Dominic Cummings
Total 86 Posts
Less than a hundred days left.
13 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on the continuing Internal Market Bill fallout, the lack of business and border preparedness for deal or no deal, the growing obviousness that not extending the Transition Period was a massive error, and thoughts on where it is all heading.
Johnson’s smirk of the union address.
6 min read
What happens when you elect someone like Boris Johnson Prime Minister? You get lies, deflection, a willingness to trash conventions and break the laws, broken promises and an undermined devolution settlement. You get a PM who blames everyone else for his own failures.
Cameron, May, Johnson... who next?
3 min read
Off the back of rumours Boris Johnson is already planning his resignation in January (which may well be empty gossip), here are some slightly disjointed thoughts.
Johnson and Cummings’ dangerous dead cats strategy.
2 min read
A useful thread by Jonathan Powell who writes that Tory ministers are all over the place on the reasons the government wants to break international law on Brexit.
Why it matters that so many senior civil servants are quitting under Boris Johnson.
5 min read
Chief adviser Dominic Cummings doesn’t have much time for the civil service, preferring political appointees instead.
Gavin Williamson, Ofqual and the great A-level blame game.
5 min read
A government agency makes a convenient scapegoat for a minister out of his depth.
The long, slow grind continues.
12 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s brilliant Brexit analysis on state aid as a stumbling block, the attritional grind of emerging Brexit effects, and why there seems to be so little public concern. Faith, pragmatism, post-truth politics, and possible futures.