What a remarkable man he was. And he has a lovely museum.

Shortly, Rachel Reeves is going to take more money from you. This is because she messed up.   Conservatives left office with an economy badly beaten by the pandemic, but on the up. It’s taken Labour less than a year to completely derail it.

Very sorry indeed to see that Charles Guthrie has died. A great man. Obituary: Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank thetimes.com/article/bb5bef…

One important thing to remember. Today’s recognition is nothing to do with diplomacy, security or even morality. It is solely about the electoral and internal priorities of the Labour Party.

Wow

The £700k donation cover-up: Starmer’s right-hand man caught red-handed. The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff has been caught covering up £700,000 in secret donations used to install Starmer as Labour leader. This isn’t just bad judgement – it’s a potential crime. I’ve called

Roger Scruton, before the election of 1997, on how Blair would make Britain worse and turn it into a different country. The prescience is pretty astonishing, and demonstrates that Scruton wasn't just the Paddington Bear of safe consrvatism.

My letter in Financial Times today, on the lack in the US of the concept of an official opposition: "This makes it all but impossible for US voters to have an idea in advance of what an alternative government would look like before they come to vote for a president." ft.com/content/e802d2…

"Inside a 21st Century University": Thrilled to report that our new specialist tech and engineering university project NMITE New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford is the subject of a major profile in NATURE. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The central contradiction explained in four sentences.

This is spot on.

Greatly looking forward to this!

A bit of global context to open our brilliant new Hereford Military History Festival Hereford Military History Festival! Tomorrow, 1 pm, in the Cathedral

Very good to see Steve Reed pulling a pint of Hereford's own legendary Butty Bach! Talk about giving power to the people... Wye Valley Brewery

I've always loved the joke that introduces Lilith in Cheers. Woody Harrelson's comedic timing is underrated.

It's an utterly damning record. It doesn't even include the NI raise on working people. And it's after just one year in office.

Thank you! A really good event, thanks to a great panel. Hereford Military History Festival off to a brilliant start.

Arguably the greatest living English poet dies and there is no mention of it on the BBC website

IfG at the Conservative Party Conference | How should governments rewire the state to get things done? Join us in Manchester! With Jesse Norman, Caroline Elsom, Eve Norridge Onward, Hannah White, Alex Thomas instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-cons…

And let's not forget his magnificent reworking of The Oresteia. Perhaps time for a new edition?