🪐New from me 🪐 The Saturn Campaign.
Much like the famous Goya painting, Rishi Sunak's campaign is unsubtle and in your face, at least when it comes to how it approaches our generational divides. But I suspect that saying the quiet part out loud will backfire. Quick 🧵 1/n

Labour outspent the Conservatives £10:£1 on Google/YouTube ads in the first 36hrs of the campaign.

.Rishi Sunak The Zoological Society of London Bill would ensure we can continue to protect nature. It's nearly completed its passage through Parliament. It can pass with your support. Don't miss this opportunity to support British science and conservation please support our bill.

Who are the civil servants running Whitehall? What is their educational background & previous experience? How are they managed & how much are they paid? Our *new report* sheds light on these questions & more...

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/wh…

Out today in paperback: JOHNSON AT 10: THE INSIDE STORY by Sir Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell

This instant Sunday Times bestseller is a gripping behind-the-scenes work of contemporary history, mapping Johnson's time in power from start to finish.

Published by Atlantic Books

[NEW] No.10, Cabinet Office and Treasury are not institutions capable of meeting the challenges facing the UK in the 2020s and beyond.

📺Watch as Hannah White and Sir Anthony Seldon outline our seven recommendations to fix the centre of government instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/po…

Our Centre Commission report is live - you can read it here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/po…

Our seven key proposals:

'Excellent... eye-opening' The Times
'Detailed and damning' Financial Times

His time in Number 10 may have ended, but his impact lives on.

The unmissable #JohnsonAt10 Sir Anthony Seldon Raymond Newell is out in paperback this April.

Pre-order:
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Gordon Brown asked by Sky on whether he will do a Cameron-style comeback: “I’m too old to be a British politician and too young to be an American politician.”

I am once again asking for aides to stop reading Caro and watching The West Wing

Perhaps too late but here comes a thread on what we thought went wrong with Covid decision making - in Sunak's Treasury and elsewhere - because it seems v poorly understood.

A good pandemic policy is not one that pits health vs economy - it is not a simple tradeoff...

Don’t be fooled by Boris the bamboozler – he will be ready for his star Covid inquiry turn

Sir Anthony Seldon

independent.co.uk/voices/boris-j… #borisjohnson #CovidInquiry

Looking forward to politics students in 15 years stumbling across old Newsnight and This Week clips, and marvelling at how good political programming was back in the day

“compulsively readable and well-sourced… while they are judicious historians, they aren’t too haughty for a ripping yarn”

JOHNSON AT 10 by Sir Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell is one of The Times and The Sunday Times’ best politics & current affairs books of 2023

thetimes.co.uk/article/best-p…

Brilliant to see Northbank authors highlighted in Waterstones' best politics books of 2023. Both are essential reading:

JOHNSON AT 10 by Sir Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell (published by Atlantic Books)

DEATH IN THE BLOOD by caroline wheeler (published by Headline Books)

Gripped by the Covid Inquiry?

Discover what really went on behind closed doors at Number 10 in #JohnsonAt10 by Sir Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, out now.

Waterstones: tidd.ly/3FFj695
Amazon: amzn.to/3QIkcar

Great to see Johnson at 10 make the FT's best books of 2023 ft.com/content/50d14e…

Gripped by the Covid Inquiry?

Discover what really went on behind closed doors at Number 10 in #JohnsonAt10 by Sir Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, out now.

Waterstones: tidd.ly/3FFj695
Amazon: amzn.to/3QIkcar

Gripped by the Covid Inquiry?

Discover what really went on behind closed doors at Number 10 in #JohnsonAt10 by Sir Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, out now.

Waterstones:
tidd.ly/3FFj695
Amazon:
amzn.to/3QIkcar

Spoke to Joe Bambridge about new AI polling from Stack Data Strategy and Hanbury Strategy ⬇️

Majority of public want a safety-first approach, backing up the work of Ian Hogarth & Frontier AI Taskforce. And there is significant effort needed to build trust - just 24% optimistic about AI.