It turns out that Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s pin-up Prime Minister, is human after all. A politician who smiles through earthquakes – literally laughing in the face of adversity – has had to resort to the kind of action normally the preserve of mere-mortal politicians when they encounter a problem they don’t think they can […]
As the news broke that Wuhan, a city marginally larger than London, was being put into an effective lockdown to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, a man called Jack stopped whatever he was doing at the gym to ring my LBC show. Jack was incandescent – as much as anyone who’s called into a radio […]
“In his victory speech yesterday, Boris Johnson talked a lot about “energy”. In many of the congratulatory messages from MPs, well-wishers and party activists, it is regularly mentioned as a positive attribute. It’s not hard to see why. One of the complaints made about Theresa May was that there was not enough “Action this Day”. […]
When Donald Trump first entered the White House, we in Number 10 received a degree of flak for not being higher on his call sheet. Column inches about the state of the “special relationship” grew and the narrative of “snub” took hold, only to increase when it seemed that Trump considered it a more important […]
