Re national service: Whatever you think of Sunak’s campaign so far, and it clearly hasn’t been optimal, at least he’s trying to address the problems of the new post post-Cold-War-world, Adrian Wooldridge writes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Yes Minister on bringing back national service

Erik ten Hag take a bow. You had buckets thrown at you all week (and all season) but you and Man Utd came good on the day. nice to see the pundits wrong ! #FACUP24

ICYMI Lawrence H. Summers essay is brilliant on the present discontents on American campuses and what academic freedom and purpose means in theory and practice thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

Breaking: Gove jumps ship - name the vessel! Note alan rusbridger reporting in Media Confidential this week that he is rumoured to being lined up to edit Daily Telegraph.

It’s pretty obvious after two days of PR disasters (Soaking, Titanic, Wales and Euros footie) that Sunak’s snap election caught everyone by surprise, including his own minders and campaign team. He/they simply not match fit

Soaked one day, Titanic error the next. There’s no plan. Sunak’s campaign is drowning before our eyes

So GBNews - backed by multi-millionaires - is now suing OfCom for threatening them with a feather duster. The latest episode of Media Confidential with Stewart Purvis predicted this. A compelling listen

Nikki Haley to America: I never meant to be taken literally or seriously

👀 Hard to overstate how dramatic the shift in UK immigration has been since the post-Brexit rules came into force.
Non-EU immigration is now higher than ever before, running at well over a million a year.
EU immigration lower than it’s been for decades.
Figs just in from Office for National Statistics (ONS) 👇

I wonder if Ofcom and the Electoral Commission have got their heads around the role GBNews, an avowedly right wing broadcaster, will have over the election. Stewart Purvis discusses where the row over impartiality is going with Lionel Barber mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

What is Ofcom going to do with right-wing TV channel GB News now we have a general election on 4th July? Will it continue the kid glove approach? alan rusbridger and I ask veteran newsman Stewart Purvis. A must listen for media and political junkies mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcast

Now the general election is set for 4th July, what will Ofcom do about the Tory news channel GB News? And why has Ofcom been so wishy-washy to date? alan rusbridger and I talk to veteran newsman (and ex Ofcom executive) Stewart Purvis A must listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/med…

It never rains, it just pours in Britain. Rishi Sunak, drenched but unbowed, calls general election for 4th July. Things can only get better !

July 4 is THE election date, as per well placed Tory source (not American) and emily m earlier #GE2024

Kelvin - I was working at the Sunday Times at the time and Frank Giles asked Rupert Murdoch what his new title Editor Emeritus meant. “You speak Latin,” replied Rupert “E means out, and Meritus means deservedly so”

Wednesday, May 22, 2024. I never thought I’d live to see this day when Israel’s government rejected a full-fledged offer of peace from Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Arab and Muslim worlds. Wake up Israel! Your government is leading you into ever greater isolation and ruin.

The next Chelsea manager will be the club's 24th (including caretakers) from 2000 onwards — which is more than the number of Popes there have been since 1722.