When it comes to having a bad week at work, few people could rival Sir Keir Starmer’s last seven days. You might almost feel sorry for the Prime Minister, had his bad habit of focusing on deposing enemies rather than putting his best players on the pitch not finally caught up with him.
But here we are. A chaotic circus of knife-throwing and ego-juggling has rolled into town. And the really bad news? Whether it’s Andy, Wes or Ange, it looks set to last for months, not weeks. And there’s another lesser-known name that keeps cropping up too: Al Carns. Katie Rosseinsky looks at how this decorated ex-Marine could be a dark-horse candidate could change the game.
Of course, while the Starmer drama was in full swing, some newly elected Reform councillors were facing their own reckoning. Poorly vetted and ill-prepared, will this kind of incompetence be enough to turn those turquoise towns red again? Colin Drury headed to Barnsley to find out what residents there made of all the national mayhem.
Meanwhile, in Doncaster, one newly elected 18-year-old Reform councillor decided to make a UFO-spotting facility a priority for residents. Ahead of Spielberg’s new film coming out, are UFO believers deluded, differently wired – or simply ahead of the curve? Read Jonathan Margolis’s fascinating report here.
Anyone feeling like some well-needed escapism is in luck, as Jilly Cooper’s Rivals is back on our screens. Having been 20 in the Eighties, Rowan Pelling reflects on why it was so much better being that age then than now. With today’s complex dating etiquette and soaring anxiety levels, compared to “Generation Jilly”, today’s twenty-somethings barely drink, never dress up and think random expressions of sexual interest are deeply problematic. Have they forgotten what fun looks like, she asks in her trip down memory lane.
Meanwhile, Debora Robertson writes that, when the world seems like a crazy place, when it is a crazy place, there’s a reason why so many of us head into the garden. We saw it in Covid and we’re seeing it again, with the Royal Horticultural Society seeing its biggest membership spike since the gardening boom of 2021 and 2022. Read why even gazing at a horizon can boost our moods, even when it’s a horizon we’ve created ourselves.
And if you are looking for an escape further afield and haven’t booked your summer holiday yet, don’t panic! There are still plenty of options available for a great getaway, which our travel desk has compiled for you here.
Until next weekend!
Victoria Harper
Executive Editor
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