1. The Pointlessness of Plotting
2. Left Wing Ruthlessness
3. On Tory Pearl Clutching
4. Reinventing Toryism
5. Zombie Government
What a month. Doing the business in October was my analysis of the likely aftermath facing any successor of Liz Truss. No matter what the plotting, the divisions in the Tory party weren't about to go anywhere. In a rare (these days) post on the Labour Party, we had a butchers at Sam Tarry's deselection and argued that what the left counts as ruthlessness has to be different from the right's adminstrative shenanigans, otherwise it'll be self-defeating. Third up, we took apart a favoured rhetorical ruse the Tories often employ to make themselves look like the victims, and the fourth post was a gaze into the far future: are there signs among the current crisis suggestive of a strategy to overcome their long-term decline? And bringing up the rear is something of what is now a period piece: the paralysis of government under the about-to-be-toppled Liz Truss.
What's serving in the second chance saloon? Here's a couple. One on the current commentariat crusade against members having a say on who their party leaders should be. And then we have another media vendetta against Suella Braverman. Why have the press got it in for her?
Coming up this month will be some Labour Party stuff I've been saving up, a long gestating piece on Brexit, and after much promising my review of Mike Phipps's Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow. If you haven't already, don't forget to follow the free weekly newsletter, and if you like what I do (and you're not skint), you can help support the blog too! Following me on Twitter and Facebook are cost-free ways of showing your backing for this corner of the internet.
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