“Just do stuff!”
“Ok, we’re going to raise income tax and use the money to—“
“My focus group has started using a printout of your face as a dartboard.”

The bigger problem is that is Starmer going to wake up tomorrow and go “write, Rach, it’s time for you to introduce a defence and security levy?” No. No he will not.

The decline of school bullying, football hooliganism and pub thuggery are all good things, but they do appear to have produced the most "never been in a fight" generation of academics ever. People used to know what the brink of violence actually looked like.

Includes me exposing the myth that Cambridge somehow earned its way into its leadership position in UK life sciences. It didn't. Leeds was in the lead, and then the Medical Research Council in London picked Cambridge and London as winners because it was their mates.

I have talked about this a number of times, politicians are trying to bring attention to the issue, but it's not getting attention from the media.

They spend too much time covering Reform opening an envelope.

youtu.be/0_UZQZsipoY

Equally though, if we ask ourselves what a centre-right pitch to the actual existing UK’s problems would be: tax reform, co-payment in the NHS, something like May’s dementia tax, scrap the new deal and renters rights bill, more money for local govt scrap the BSA…not sure people would vote for it?