Tim Maynard

There’s so much for the Lib Dems to run with at the moment. Why this..?

Matthew Syed’s curious use of the phrase ‘found myself nodding’ over the years

Matthew Syed does seem to do a lot of nodding. Leaving aside the nonsense of his position, it is a jarring phrase he has used several times over the years to clunkily move his argument along. This is why he’s paid the big bucks..

And there remain 23 Lords Spiritual. Which is eccentric..

I was on a national express once where a guy was on the phone to his girlfriend, and he dumped her live on air, audibly explaining all the reasons why. Shortly after we pulled into a services for a break and there she was to continue the discussion in person. Such high drama

Bin Tudor tonight. No need to wait until Liverpool. Give a replacement a bit longer to work with the players. Spurs should recognise that Tudor is simply the worst man manager for the crisis they are in.

The Trump lawsuit against the BBC cites a ‘deceptive act’…

Somewhere in there he’ll watch some street cricket

It was as if directed solely at Chris Mason’s latest article..

Listening to Balls&Osborne a while ago, clear how Balls much harder on immigration than Osborne. Partly driven by Balls’s constituency but an example of how immigration isn’t cut cleanly across left&right. Also consider Blair&co’s immigration ‘brainstorm’ in office: hardline by today’s standards

It’s pretty abject, and I wonder if it instead convinced some previously wavering MPs to pull their support

‘George Galloway got them over the line’ is completely risible

Completely agree. Additionally, if she is making a leadership move, she really needs to wait until the tax investigation concludes. If still hanging over her while she’s running the right wing media in particular will have a field day, to the detriment of the party, and by extension the country

On your show recently Libby Purves described Kruger as ‘sane and principled’. Is it worth exploring what leads right wing observers to maintain this stance; perhaps politeness and eloquence masking sinister comments continually showing him as a figure that would willingly take our society backwards

Clearly scripted by someone else, but most politicians’ speeches are? And clinging to the lectern, surely just his presentation style. As much as we might wish for him to cling to it like a walking frame I’m not sure this is confirmation of it..

As Osborne said on his podcast, had Johnson lost Uxbridge in 2019, Kruger would have stood aside in Devizes to let Johnson take it in a by-election. Does Kruger consider his idol to be similarly ‘unregulated?’

Surely this risk being disastrous for the ECB. When seeking investors, they stressed the need for reputational due diligence, and the importance for investors to be aligned with ECB values…

On @hugorifkind.bsky.social show recently Libby Purves described Kruger as ‘sane and principled’. I wonder if Hugo can ask her what leads right wing observers to maintain this stance, when Kruger’s sinister comments continually show him as a figure that would willingly take our society backwards

For many right wing observers, Kruger’s eloquence and politeness means many of his (I consider) dangerous views do not meet required scrutiny. Libby Purves described him last week as ‘sane and principled’ whereas to many his comments are often quite sinister.

Ah, was reading post as in indoor history, thought it was slim!

+Colin Jackson

Reading the book at the moment. Parts of it were dismissed on publication as being rumour and outlandish, whereas now… well it holds up..

My favourite though is Ronhill running wear, founded by a bloke called.. Ron Hill

Kenneth Maynard Wood, related to Maynard’s wine gums. I only discovered the Kenwood link 18 months ago and I’m distantly related…

It’s always casually used on the BBC. A throwaway line from Nick Robinson when there’s so much evidence to the contrary

Scrutiny of Ridley is long overdue but he is not stupid. His mask of intellect misuses data to make arguments that suit right wing lobbying and think tank influence. His output is a symptom of collaboration that runs behind the scenes of shires and think tanks and has lacked scrutiny for too long

I think the thread is how social media exacerbates those in vulnerable periods. Clearly the case with younger people, &where too much of an onus has been on parents to safeguard. But people go through vulnerable periods throughout their life, and in extreme scenarios can lead to radicalisation

Yusuf just now went on about the Boriswave. But many of his now colleagues: Kruger, Zahawi, Jenkyns, Dorries et al still idolise the man. There has to be a ceiling both in terms of disconnect with voters and, in time, operationally

I think they’ve moved beyond Strauss. Someone with better links to counties would be ideal. Fundamentally though Key has proved ill suited to the role, regardless of who they bring in.

350m was a deliberate electoral choice designed to misinform, JR was lazily misinformed on the record. But for public figures stepping into issues of such sensitivity accuracy should be paramount. It’s not enough to just say ‘but the thrust of the argument needs to be considered’.

Someone should ask what adidas thinks of it, considering their focus on teamwork and inclusion