Besides going to fee-paying school, the most disproportionate skew between Lobby journalists and the general public must be how much more the Lobby love cricket as a sport.

Begs the questions:
1/ Why does Christ Church college, Oxford, specifically produce so many Prime Ministers, out of all the Oxford colleges?
2/ Why does Cambridge University produce so few Prime Ministers compared relatively to Oxford?

Always interesting to read George Monbiot's self-published Register of Interests as a gauge on how much/little journalists/authors can potentially earn: monbiot.com/registry-of-in…

If English national government is just 'a health service with nukes attached' (h/t Duncan Robinson) then English local government is basically just a care service with bin wagons attached.

This 'I'm resigning but staying on until my successor has been chosen' schtick needs to be called out and scrutinised more. Becoming too common in UK politics.

End result is no set departure date and a 'farewell' tour where millions £ are wasted on securing politicians 'legacy'.

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I think it's also underappreciated by commentators who have only properly started following Scottish politics since 2014 that the current division and rancour in the SNP is very much a reversion to the mean for the party and it was infact the past decade that was the exception.

Swinney rules himself out of leadership saying he’s been around too long and that fresh talent should come forward. A year ago.

I like how the FT's Simeon Kerr went from covering/reporting on one petrostate in the UAE to another petrostate in Scotland 😏