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Con artists make a great story. It’s not just what they do but the response of those around them who were either fooled by them or enabled them which makes such stories so blackly entertaining. The greater their status or self-importance, the more enjoyable their humbling. It is a story mixing shamelessness, humiliation, denial, digging a big hole to fall into and panic. Why would I lie? Why do those who do – whether it’s plagiarists, fantasists, fraudsters, liars, those…

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When I first read about this I assumed this was a constituency party going rogue but Kemi Badenoch has endorsed the decision to select former Neo Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate. Regretfully her comments makes her commitment against antisemitism look like at best a sick joke & at worst highly partisan. She’s also managed to insult every Tory councillor in the country in the process by saying ‘because [Councillors] only deal with things like “parking and putting out…

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I cannot say I blame punters, I am one of them. TSE

I have never taken drugs but my reaction to the ICM marginals poll in the Autumn of 2007 was what I have imagined taking cocaine felt like as somebody who was laying Labour at the next general election when the betting markets and spreads thought Labour might end up with 400 plus MPs. This poll confirms we are becoming a secular nation despite some politicians trying to co-opt God on their side. TSE

Longstanding readers know why Mike Smithson and myself consider the Ipsos favourability the gold standard, these findings aren’t a surprise given that most new Prime Ministers get a boost on their ascension. There is some good news for Sir Keir Starmer, he’s not as bas as Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, or Rishi Sunak as Ipsos note ‘Outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves office with 22% favourability and 52% unfavourability (net -30), a notable decline from his initial +7 net rating…

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I was reading one of Rishi Sunak’s business columns in the Sunday Times at the weekend and a thought suddenly struck me: could he come back as leader? The columns are very good and he clearly uses his knowledge of how government and Whitehall works, together with his obvious enthusiasm and connections with the AI world, to offer advice to people in business and those ministers now running the government. He obviously still has a strong interest in the intertwined…

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Part of me thinks Andy Burnham might call an early election because once the reality of the government’s economic and financial position meets Prime Minister Andy Burnham then these figure might change once the honeymoon wears off. The next general election could be three months away or it could be three years away, if the figures are like this at the next election then Labour should win. TSE

I have to admit I am surprised by this poll The Times report that Constituency polling by Survation, for Mandate Research, found that Farage could win the seat with as much as 73 per cent of the vote on a very low turnout. However, opposition to Farage has crystallised around support for the joke candidate Count Binface, who is polling at about 20 per cent. In a direct head-to-head between Farage and Binface, support for the Reform leader falls to 69 per cent…

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