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Sam Freedman

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Writes the UK's most popular politics Substack (). New book - "Failed State" - now out .

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1Oct 27, '24It's kind of incredible that Barack Obama can be one of the best political speakers we've seen this century and still not be the best speaker in his own family.34.1×3.7M118k8.8k9.8k
2Jan 18, '24For people under 50 today's YouGov poll is: Lab 60% Con 10% Green 10% LD 9% Reform 5% SNP 3%21.4×2.3M5.4k1.3k190
3Sep 2, '24I'd read a study into the economics of Center Parcs. It's significantly cheaper to go to nicer, hotter, resorts in Europe (including flights) and yet they are always full and I don19.7×2.1M8k203473
4Aug 5, '23Two big macs AND a cheesburger combined have the same number of calories as the vegan katsu curry at Wagamama. Fact.15.9×1.7M7.3k273291
5Mar 8, '23Home office staff Q+A going well.14.4×1.6M8.4k1.9k303
6Aug 29, '24You literally announced a bill to make smoking completely illegal a few months ago?!13.9×1.5M32k2.1k286
7Jul 5, '24Have to say when Cameron became PM of a majority govt in 2015 on 36.9% of the vote I don't remember quite so much concern about vote shares.12.8×1.4M11k1.2k266
8Mar 18, '23Mail, Express and Telegraph get taken on a taxpayer funded Braverman trip to Rwanda. Each paper dutifully splashes their Sunday edition with the headline she's asked for. Client jo12.5×1.4M8.1k2.1k49
9Feb 12, '24Middle income families do not use private schools for the absolute love of God. The average household income is less than the annual fee of Sunak's old school.10.2×1.1M6.9k697172
10May 25, '24My 14 year old daughter is sitting next to me and saw the headlines about national service. Her response including several words I did not know she knew.10.0×1.1M11k642178
11Nov 14, '23The best bit in Braverman's letter is where she says she was prepared to accept Sunak despite him having no public mandate as long as he agreed to her secret deal the public didn't8.8×956k10k1.6k142
12Jul 1, '24Starmer's wife is Jewish. Maybe some of these braying Tory idiots might pause and think why Friday night might be important for them as a family?8.2×893k8.5k824119
13Mar 10, '23These are the BBC rules on social media and it is v hard to see how Lineker broke them. (Via @kitandrew1)8.1×886k6.9k2.1k182
14Mar 25, '23Kwarteng thinking a random Korean consultancy was going to pay him £10k a day right after he'd offered himself at £10k a month gives some insight into why he struggled as Chancello7.7×840k5.2k697148
15Oct 2, '22Haaland now has as many PL hattricks as Ronaldo, Vardy and Lampard. He's played eight games.7.0×040k3.5k232
16Apr 21, '23Am going to do a substantive post on Raab and bullying for tomorrow but the idea that his behaviour was necessary to drive performance can be refuted by the absence of a single sub6.4×691k5.2k1.1k58
17Apr 16, '23For instance adults should be able to answer simple questions like: "If you are thousands of maths teachers short of required numbers + you've cut real terms pay for 13 years + the6.1×667k4.7k1.4k38
18May 2, '24So jealous of the election official who got to turn Johnson away for having no ID. The joy that would swell in your soul when you realised he had none.5.8×626k21k1.6k239
19Dec 30, '22Honestly don't understand how the China travel checks is a bigger news story than people lying on the floor of A+Es around the country writhing in agony. The latter is far scarier 5.4×589k5.5k1.1k25
20Apr 22, '23For all those still arguing Raab's behaviour was necessary to improve performance, a reminder that he delayed a decision to evacuate people from Afghanistan because he was unhappy 5.1×554k5k1.4k89
21Jan 4, '23Someone needs to tell Sunak to stop talking to us like he's a management consultant delivering a careers session at the local college.4.8×520k6.2k69528
22Jul 5, '24It's astonishing that Labour are going to win the biggest majority of the postwar era and the BBC cannot stop talking about Reform. Reform's relative success is absolutely part of 4.7×510k5.7k87088
23Nov 3, '24Must have run out of space before they could mention Dyson bought 36k acres of farmland to avoid inheritance tax.4.6×500k8.3k1.2k97
24Jan 29, '17Dear BBC news programmes - this man no longer leads a party, isn't a MP, and no one cares what he thinks. Please stop inviting him on.4.4×013k8.1k0
25Jul 6, '24England's first ever penalty win under a Labour government.4.4×481k12k632115
26May 3, '24Sheffield joins Liverpool and Manchester in having no Tory councillors at all.4.4×479k5.8k64494
27Jul 26, '24This is why you do opening ceremonies in the stadium...4.4×474k8.9k344158
28Sep 13, '23Hi Chris can you tell me which hospitals Steve Barclay has worked in? Or the schools Gillian Keegan has taught in? Or which units Grant Shapps has commanded?4.3×472k4.8k58916
29Sep 10, '24Many of the people in this photo ran on a manifesto in 2017 that promised to cut winter fuel payments.4.1×446k9.3k83581
30Apr 16, '24Absolutely top front page all round. 10/10 no notes.4.1×442k7.9k918367
31Aug 16, '24It's the utter shamelessness of it.4.1×441k6.3k1.4k246
32Mar 10, '23If the BBC have to pull MOTD I'm happy to fill in with an 80 min lecture on why the illegal immigration bill is the worse piece of legislation put in front of Parliament in my life3.9×421k8.9k1.1k28
33Jul 5, '24To cap it off the swing of 26% that took out Liz Truss was the biggest ever Tory to Labour to swing in any election.3.5×383k5.1k813150
34Jul 8, '24This is great but he should have stopped at the end, picked up a bacon sandwich, and taken a huge messy bite.3.5×380k7k241101
35May 1, '18In 2002 Wimbledon fans had our club stolen. It was reopened in Milton Keynes as MK Dons. We restarted the club in the 10th division of non-league football. 17 years later - because3.5×017k3.1k3
36May 27, '24In total now the Conservatives are saying they'll raise £6 billion a year from cutting tax avoidance. So they are acknowledging they've left tens of billions on the table over the 3.5×376k7.3k1.7k113
37Jul 5, '24A good case that the Lib Dems just ran the most successful campaign (given the starting point) in British political history. They won every seat they targeted bar Jeremy Hunt's, in3.4×371k6.1k524209
38Jun 7, '18St Petersburg was designed by an Italian and built by a Frenchman using Swedish labourers.3.2×014k3.7k16
39Aug 26, '20Whichever librarian managed to get not just the "The Twits" but also "Betrayed"; "Resistance" and "Fahrenheit 451" in the shot behind Johnson has my admiration.3.2×014k3.4k141
40Mar 4, '22At this rate the Ukrainian farmers union are going to have the 6th or 7th biggest army in the world.3.1×016k2.3k138
41May 27, '24Again - how dare a government that has cut funding for 16-19 education by 15%, cut youth services by 70%, whacked up student loan repayments, overseen record rises in rents, and cu3.1×334k4.8k931121
42Sep 8, '24That's what happens when you invest in paralympic sport and take it seriously.3.1×334k9.1k29948
43May 4, '24In the North East London constituency the "Britain First: No to Immigration" candidate was beaten by the Animal Welfare Party, Count Binface, and a random independent. God I love m3.1×333k6.9k94276
44Feb 26, '22I guess a lot of Brits are seeing Zelensky in the first time in this role of heroic war leader and don't realise he's a comedy actor by trade. He won the Presidency after appearing3.0×016k1.5k249
45Oct 3, '22Number of students currently studying architecture, building, planning and engineering = 245,395 Number currently studying "Harry Potter Studies" = 02.9×014k2.7k120
46Jul 26, '24Sunak sitting somewhere grumbling that when he got soaked on TV everyone laughed at him.2.9×312k8k239104
47Nov 1, '24Just possible that a US tech billionaire might not be the most knowledgeable source of info on UK agricultural property relief.2.9×311k5.7k36038
48Feb 15, '22I think the BBC may have dramatically overestimated how interesting the narcissistic ramblings of a tennis player might be.2.7×016k1k26
49May 26, '24I know it's stupid electioneering and will never happen, but this has really would me up. How dare this bunch of clowns who've spent the last few years destroying everything turn a2.7×295k6.1k1k90
50Mar 29, '20Zoom is now valued at 50% more than all the US airlines put together.2.6×011k2.7k149
51May 5, '22There was a 93 year old lady at the polling station. Registered blind. In a very loud voice she said "how do I vote against beergate!" Everyone cheered.2.5×015k99458
52Jan 31, '22Imagine being too much of a moral vacuum for Priti Patel.2.3×012k1.6k229
53Nov 19, '21Cannot get over that Dacre letter. A man with a £2m salary, a Mayfair house, Highlands estate + Carribean holiday home, who's had decades of privileged access to multiple Prime Min2.1×011k1.8k65
54Mar 14, '22Impressive handbrake turn from the Mail.2.1×09.8k2k145
55Dec 17, '21TV series idea - CASE CLOSED - veteran detective Simon Case investigates murders in a small rural village but every week he turns out to be one of the perpetrators + has to flee to2.1×011k1.4k47
56Dec 23, '21An Oxford education and no one ever told him Cassandra was right!2.1×010k1.4k71
57Feb 27, '22With Strictly and voicing Paddington on his CV the only way Zelensky could appeal to middle Britain more would be if it turned out he played Superintendent Hastings in the Ukrainia2.0×012k90472
58Mar 10, '19Coverage of the Ethiopian crash is grimly revealing. Every headline focuses on the 7 Brits lost rather than the 149 people in total. Every story has a picture of the white woman wh2.0×07.9k2.1k24
59Jan 25, '18GCSE data published today shows that for the first time pupils for whom English is not their first language (EAL) did better than native speakers on every measure reported by the D1.9×05.6k3.2k9
60Feb 24, '22Today doesn't feel like it's gone as Putin wanted: * Ukrainian defence stronger than expected. * Massive US/EU/UK sanctions for all major banks * Stockmarket down 40% * Protests ac1.8×09k1.4k124
61Feb 21, '22I reckon if you're going to spend that much on a house you should finish the book and see how it works out for everyone first.1.7×09.5k1.1k73
62Dec 7, '21The day of that "press conference" there was a "gold command" meeting discussing whether to put the country in full lockdown; thousands of lorry drivers were stuck outside Dover wi1.7×08.2k1.7k47
63Oct 31, '22Back in 1893 the Tory MP for Thanet James Lowther gave a speech saying the country was being "overrun" by "destitute foreign migrants" who should go back to where they came from. H1.7×07k1.9k79
64Oct 24, '22A lot of focus on Sunak being the first Asian PM but this is a big day for Britain's petite male community as well.1.7×09.7k524115
65Mar 10, '20Unfortunately I have a cough + a fever. Turns out I can't get a test because I haven't been to any affected countries or come into contact with a known case. Even though I have bee1.6×07.4k1.3k43
66Dec 31, '21Congratulations to Jan Moir for sneaking in right at the end to win worst take of the year.1.6×08.3k88877
67Jun 13, '20I can't imagine.1.6×06.3k2.1k59
68Mar 9, '21Looking forward to Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage's inevitable GB News talk show. I propose the name "Loose Gammon".1.6×08.5k90520
69Mar 25, '22Putin doing a live speech and just did a bit on "cancel culture" in the West focusing particularly on J. K. Rowling being cancelled. I wish I was joking.1.6×07.4k812153
70Jul 6, '22Being told by Grant Shapps and Priti Patel than you're not good enough at politics is the final humiliation.1.5×08.7k95524
71Apr 13, '22Papers have been briefed that Govt will announce tomorrow that asylum seekers will be flown to centres in Rwanda for the claims to be assessed. Sending people fleeing from persecut1.5×06.2k1.6k71
72Oct 14, '22Pre-Brexit we had three Chancellors in 19 years. Post-Brexit six in six.1.5×06.7k1.7k54
73May 14, '22Sometimes I can't help but think Jacob Rees-Mogg is an invented character designed purely to wind me up. No set of affections or behaviours could be so perfectly calculated to make1.4×08.1k50213
74Oct 20, '22I doubt he'll stand but if the Tory party put Boris Johnson back in charge I'm going to become one of those people that stands outside Parliament shouting all day.1.4×07.8k62419
75Nov 11, '21The absolute chef's kiss headline of this whole debacle1.4×07.2k1.1k31
76Oct 19, '2240 Tories didn't vote with the Government on fracking. Including Kwasi Kwarteng.1.4×07k98868
77Nov 4, '20Because you told Republicans not to vote by mail you absolute balloon.1.4×07.1k1.1k26
78Feb 23, '21Did...did...they commission this because it rhymes?1.4×05.9k54859
79Dec 25, '21Love Christmas Day on twitter. All the "I only use it for work" lightweights gone and just the hardcore three-pack a day addicts left.1.3×08.1k46246
80Jun 3, '22“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”1.3×07.2k83735
81Dec 8, '21Tory MPs declaring their opposition to attacks on liberty re: masks/vaccines while voting through a Borders Bill that allows the Govt to remove someone's citizenship without even t1.3×05.3k1.7k46
82Aug 2, '22I'm sorry but this is contempible. It was in the press release. We can all see it.1.3×05.6k1.2k52
83Oct 23, '22Lol - Zahawi and Cleverly trashed their reputations for absolutely nothing. Classic Boris Johnson dick move.1.2×06.6k68938
84Oct 30, '21Wait till they hear how many times this month I've worn these trousers. I'm basically CEO of Greenpeace.1.2×07.1k45815
85Jul 19, '22Being publicly called "utterly ridiculous" by Nadine Dorries is a new career high.1.2×07.4k29911
86Jan 13, '22One of these parties (I know it's hard to keep track) was for James Slack, now deputy editor of The Sun, in case you've been wondering why they've been downplaying partygate.1.2×05.5k1.2k24
87Feb 11, '22As the Met said yesterday that these questionnaires are equivalent to an interview under caution, Boris Johnson takes the dubious honour of being the first PM to be cautioned by po1.2×05.4k1.1k29
88Dec 13, '21Asking someone to have a test before going to a big event = Nazi authoritarianism. Removing people's citizenship w/o informing them and banning peaceful protest = sensible strong g1.2×05.6k1.1k51
89Dec 2, '18Hanukkah begins today. Like all Jewish festivals it can be summarised as: "They tried to kill us. We survived. Let's eat."1.2×06.5k70216
90Sep 26, '21Always amazed when discussing private schools on here how many people using them genuinely think they're "squeezed middle" or not rich. Apart from a handful of full bursaries every1.1×05.6k52880
91Apr 22, '22If I were one of Rees-Moggs civil servants I would sneak into his office and leave a note saying: "You weren't here when I walked by but I look forward to seeing you out of office 1.1×06.2k5568
92Sep 29, '22However bad your day has been you are not the person trying to write Truss's conference speech.1.1×05.9k53616
93Sep 13, '19I fully support Farage in this boycott and I hope the BBC understand that continuing to ask him on programmes is disrespectful given he's made his position clear.1.1×05.4k7548
94Sep 26, '22Yougov 23rd-25th September Labour 45% Tories 28% Libs 9% Biggest Labour lead YouGov have ever had in 21 years of polling.1.0×05.1k79036
96Jul 4, '22I'm not saying Boris has quite reached the end yet, but his wife briefing against him is probably not a good sign.1.0×05.6k56644
97Sep 5, '22Priti Patel stepping down from Government and heading to the backbenches.1.0×05.5k72733
98Jul 5, '22There is no getting around the fact that this is extremely enjoyable.1.0×06k3467
99Aug 11, '22Kudos to the Metro for that splash.1.0×05.2k66032
100Jul 11, '22Being endorsed by Rees-Mogg, Dorries and the Mail simultaneously is the political equivalent of the sorting hat putting you in Slytherin.0.9×05k46322
101Oct 14New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. How 0.6×65k1804169

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