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Politico
There’s a new political podcast on the block, as if we haven’t got enough already. Time will tell if this one – hosted by Jack Blanchard – has the necessary addictive qualities to attract a large audience. Blanchard is known to Westminster insiders through his three-year editorship of the Politico London Playbook early morning email. This became essential reading for any Westminster watcher or player, and this first episode is devoted to how it came into being and what it’s like to write it. Pretty dry fayre, you’d think, but Blanchard interviews others who write these emails, like Ben Brogan, who really pioneered the genre back in the day when he worked for the Telegraph. Paul Waugh from HuffPo and Esther Webber from the Times Red Box also appear, as well as George Osborne, who had some good tales to tell. At first, I thought it might be a bit too “in”, but as the 37 minutes came to an end, I came to reflect that this is just the sort of stuff that you used
A briefing document seen by The Guardian said that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has ordered the mass testing campaign in “an attempt at eradication of the new variant if at all possible”, after cases were discovered in parts of London, the West Midlands and the East, Southeast and Northwest of England.
Hancock told a Downing Street news conference yesterday that the UK needed to “come down hard” on the strain, after random checks uncovered 11 cases with no links to travel.
According to the government’s website, the so-called surge testing will be rolled out in the following postcodes: London (W7, N17, CR4); West Midlands (WS2); East of England (EN10); Southeast (ME15, GU21); Northwest (PR9).
Kemi Badenoch, minister for equalities and Saffron Walden MP. (Chris McAndrew/Official portrait of Kemi Badenoch)
Conservative equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has accused a young female journalist – who committed the offence of asking Badenoch a question – of “sowing distrust” and “making absurd claims”.
Badenoch took to Twitter to accuse Nadine White, a
HuffPost reporter, of being “irresponsible”, “creepy” and “bizarre”, sharing screenshots of an emailed comment request that White had the audacity to send her.
White has now been forced to make her Twitter profile private, after Badenoch’s eight-tweet thread about her “prompted a Twitter pile-on from some very abusive extremists”, according to