Ian Dunt
@iandunt
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Jenrick is an idiot sandwich. Read all about it. iandunt.substack.com/p/jenrick-is...
This would be a very good move. I'm a recent convert to mandatory voting and increasingly messianic about it open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Burnham Week One: This is what a professional political operation looks like iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-we...
Many progressives have embraced despair and it doesn't do them a damn bit of good www.arguably.uk/p/the-left-s...
So rare that someone treats political parties with the suspicion they richly deserve, but @mikebraddick.bsky.social does it here. Particularly like this dry opening paragraph open.substack.com/pub/jlefsgho...
In just its first two days, we've seen a government is vastly more politically astute than its predecessor inews.co.uk/opinion/burn...
Reshuffle latest: Lots of good stuff and one really bad fucking thing open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing iandunt.substack.com/p/football-e...
Quick take on Starmer's last PMQs, in which Kemi Badenoch did a short-lived impression of a normal human being inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
Fraction's Batman is fresh, modern, super-confident, an unimprovable delight. Haven't read a Batman comic this good since King, or even Morrison, which is really the highest praise.
Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...
Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
This is the single greatest opportunity for constitutional reform in our lifetime. One of ours is about to get into Downing Street. That never happens. iandunt.substack.com/p/finally-so...
Ignore all the hysterical tabloid bullshit. Ed Miliband is a good choice for chancellor inews.co.uk/opinion/ever...
It's great, with lots to be excited about and lots to be worried about. This is a particularly striking observation.
The absence at the heart of the Starmer project was simple and profound open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...
Hot day. Hungover. Got lots of work to do. This is how I'll be spending the next two hours. God bless British trains, man, they'll never cease to screw you over. Just utterly committed to the bit.
Seemingly pretty tiny group of micro-dick fascists holding a demo in Birmingham. All around them, a beautiful diverse city ignores them or laughs at them.
Macron is such a mischievous little bitch he knew exactly what he was doing. I love him.
Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
GOOD MORNING. Andy Burnham has triumphed in Makerfield. Nigel Farage has been brutally humiliated. The sun is shining and the world is a beautiful place iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...
Win or lose, Burnham has proved an extremely impressive politician during this byelection. He crackles with self-confidence and dynamism inews.co.uk/opinion/burn...
Who wins as a result of the EHRC trans code? Nobody. Nobody at all. None of this has any meaning whatsoever. It is just a needless act of administrative bother and political self-harm. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...