Does colour-coding your books make you organised – or a superficial illiterate?
When I saw the other day that Liz Truss, the worst prime minister in the history of this or any other planet, organises the books on her bookshelves by colour, a sinking feeling hit me. I colour-code the books in our front room. I even colour-code the recipe books in our kitchen. What does this make me? I don’t want to exist in the same country as Truss, let alone in the same boat. Am I as deeply uncool as that gormless charisma vacuum? As out of touch as a woman who lost an election to a rotting head...
The Kamala Harris playbook has already worked in Britain. But the ‘Special Relationship’ is getting more complicated
A former prosecutor takes over a political party in turmoil, promises to turn the page on an era of political chaos, and surges to an election victory that once seemed unthinkable.
Keir Starmer warns the UK budget this week will reflect 'harsh' economic reality
Fixing Britain's troubled economy will be a long haul in a “harsh” fiscal environment, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, setting the stage for his government's high-stakes first budget this week.Starmer hopes voters will accept his argument that higher taxes and limited public spending increases are needed to “fix the foundations” of an economy that he says has been undermined by 14 years of Conservative government. But his message — things will slowly get better — is a risky one in a high-speed political world.“It’s time to embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality,” Starmer said, telling voters...
Liz Truss’ think tank publicly shames Kemi Badenoch for not answering questions
Liz Truss’ think tank Popular Conservatism has publicly shamed Kemi Badenoch for failing to answer 12 questions it sent to her and Tory leadership rival Robert Jenrick.With Tory members set to choose the replacement for Rishi Sunak, the think tank also known as Popcon and launched by Ms Truss last year, put out the replies it got for each question.For each question under Ms Badenoch they put: “No response received”.Director Mark Littlewood told The Independent: “I’m perplexed, to be honest. We really wanted her content. The PopCon database is split about equally between her and Robert. We were pretty...