Et tu, Anas?
McSweeney is out — and so are the knives
The people of Aberdeen haven’t seen the sun for a month, and Keir Starmer knows how they feel. After losing his chief of staff on Sunday, he lost the latest in a series of directors of communications on Monday morning. Still, at least no one in Labour was publicly calling for him to resign. That would come just after lunch.
Starmer is now in a position familiar to those who remember Theresa May: no one can see how this goes on, but no one can quite work out how to end it. In her case, it was a set of terrible elections where Nigel Farage was triumphant. For Starmer … hang on, I’m just hearing something about what’s coming in three months.
In other news, this morning I went to see the new Wuthering Heights. My review will be up tomorrow, but I can reveal that checking the Wikipedia page on the book afterwards, I found I identified with “Joseph: A servant at Wuthering Heights who hates nearly everyone in the novel.”