I worry that the Left has stopped making the argument for a more expansive state funded by most people paying more tax. Instead we're left with the false claim that Other People will always pay.

And there's a symmetrical problem on the Right: very few people argue for tax cuts funded by specified spending cuts. Instead we're left with false claims about "efficiency savings".

Daily Record report of Robbie Williams having stayed at Gleneagles a favourite of Prince William and Princess Kate, John Travolta, Oasis and Sir Sean Connery, 'when he was alive of course.' dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/…

So good to listen to the colossus Gordon Brown this morning. A brilliant man and mind. #r4today

Gordon Brown proposes lifting the two-child limit to deal with one of the most egregious outcomes of austerity - child poverty. To fund lifting the cap, he argues the betting industry remains unfairly undertaxed - and says it's time to change that. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So Liam Gallagher says Edinburgh festivals are a place for "people who swallow swords" and perform "poor magic tricks". Would not recognise culture of any sort if it jumped up and bit him bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sounds familiar… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

And which paper has been in the forefront of the charge against the shoddy standards at the BBC? 🤔 Not splicing two bits of comment together, instead making the quote up entirely 🤷🏻‍♂️

Analysis of the legal position, from Bloomberg 🔽🎁 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Boris Johnson showered honours, jobs, gongs and hope of gongs upon his craven, corrupt gang in the media and they will support him as he is criticised in the Covid inquiry… and… in turn… he will support them as they plot against the BBC. He is right now. It stinks. But we can

Johnson, Sunak and Cummings. Ignored the science. Utter contempt for their citizens. Should face a lifetime ban from any sort of public office.

“Six days after I sent the memo to OfCom, DCMS, there it was in the Telegraph.” Michael Prescott strongly suggests he didn’t leak it to the paper. Hmmm. Who did, then?

The coup at the BBC wasn't "in the boardroom" it purposely and brilliantly created and then used intense media to bring the President into a crisis that undermined the corporation AND the board. Tim Davie went as he lost confidence in the board, a reversal of the natural order

bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cz… Ouch!

I was at his third lecture in Edinburgh. He is excellent.

Watching all the brickbats being thrown to pull this Govt off course shows quite how desperate the MSM and opposition are that they do not succeed in reducing the inequality in this Country. I don’t agree with everything but they are on balance the best chance this Country has.

The BBC has its flaws but it remains a great cherished national institution. Shame on Tice, Kruger and the Reform leadership that they side with Trump and his absurd lawsuit against the BBC. Reform is literally traitorous - today’s insidious incarnation of Lord Haw-Haw

Happy 80th Birthday, Max Hastings…. And he celebrates with a superb column in The Times.

Sounds like there is legislation capable of sending the owner of X and Grok to prison for being pervs. ⁦Elon Musk⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: In just 45 seconds, Laura Rutledge wrapped up her sideline interviews at the Sugar Bowl, sprinted across the entire field, and then hosted the halftime show. People don't realize what it takes to be at this level of the media.