Sorry to brag, but The Spectator World’s end-of-year cover was bang on the money …

Keir Starmer: the beginning of the end. Times column on where this leaves us, and how we got here thetimes.com/comment/column…

Olly Robbins is quite right to think of the welfare of FCDO staff, esp all those serving in the US network. They have plenty to cope with in this disordered world without the political storm around the man who was given the privilege of leading them. politico.eu/article/uk-dip…

A masterful and brutal column from Patrick Maguire, a chronicler of the Starmer project who today sounds its death knell. Here are the closing lines.

British values. Firm but fair!

Vernon Bogdanor, The Times

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"Serial rail fare evader fined £3,600 over 112 unpaid tickets" is the headline. At around £30 per trip, that's a pretty good deal But you read the story, and it's a guy that's been homeless for three years, sleeping rough on trains, in hospitals and in libraries. He's been

The Wormald affair reflects something I was stewing on in government. When Labour came to power in the 1960s it did so not only with a healthy suspicion but a compelling critique of the state. To push through what was, at least at the outset, conceived of as a radical program,

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields.

Imagine watching Schindler's List and your takeaway is that you should participate in the next genocide you see

This was in Private Eye Magazine no.1668 Interesting.

Graduate jobs fall by a quarter in ‘worst market for 13 years’ thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

EXCL: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into Antonia Romeo, the new head of the civil service. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

That Wimbledon, Richmond, Twickenham, Windsor, Teddington, Hampton side of London (greater) is perfect. The sunny weather really reveals it. It has the perfect suburban feel with proximity to city life