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Nobody ever says thank you – or do they? (opens the original)
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I know, I know, it’s not Friday – but it is still the weekend. And it is August. So no, I won’t apologise. Not least because Brian Clough wouldn’t. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
Wools and the social care theory of everything (opens the original)
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Good morning. Is publication on a Friday evening more or less of a betrayal of the timing originally promised for this weekly notebook than a Saturday morning? No comment. Anyway…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wy4I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
Such a thing as Starmerism? (opens the original)
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Good morning. Three weeks and a day ago I promised you a notebook on my reading and writing every Friday morning. It didn’t take me long to break that contract, but hey – at least I tried. And in politics, being seen to try is nowadays more than half the battle. That’s something Andy Burnham told me last weekend. He knows the policies he has announced since taking office on Monday won’t provide “overnight” solutions to the cost of living crisis. “But you’ve got to
Burnham and me (opens the original)
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For this morning’s Times I interviewed Andy Burnham on his last afternoon of freedom. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="461" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tmMH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progr
Northern discomfort (opens the original)
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Good morning. I spent the half of this week I wasn’t deluding myself that England were going to win the World Cup much as you’d expect: talking, thinking and writing about what Andy Burnham’s accession to the leadership of the Labour Party later this morning means for everyone else in it, and the country. To that end I interviewed his old mentor and firm friend, David Blunkett, for tomorrow’s Times. James Purnell has described Burnham as a “Blunkettite”, but the man himself modestly demurs. You’
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