Lawrence Kay

Defender of Britain's liberal project.

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

What I read in 2026:

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

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[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

What I read in 2026:

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

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[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

A beautiful detail from the FT’s obit of Sir Alex Younger

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

I really good piece that does what it says it's going to do.

[Giles Dilnot @reporterboy]

Plenty of people I like will disagree but I wrote a thing about why I like Kemi.

It has the virtue of being honest

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

'This country is far too important to give up on.'

That's exactly the way to put it.

[Festus Akinbusoye @FestAKINBUSOYE]

The ideological mess that's been created by the 'clever lot' is one of the reasons so many have lost faith in our public institutions - but we must not give up.

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

I am still at something of a loss as to why he was stripped of his British citizenship. We haven't had any meaningful explanation from HMG (just "in the interests of national security"). If he was some kind of Russian intel asset, why was he not arrested and charged in the UK? I appreciate sometimes that is something the 'organs' want to avoid, lest they have to reveal sources & methods in a court case, but I still think that depriving citizenship is a big enough deal that we should know more about the backstory

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

There are days of thinking positively about economic growth prospects for the African continent, and then there's the day when you read that almost none of the region's countries test their kids with PISA.

https://t.co/NFbGl1YvWY

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Reform tends to do best in the polls when they say nothing. They then serve as a kind of blank canvas upon which voters imagine a drawing of their own fantasies of what Reform should be. Whenever Reform actually speaks that disappoints those fantasies, & their poll ratings drop.+

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

Can I be the first to point out that if PSG win the UCL next year, they'll actually have done a back-to-back-to front and not a back-to-back-to-back?

Thank you for giving me a few seconds of your day.

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

@J_D_89 I read this last year. For me it was one of those 'I can see how this was a classic at the time, but now I don't quite get it.'

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

Can you expand on that? The more that I age and see of the world, the more I think that there might be something about the visual cortex dominating the brain, and hence our massively over-weighting colour in how we see each other and the world. Hence there is some physical reason that eternally returns us to the fallacy you mention. But I'm also deeply dumb on such things.

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

The unit of analysis is the individual, not skin colour. You can't start from the latter and get to the former. At least, I don't believe anyone ever has.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Group-based grievance politics is a road to disaster.

Kemi Badenoch has known this, and had the courage to say it aloud, for years.

Even when it was hard. Even when it was unfashionable. Even when she was attacked for it.

She was right then, and she’s right now.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

A reminder (in case anyone actually needed it) that when Badenoch said "Black lives do matter" she was literally arguing *against* being woke.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Given the immediate context of the cold rage remarks - Farage's invoking of specifically white victimhood - this might be an interesting case if it came to court. I'd say Chorley's well publicised apology more than covers it

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

FIFA are so annoying in their approach to badges for the World Cup. I have almost no idea, from any retailer, which will be the tournament badges and hence how I can get an official shirt.

https://t.co/AuJ5vGyf9O

[Lawrence Kay @Lawrence__Kay]

@DoubleEph Yes, he was definitely of the type.