Tom McTague @TomMcTague
Political Editor, UnHerd. Host of the podcast These Times (@TheseTimesPod). Formerly of the Atlantic. London Joined August 2008-
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This is wonderful.
Remember all those debates about whether the Coalition’s plan for post-2010 fiscal consolidation to be 80% spending cuts 20% tax rises was wise?
Remember all those debates about whether the Coalition’s plan for post-2010 fiscal consolidation to be 80% spending cuts 20% tax rises was wise?
"I want my children to grow up in a country where the streets are safe, the public space isn't filthy, where it isn't a hassle to get around, you can own your own home and where climate change and the environment aren't an afterthought." —Cameron leadership victory speech, 2005
A lot of what Macron is saying - supend some competition rules, much more industrial policy & nuclear, Buy European rules for defence - will be very hard to sell to many EU countries. This is a very French wishlist speech, not a "this is where the consensus might lie in Europe".
This is, in essence, the same message every French president has ever delivered. Doesn't mean they're wrong, of course.
This is, in essence, the same message every French president has ever delivered. Doesn't mean they're wrong, of course.
@WCSocQuotes @TomMcTague Where my parents lived in Spain, there were quite a lot of working-class German and Dutch people, who behaved in exactly the same way. Their own beers served in their bars, supermarkets selling Dutch cheese or German sausages, etc.
You’d never see a post like this aimed at some middle-class Brits drinking in a ski resort. The so-called ‘white working-class’ (which is a problematic term to begin with) have now become a symbol of racism to many in the middle-class left, to be sneered at and disgusted by.
You’d never see a post like this aimed at some middle-class Brits drinking in a ski resort. The so-called ‘white working-class’ (which is a problematic term to begin with) have now become a symbol of racism to many in the middle-class left, to be sneered at and disgusted by.
‘I think, frankly, if we want better politics and we want our country better led… it would be better to transfer the responsibility of selecting our leaders and prime ministers back to MPs.’ - Peter Mandleson speaking on the latest ‘How to win an election’ with @MattChorley.
Meta revenues in the U.K. increased 750x between 2004 & 2022 (from £4 million to £3 billion). Google’s increased 22x. That destroyed ad model for British companies like ITV, hindering their ability to produce excellent TV and public service journalism. Time to talk about that.
A still from the upcoming ‘Around the World in 80 Daves’ where Lord Cameron goes round the world and meets 80 people also called Dave in unusual places (BBC2, Spring 2025)
Reasonable to assume from the US campus protests that the next generation of bureaucrats, staffers etc are going to be more sceptical, as a cohort, about American empire as a force for good in the world. European Atlanticists obsessing over Trump should take note.
Toxic could not have found a better home for adaptation than with Paris. It's beyond weird to know that one of the book's subjects has read it - and beyond gratifying to know that she got it like this. I am absolutely thrilled.
Toxic could not have found a better home for adaptation than with Paris. It's beyond weird to know that one of the book's subjects has read it - and beyond gratifying to know that she got it like this. I am absolutely thrilled.
This is another great episode on a geopolitical flashpoint I knew nothing about. This is the best political economy/ intellectual history/ climate geopolitics podcast out there.
This is another great episode on a geopolitical flashpoint I knew nothing about. This is the best political economy/ intellectual history/ climate geopolitics podcast out there.
I could give you 1,000 tries to guess how Kirstie Alley’s parents were dressed when they died in a car accident and you wouldn’t get it right
Cummings lives on!
Every single one of the remaining departments would have to be cut by as much as Osborne-era austerity again to make the numbers work. Justice, Home, Local Government, Housing, Transport. Never has a government gone into an election with such an implausible fiscal plan.
Every single one of the remaining departments would have to be cut by as much as Osborne-era austerity again to make the numbers work. Justice, Home, Local Government, Housing, Transport. Never has a government gone into an election with such an implausible fiscal plan.
Meanwhile back in the real world... Take a moment to read @jacobfuredi's eye-opening dispatch from Bloomfield in Blackpool for @unherd unherd.com/2024/04/how-vi…
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Also: "I don't want us to invent policies for newspaper headlines, I want us to get it right for the long term."
"I want my children to grow up in a country where the streets are safe, the public space isn't filthy, where it isn't a hassle to get around, you can own your own home and where climate change and the environment aren't an afterthought." —Cameron leadership victory speech, 2005
‘Boris Johnson was an electoral asset whom the Tories mistakenly stabbed for personal ambition’ is an interesting piece of Labour jujitsu (and notably not the line in 2022..)
Angela Rayner to Oliver Dowden: “Does he realise that when he stabbed Boris Johnson in the back, his party was ditching their biggest vote winner for a pint sized loser?"
This makes a case for GB News, and/or for why news orgs need more ideological diversity - the interviewer exposes Truss's fakery more skilfully than his C4 or News Agents counterparts would do. x.com/gbnamerica/sta…
Liz Truss's awkward interview moments with @StevenEdginton 🔒 Become a GB News Member: gbnews.com/support 👉 Read the interview: gbnews.com/politics/liz-t…
@TomMcTague Benefitting from cultural diversity but precious little interest in climate change or net zero targets. Sad case of white privilege.
If I ran a research centre at Oxford I simply wouldn't post sub-Otto English ragebait.
Four middle aged men on a panel titled something like “Towards a civic Albion?”
What four symbols epitomise Englishness? I'd tend to think of Big Ben/Elizabeth Tower and the bulldog as being British, not English, symbols
Some say offering cheap - or free - childcare is the key to increasing the birthrate. But this chart shows why that is very unlikely to be true. People don’t have children to put them in institutional care; they have children for a lifelong relationship that begins at birth. 1/5
The British Social Attitudes Survey finds a clear consensus that "both the mother and father work full time" is the *worst* way to organise things in a family with young children. And parents regularly say in surveys that they want to spend more, not less, time with their kids.
@HelenHet20 @TheseTimesPod @TomMcTague Always look forward to you two little rays of sunshine mid-week 😊
Don't let them tell you it's just about Zionism
Jewish students get harassed trying to leave @Columbia’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.
Was a great day out on the roads of London - until about mile 24 when the wheels came off… 😢 Congrats to everyone who ran in today’s #LondonMarathon!
If I may be earnest on main for a sec: Today I got approval for indefinite leave in the UK. It took 5 years, 4 visa applications, over £11K in fees, and untold paperwork. I'm so grateful it's over and I can stop hoarding payslips and utility bills.
Thanks a lot for this! Interviewing interesting people is a challenge and a privilege, and I feel very lucky doing it.
Congratulations to Henry Mance / @FT for receiving a high commendation in The #PressAwards Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year category
It came together nicely!
Currently explaining - or trying to explain - the concept of 'Nicky Haslam's Cleromantical Hexogram' to a French-Swiss art director. Issue 19 is coming together...
The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.
Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (@DarwinCollege) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the @spectator libido section.
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A year ago - A night to remember in North Kent - The O’s had done it! promotion achieved the “Leyton Orient way”… - red card - power cut - defeat Richie Wellens men had done it ! The 6 year plan complete The O’s back in League One!
Thinking of a clever response to this as I gaze at the clothes washing line in my living room x.com/mrrbourne/stat…
There's a European upper middle-class cope which basically says "yes, America might look richer, but there's no work-life balance, culture, or accessible healthcare." What I've learnt moving here is that, no, for genuinely comparable professionals, America is just much richer.