Stephen Bush

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Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

What's the most stupid movie reference you have to stop yourself saying regularly? Mine is not replying to "Can I be frank?" with "Okay, Frank. Can I be Bullwinkle".

The core problem for Starmer is that what made him Labour leader and prime minister was his ability to judge what the audience in front of him wanted to hear - to work out which narrative would get him to the next step on the board. But you can't run a country on storytelling.

What's particularly strange about is that her academic and professional record is not successful. I understand Keir Starmer's blindspots about the importance of cultivating MPs and managing the inner life of the Labour party: he was an incredibly successful lawyer! What's her excuse?

Labour needs a culture secretary.

NL being incredibly graceful under pressure here!

There's only one GOAT.

A lot that is positive about this, not least that the government appears to be thinking in a five-year cycle for the first time:

Frankly a crazy amount of editorialising in this write-up.

“What a wonderful plant pot - he’s so violent!”

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It’s Brexit accelerating the normal pace of political careers. In the universe where Theresa May becomes prime minister in 2020, Badenoch is a 2020 intake MP getting her first minister of state job in the 2024 reshuffle.