Lewis Goodall

His great genius is that he makes all of his enemies seem hysterical, even when there is loads to be hysterical about. Every day is a challenge.

His great genius is that he makes all of his enemies seem hysterical, even when there is loads to be hysterical about. Every day is a challenge.

Well, you know what? As the response to various sort of madcap things that Trump has come up with sort of day by day goes, it's probably the strongest and most strident kind of point of disagreement that he's had. I mean, obviously, he didn't say, you know, Trump is wrong.

Well, you know what? As the response to various sort of madcap things that Trump has come up with sort of day by day goes, it's probably the strongest and most strident kind of point of disagreement that he's had. I mean, obviously, he didn't say, you know, Trump is wrong.

They will do everything that they possibly can right now to avoid saying the words Trump is wrong or what the hell was he talking about or whatever it happens to be. So, you know, it is a qualitatively kind of different stance. But I mean, I think, you know, you look at Starmer right now and his biggest problem is, I mean, you can feel how utterly buffeted, you know, he finds himself being.

They will do everything that they possibly can right now to avoid saying the words Trump is wrong or what the hell was he talking about or whatever it happens to be. So, you know, it is a qualitatively kind of different stance. But I mean, I think, you know, you look at Starmer right now and his biggest problem is, I mean, you can feel how utterly buffeted, you know, he finds himself being.

Being in government, you know, you finally get the bully pulpit, right? You finally get the ability to command. You finally get the ability to be able to set the terms of political trade, right? You basically say what's happening every day and everybody else responds it, particularly in the media, right? That's one of the great kind of convening powers of being in government.

Being in government, you know, you finally get the bully pulpit, right? You finally get the ability to command. You finally get the ability to be able to set the terms of political trade, right? You basically say what's happening every day and everybody else responds it, particularly in the media, right? That's one of the great kind of convening powers of being in government.

He doesn't have that right now because every single day, Westminster and British journalism wakes up and doesn't actually think at the moment, like what is Downing Street saying about something? It's what is the White House saying about something? And then like paragraph B is this is what Downing Street is saying or often like not saying in response to what Trump has said.

He doesn't have that right now because every single day, Westminster and British journalism wakes up and doesn't actually think at the moment, like what is Downing Street saying about something? It's what is the White House saying about something? And then like paragraph B is this is what Downing Street is saying or often like not saying in response to what Trump has said.

He's a figure who, at the best of times, Dharma, struggles to command the narrative. And right now he is basically being completely and utterly removed from it by force, by the kind of Leviathan that is Trump.

He's a figure who, at the best of times, Dharma, struggles to command the narrative. And right now he is basically being completely and utterly removed from it by force, by the kind of Leviathan that is Trump.

Well, I don't think it's a secret that that. there's been a lot of people within the Labour Party who are very uncertain about what Starmer's politics are, right? He is quite Sphinx-like about it. He is somewhat, I mean, the Labour Party, right, loves to, its principal activity, right, is to over-intellectualize. right?

Well, I don't think it's a secret that that. there's been a lot of people within the Labour Party who are very uncertain about what Starmer's politics are, right? He is quite Sphinx-like about it. He is somewhat, I mean, the Labour Party, right, loves to, its principal activity, right, is to over-intellectualize. right?

Like it constantly, and this is one of the reasons probably it loses by comparison to the Conservative Party a lot, you know, it constantly engages in self-reflection. Like if they are good at one thing, right, it is beating themselves up and thinking about all of the different things that kind of are making up their politics at one given time.

Like it constantly, and this is one of the reasons probably it loses by comparison to the Conservative Party a lot, you know, it constantly engages in self-reflection. Like if they are good at one thing, right, it is beating themselves up and thinking about all of the different things that kind of are making up their politics at one given time.

The Tory party just tends to sort of go on and crack on with things and do it, you know, like the Labour Party could win 649 seats of 650, and it would be really worried about not winning the 650th, right? That's what somehow it would really sort of start thinking, oh God, but we might lose next time. We might lose next time, you know, right? So that's the difference.

The Tory party just tends to sort of go on and crack on with things and do it, you know, like the Labour Party could win 649 seats of 650, and it would be really worried about not winning the 650th, right? That's what somehow it would really sort of start thinking, oh God, but we might lose next time. We might lose next time, you know, right? So that's the difference.

Starmer is quite different in the sense he doesn't like to over-intellectualize anything. As far as I can tell, he doesn't really like thinking about much at all. I mean, this is a guy who was asked not long ago who his favorite authors were or what his favorite films were. And he looked entirely blankly. He said, I don't really read stuff. I don't really read novels.

Starmer is quite different in the sense he doesn't like to over-intellectualize anything. As far as I can tell, he doesn't really like thinking about much at all. I mean, this is a guy who was asked not long ago who his favorite authors were or what his favorite films were. And he looked entirely blankly. He said, I don't really read stuff. I don't really read novels.