December 19, 2022
Former US President Donald Trump announced a series of $99 digital trading card NFTs. In a bizarre video he claimed to be a better president than Lincoln and Washington, and introduced the fanciful portraits depicting him in various heroic roles. Just wow.
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December 12, 2022
Fifteen years after the global financial crisis, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a raft of major reforms to the financial sector. Essentially undoing the regulation that was introduced to prevent the sort of risk-taking that led to banks having to be bailed out, it appeared to be an admission that the UK economy still relied heavily on financial services and pointed to an inevitable future crash.
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December 5, 2022
Despite claiming that the so-called "vow" of 2014 had already been delivered, former politician Gordon Brown has continued to reappear regularly to promise Scotland 'federalism', 'home rule', 'devo max', 'everything short of independence'. So when Keir Starmer announced a new constitutional blueprint that will "radically shake up devolution", devised by Gordon Brown, we can be sure it's not going far. Meanwhile Nigel Farage said Starmer's views on immigration put him to the right of the Tories, and, in a largely unreported story, staff at the Faslane nuclear base had to be moved following a "serious radiation breach".
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November 28, 2022
In a unanimous judgment, the UK supreme court ruled that the Scottish parliament could not hold a second independence referendum without Westminster approval. Subsequently Scottish Tories were posed the question 'what is the legal democratic route to independence?' and struggled to provide an adequate answer - because there isn't one.
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November 21, 2022
In response to a Welsh minister, chancellor Jeremy Hunt referred to Westminster as "the English Government" before correcting himself with "the United Kingdom Government". The thoroughly gloomy budget he then set out received a muted response, even from the Tories, and a universal drubbing in the press. But one fiercely loyal minister, Scottish branch manager Douglas Ross, praised it highly.
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November 14, 2022
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of the first changes he made was to allow blue-tick verification for anyone who was willing to shell out $8 a month for the privilege. This resulted in a slew of hilarious 'verified' parody accounts, including one attributed to Nicola Sturgeon that had written to Douglas Ross saying he smelled of fish.
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November 7, 2022
Matt Hancock, who as Health Secretary during the lockdown period released hospital patients into care homes without making them take covid tests, is to publish a book called 'Pandemic Diaries'. He also signed up to be on 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' despite supposedly being a sitting MP. Meanwhile Home Secretary Suella Braverman took a £3500-an-hour Chinook helicopter to visit a site that was all of 19 miles away. And you may have seen some TV show called 'Make Me Prime Minister'. I haven't.
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October 31, 2022
New prime minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled the cabinet, bringing back Michael Gove, Dominic Raab and, controversially, Suella Braverman, who had been forced to resign as Home Secretary just a week before. The conservatives also posted a video with a soundtrack which sounded like it was sampled from Gary Glitter's 'Rock'n'Roll part 2'. Twitter had a field day.
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October 24, 2022
After a disastrous 45 days in office which saw the UK economy tank, Liz Truss resigned. Astonishingly her predecessor Boris Johnson seemed to be in the running to replace her.
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October 17, 2022
In an article in the Economist, Prime Minister Liz Truss's term in office was compared to the shelf life of a lettuce. There was a growing number of voices from her own party calling for her resignation and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was replaced by Jeremy Hunt after just 38 days in the post.
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