Cameron Clark
@cameronclark
Premature geriatric Former journo & audience guy, now solicitor
Striking here, again, to see the Prime Minister call out specific publications by name for critique Between this, the behaviour of his spokesperson and the whole Chancellor situation, you do get the sense that Burnham is much more instinctively hostile to legacy media
I was perusing Fahnbulleh's Wikipedia page (as one does), and I quite enjoy that her husband is referred to as simply 'Graham'
So you’re: A) criticising the government less than 24 hours after departing your role B) admitting you didn’t fund a major policy proposal And you think this makes you look… good?
Badenoch is (correctly) critiqued for listening to social media too much, but she's also clearly influenced by traditional right-wing media too - an information stream which is *significantly* out of step with the British public
A core issue for the Conservatives here is that their remaining supporters, be that donors or sympathetic media outlets, are by-and-large climate sceptics On both a policy and comms front, the Tories are being killed with kindness
It's worth recalling, if this is the direction things go in, that Farage has been essentially absent from his constituency due to 'security concerns' and that the current scandal revolves around him claiming all these funds were used for 'security' It's quite easy to attack that in an election
As @stephenkb.bsky.social points out this morning, the questions around both Burnham's policy positions and political views feel oddly reminiscent of Starmer's, pre-election Does he hold material positions, and is choosing to be evasive about them - or is he another empty suit?
I need someone with an Economist sub to do a compare-&-contrast of these two pieces
A really clear example how UK newsrooms have cooked their brains on X with US political discourse: We don’t use ‘DEI’ in the UK. It’s ‘EDI’ or, in more common corporate parlance, just referred to as ‘Diversity’
Not too happy that the Governor of the Bank of England might subvert the Will of the People™️ when it comes to these bank notes
In fairness to him, Starmer's comments at PMQs were respectable - and better than usual. I just fear it's not enough, and won't be followed by meaningful action
Top work as always by @londoncentric.media If Lime are looking to get regulated further, they’re going the right way about it
This Mandelson/McFadden exchange is an interesting read, in that Mandelson does correctly diagnose a lot of the issues with the current gov (lack of direction, stakeholders feeling ignored, Ministers who can't deliver)
The SC themselves went to great lengths, at numerous points throughout their ruling, to make it clear that this was a judgement on how two pieces of legislation interacted, and should not be taken as a policy - or social - prescription
With the exception of PR, there's not a lot new here. Politicians have been saying the below for nearly 10 years now It's not enough to keep diagnosing, you do actually have to put forward solutions
While I admire the ingenuity here, I'm not sure HMRC are the sort of people that you want to try a "well technically..." on