There'll be lots of far-right euphoria today. But let's be clear: Trump's only real victory is managing to maintain a consistently loyal base. In terms of policy success, he is limited by his lack of intelligence, understanding, consistency and organisational skills. He failed to achieve in office.

Nailed it

I fear there is deep truth here.

I have deleted my X/Twitter account. I urge others to do the same.

It can no longer pretend to be anything other than a danger and harm to our democracy. My full statement is below:

My unpopular opinion is that the government is doing a lot. Most of it is good, some of it is very good, and some of it is not good at all. It has a narrative and a sense of moral purpose - to defeat populism through competence and service. It has an ideology, which is left technocrat.

🧵Musk & Tommy Robinson sum up the fundamental challenge Reform may have moving from a 15% party to a 30% one. In August just 11% of Brits said they had a positive view of Tommy Robinson. Embracing his cause seems likely to be an anathema to electoral success

really quite apoplectic about all the mainstream Tory figures in Britain who backed Musk essentially as a way to own the libs and who will now suffer no consequences from staying silent as their ally behaves like a fascist, and a direct danger to senior female politicians

At some point someone in the British government has to hit back at Musk. If he was just some rich guy, fine - whatever. Enjoy your drugs. But he is a leading figure in the incoming US administration. Is our policy now that foreign governments can speak this way about us without any consequence?

This is a very silly headline with a v narrow constituency outside the media classes. Seems esp weird for MoS (quite a shrill pro-Remain voice in 2016) to object in such an OTT voice to closer UK-EU post-Brexit links beyond Windsor within Starmer's red lines (no single market, customs union, FoM)