it might yet take him. Out at 5pm.

Nice enough review in The Times for Coining It. I do wonder whether they would describe me as “unnervingly confident” if I were an Old Etonian though.

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.