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I’m in today’s Telegraph on the risk that the junior doctors in the BMA overplay their hand telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/3…

I chat with Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman about the latest lay of the land in the Tory leadership contest. Is Robert Jenrick fast becoming a rightwing favourite? 🎙️ spectator.co.uk/podcast/could-…

I’ve reviewed a surprisingly great book on synchronised swimming in the latest Spectator. One of those reads that leaves you telling other people all sorts of new facts spectator.co.uk/article/does-a…

I realise that not *all* my politics followers will care about this but I am SO STOKED that Richard has found an orchid so rare no one has found one since 2009. THE GHOST ORCHID.

I had the really difficult, unpleasant, job of wandering around the new Piet Oudolf landscape at RHS Garden Wisley for the latest Spectator. My review here spectator.co.uk/article/immers…

I’m in today’s Observer with a column on Labour and welfare - ‘the bucket into which all the failures of other departments are poured’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In the i paper this weekend on Labour and the unions inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

I’m in today’s Sun writing about Labour, immigration, and sphinxes thesun.co.uk/news/29948095/…

My column in this weekend’s i paper is on the nasty shock that Labour will get this autumn inews.co.uk/opinion/rachel…

In today’s Observer, I’ve looked at whether the Tory leadership contest is going to solve the party’s problems theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Is the row about the winter fuel payment getting too much for Labour? spectator.co.uk/article/are-la…

Love the cartoon accompanying my column in today’s Sun thesun.co.uk/news/30083611/…

Oh this is so sad! Like loads of other journalists, I owe my career to Highbury and gutted it has lost out to more prestigious courses which cost students £££ more then get them into the same jobs anyway (and without the proper shoe leather patch work they taught at Highbury)

More here on the big announcement from David Lammy on arms exports to Israel spectator.co.uk/article/david-…

Am I the only person in the world who schedules non essential emails so they don’t arrive with the recipient at the weird time of night when I’m still catching up on admin? Does no one else know about scheduling emails??

PMQs preview spectator.co.uk/article/keir-s…

'Not just institutions, but construction firms, the architects and the cladding manufacturers, many of whom, Sir Martin Moore-Bick's damning report finds, took part in a 'culture of dishonesty.' ✍️ Isabel Hardman

'Keir Starmer made a couple of verbal slips at Prime Minister’s Questions. Both were quite telling. The first was that he repeatedly referred to Rishi Sunak as the ‘Prime Minister’.' ✍️ Isabel Hardman

I’ve reviewed Tony Blair’s new book in the I paper inews.co.uk/culture/books/…