This is an excellent bit of work by Dr David Jeffery. If you (like me) are interested in Benjamin Disraeli, Tory Democracy or One Nation Conservatism do read this 👇 journals.openedition.org/cve/15476

A lot of political energy will be spent on leaving the ECHR - but Greece and Poland show we can reduce immigration without leaving 👇🏻 What Reform could learn from Greece @UnHerd unherd.com/2025/08/what-r…

We're being bled dry.

Tempted to tweet something vaguely outrageous so I get arrested when I get back from Spain and don't have to prep my lectures for semester 1. Ps. The Graham Linehan 🎗️ arrest is a joke and heads should roll.

Fundamentally, Kim Johnson is just not very clever. 62% of the vote though.

All Burley can do is play the gender card - we are failed by our media class.

These people are bonkers.

I'm a big GIMP fan myself.

The Reform Party conference was a performatively weird freak show featuring two of the worst Tory MPs & ministers from 2019-24. Apparently Zia Yusuf is a maniac & I suspect Farage semi-consciously doesn't want to be PM either. Very similar to Boris Johnson in 2016.

Paula Barker is interesting because she's rumoured to have voted leave.

Labour HQ: Here's the line to take. The News Agents: Yes sir, right away sir! The Audience: Wow, such brilliant free-thinking commentary!

Lord Randolph Churchill on Disraeli's career: Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete triumph. Via Andrew Gimson

Clive Lewis went OTT a long time ago.

He has the critical thinking skills of a gnat.

Hola comrades ✊🏼

When you realise he could have sent this about the Palestine protests anytime over the last 2 years but hasn’t because his party are terrified of upsetting them. This is radicalising me more than anything else.

Journo being told what to say? Shocker.