You might enjoy something I wrote about this, when Marianne Faithfull died, and how I accidentally saw her and a range of icons for £20 at a time when I survived on mung beans and lived in a house with no windows downstairs
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Cutting public spending to reduce national debt and lower taxes is it. IS IT?

Dying at Badenoch relaunching the Tory Party with a policy disaster from 2010

One more thought - one of the issues with the whole story in the first place is that the hacking scandal felt very unreal and distant until we learnt what happened to the Dowler family. And the drama suffers from that too. Which is not to deny the harm done to people like Sienna Miller is horrendous

I know why they did it this way - goes back to what I said before. It’s hard to dramatise a journalistic investigation. It needs the fourth wall breaking narration to make sense of it all.

But as a drama to provoke empathy & outrage… it inhibits that because you’re distracted by the style.

I can understand why The Hack has not sparked a public response like the post office ITV drama did. It’s too stylised, too much fourth wall breaking, why the mariachi band?

The Morgan/cop storyline feels authentic and human, in the way the Horizon tv series did. The journalism storyline not so much

Ooh I need to add you to my starter pack too

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Added you to my starter pack

After having nightmares last night due to reading Martha Gellhorn can I get some recommendations for big plotty meaty but escapist (not fantasy) novels?

In the vein of Cazalets or Neapolitan or Mantel - character and plot driven where you lose yourself in the reading.

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Yes, I was about to say the same:

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Innit!!!

He’s so angry!! How can he possibly be so angry about confusing two Gavins?

Tbf some of us have been on this story for years

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Great to see conditions & profits getting more coverage and more awareness across the board 💪

I’d def recommend subscribing to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social’s substack - Abortion Every Day -.i struggle to keep on top of every outrage and attack, and it’s my speciality! She catalogued it all.

For the second night in a row, Kharkiv is under massive russian attack!

20 explosions reported in the city!

💔 A Ukrainian soldier returned home from the front to lay flowers where his 15-year-old daughter was killed by a Russian missile.

Bring back gunging - aww genuinely loved this.

Top scoop from @annaisaac

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Ooh I have a lot of thoughts on this!

Reform showing their colours on Ukraine yet again

Also how has ITVX crashed three times before the end of ep1?