After yesterday’s historic speech to Labour Party Conference, I got a chance to sit down with the Prime Minister @andyburnham to ask a few questions about his vision for Britain.

"We're the party of alarm clock Britain", says Robert Jenrick to a rally being held at 2pm on a Tuesday.

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I like how even he doesn’t seem that into doing the character anymore either.

How do restrictions on reporting on/publicly discussing court cases work if you have a public platform and you're also the defendant?

The big danger for the Labour Party is that they immediately decide that the fight for progressive voters is over. It will take very little to lose them again. Andy Burnham apparently likes to prove people wrong. He now needs to focus on proving voters he's won back right.

Everything I've read about Iron Dome/Golden Dome/Star Wars suggests it *only* really works in Israel. A country any bigger and the scale needed becomes a stretch. An enemy any better equipped and you're just baiting them to build more missiles to over power it.

Messaging like this was everywhere at Tory Conference. The hope is evidently to be the "sensible" right-wing party to Reform's chaos. Risk for them is it's very "Keir Starmer of the right".

Important context to the Conservatives' AI Bayeux Tapestry is that it helps fill-out an exhibition hall which is otherwise pretty dead. See also the *massive* bar/lounge area. Kind of a win for them to have turned that empty space into something with such social media appeal.

Had incredible fun playing Blood on the Clocktower IRL with @yogscast recently. I can’t wait to watch it this evening (but I *can* wait to see this terrifying baby again).

I would really, really like to write a think piece about Andy Burnham and Zohran Mamdani's politics of scambusting. I have no newspaper connections. Just throwing this out into the ether in case anyone with the power to commission it sees this.

Intentionally splitting tickets up and then making people pay to sit together again is effectively a scam. Stuff like this, the subscription trap moves, changing ticket acceptance on trains… it’s an indictment of our politics that they seem like such big steps.

Few politicians look like they want to be a politician as much as Ed Milliband. Like his policies or loathe them, he has a real energy of "now I'm in power I can do things" which a lot of parliament just lacks.