Angus Colwell

I wrote about my obsession with Marco Pierre White, in this week’s issue of The Spectator. spectator.co.uk/article/my-mar…

Inside the Labour leadership contest in all its bitchy glory spectator.com/article/its-li…

Red alert: Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman on Wes Streeting’s explosive plan 🔸 Douglas Murray: Things can always get worse 🔸 Liam Halligan: The truth about me and Kate Garraway 🔸 Geoffrey Cain: What Trump wants from his China trip 🔸 Olivia Potts: The joy of iced buns Read more | spectator.com

Always fun when a cabinet minister forces a total rewrite of the magazine cover story on your birthday 50 mins before print time. Cheers, Wes

RT @echetus: What is the plan for national Manchesterism? Bully all cultural institutions out of London? A Media City in every town? Demand…

A Labour source texts: “Keir answers every question about our future with people from the past.”

Lots of Labour leadership news around in the last few days: 🚨Wes Streeting has the votes! - You read it on Spectator.co.uk on April 30th 🚨Angela Rayner mugging up on defence matters - You read it first in the Spectator on April 22nd 🚨Ed Miliband prepared to back

We left the Pale and escaped to Whitechapel. We left Whitechapel and found Golders Green, a peaceful slice of suburban England that we could call home. Peaceful, that is, until now. Wrote an essay on recent events for @thetimes times-comment.com/newgoldersgreen

This is, I think, my favourite story of the year?

Why do people still drink skimmed milk? It's packed with more sugar than full-fat and I'd never touch the stuff, says Peter Hitchens.

EXCL * Labour's influential Tribune group will publish a pamphlet of policy essays in the aftermath of local elections * The pamphlet, which Tribune will insist does NOT constitute a manifesto, is set to show the soft left ‘isn’t just wishy washy and spend spend spend’ *Haigh,

Is Britain entering an era of 'trans rage'? A year since the Supreme Court ruled that gender means biological sex, Max Jeffery writing in this week's Spectator uncovers an anonymous collective going after people it believes frustrate the transgender experience. @MaxJeffery_

The bridge simply cannot be lit up at night. At risk of sound a bit John Wilmot, walking across an empty St James’s Park late at night, totally alone in the pitch black, is one of London’s best things.

Starmer has lost the civil service, 'now only Labour MPs can save the country' 🚨REVEALED: the gushing texts to Mandelson 🚨Robbins' payoff to top £1m of taxpayers' money 🚨OFFICIALS: Why Starmer is worse than Boris 🚨'He’s a shitweasel whose sole political talent is blaming

Keir karma: Tim Shipman on why Starmer has become everything he once opposed 🔸 Lionel Shriver: Welcome to Killjoy Britain 🔸 Zoe Strimpel: Lena Denham’s toxic feminism 🔸 Max Jeffery: The new age of transgender rage 🔸 Peter James: In defence of train drivers

Increasingly convinced that 70% of the books in charity bookshops are by Peter Ackroyd.

Via Popbitch!

Very kind of Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys to acknowledge this.

Simmons getting some well-deserved attention and noise – but some, perhaps, could do with actually “reading” the “piece”. Another fantastic dispatch on Britain’s increasingly farcical economy.

@Alwaysaslave27 I have cerebral palsy

Benefits treats: Britain has become a freeloader’s paradise, says Michael Simmons 🔸 Paul Wood: Trump can’t win in Iran 🔸 Douglas Murray: The rise and fall of Tariq Ramadan 🔸 Olivia Potts: Farewell, Gentleman’s Relish 🔸 William Atkinson: Is time up for Viktor Orban?