I know it is gauche to keep on pointing out your successful tips but back in February I advised PBers to back Kemi Badenoch be Tory leader on the 21st of June 2025 at the stonking odds of 1/12 based on the missive of Nadine Dorries (and apologies to all those people whose lives no longer make any sense following the revelation than Nadine Dorries was wrong.) My view is Kemi Badenoch will be replaced next summer after she takes…
It’s easy to laugh at the inauspicious start Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana have made but long term they could cause Labour problems. Today Ipsos have reported Sir Keir Starmer has worse net ratings than Jeremy Corbyn so it is possible the new party picks up a substantial number of disaffected number of voters. The new party is going to have more MPs than Reform right now so that will also cause them to get more airtime than Corbyn &…
William Hill have this market up and the talk about Donald Trump running for a third time, many expect the Trump enabling majority on SCOTUS to somehow parse the constitution to say Trump would be eligible. I don’t expect they will but if they did I suspect they would parse the constitution to say Barack Obama is ineligible to run for a third term such is my (lack of) faith in SCOTUS. Another reason why I think this bet is…
The story my friends and colleagues have talked about the most in the past week is about the cheating couple at the Coldplay concert. I am not surprised that the Afghan data leak doesn’t feature higher. But these findings show why the events in Gaza are causing Starmer so much trouble. TSE
Ultimately I don’t think the Epstein storywill damage Donald Trump and I expect him to distract the nation with something else, 900% tariffs on all imports to the US, that sort of distraction technique. Mike Johnson has done a Boris Johnson by shutting down the House of Representatives until September to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files. A fun betting market would be where will Ghislaine Maxwell be on the 31st of December 2025, I can see a…
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Last week I said if Reform were going to win the next general election then they would need to not look a party made up former Tory MPs because of the Tory legacies in so many area, especially immigration but it would appear that Reform voters are happy with the defectors. TSE