Quantum politics
It’s not inconsistency, it’s clever physics
Kemi Badenoch opened her press conference on Tuesday with a revealing complaint. Labour, she said, were blaming Conservatives for the state of the country “long after they left office”. It was noteworthy because, a few minutes later, the Tory leader said that “many of the problems we have now are because we did not unwind a lot of Labour’s mistakes in 2010.”
Some would look at the claim that 16 months is a long time and 15 years but the blink of an eye and call it inconsistency. That’s quite unfair. It’s not widely known that, as well as being an engineer, Badenoch is the greatest physicist of her generation, someone who gives her speeches from a fold in the space-time continuum known as the Quantum Realm.
Also online, my film column from this/last month’s magazine, covering The Bruce Springsteen film (well, I had fun), Roofman (enjoyable until you think about what’s going on) and Frankenstein (a film in which a character actually says, out loud, “YOU are the monster!”).
The genius of these sketches is that they aren't the products of several days refining the jokes, but have to be produced in a few hours.