Helen Lewis

And he was just like, yes, what we should do is just put one more restriction on house building.

a problem as well in the health sector with gp's uh supply and hours and and also one of the things is that every new development is often subject to like judicial review and then planning appeals so if you're building that jeep if you're a gp do you want to move into somewhere that in three years time there might be some houses there or depending whether or not the residents have taken it all the way to the high court no in fact there won't be or that you know they found a newt yes or something like that the resident's blood pressure will have gone up so much that you will have quite a few kind of patients coming in as a result that's true

On the no overall control thing, so there are currently 32 councils outside London that are no overall control.

Sam Friedman, in a very good substack about the local elections, said he thinks there's probably going to be another 32 outside London at the end of this.

So that's really the story of these elections, isn't it?

It's like we hate the mainstream.

If you've still got a Tory council, you're going to register that you hate them.

But mostly if you've got a Labour council, you're going to register that you hate them.

That's tragic, because Donald Trump is hoping for gold statues, and Britain being Britain, we've got... Cost of living crisis touches even reform.

What slightly retro fact became obvious at the Scottish Party leaders' televised debate?

sent a pigeon individually to each Scottish voter's home with the results of who'd won.

Tragically not, although that would be charming.

They're all men.

It's been a big turnabout in Scottish politics from the halcyon days of Kezia, Doug Dale, Ruth Davidson, Nicola Sturgeon having three main parties.

It's all chaps.

The chapocracy has returned to Scotland.

Joanna Cherry, former SNP MP, has left the SNP in fairly spectacular fashion with a book coming out, Keeping the Dream Alive, which details her fallout with Nicola Sturgeon and the party.

What did she claim that the SNP wanted to melt down in 2018?

It was a bust of Alex Salmond.

Yeah, she says that the party was only too keen to move on from the Alex Salmond era when he... Oh, sorry, it wasn't a gold bust to Alex Salmond.