Cory Hazlehurst

'Interesting, but hardly informative'. A Croslandite, not a Blairite. Likes cricket, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. OAFC fan. One half of Not Enough Champagne.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

"A lot of people doubt as a legitimate philosophical position. They think of themselves as the middle, whereas, of course, really they're nowhere. No battle was ever won by spectators, was it?"

George Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

I haven’t had time to digest and write about Suella Braverman’s defection to Reform, but I have compared Robert Jenrick to Tony Benn. https://t.co/6DkHeFxb5u

[John Cotton @johnlbcotton]

It’s time to win Britain’s future back. Vote for change today. #VoteLabour 🌹🗳️

[John O'Shea @politicalhackuk]

Why not both?

[Marc Morris @Longshanks1307]

The most politically disastrous retreat from Normandy by an English leader since 1203.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Perhaps three Americans will be aware of the fact that USA just beat Pakistan in cricket - biggest upset in the game in quite a while.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

@StuartWilksHeeg Indeed. They've got to try something! Though a lot of it reminds me of this:

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

@StuartWilksHeeg Also in 2017 the Tories made two huge mistakes - planning a presidential campaign around Theresa May and completely botching their plans for social care. Don't see Labour making a similar type of mistake this time - but guess we'll see if you're right and they blink!

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

@StuartWilksHeeg That's possible, but I wonder if it ends up being a mirror image of Labour's 2019 campaign instead. Too many eye-catching policies that may poll well but voters don't trust the party to deliver them.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

It took something pretty special to bring @NoChampagnePod. Rishi Sunak had to call an election and make a complete dog's breakfast of the whole affair. I talk with @AcousticRadical about that.

https://t.co/RIwojVzD0u

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

The deluge launch drowned out by D:Ream.

A brewery visit with a teetotal PM, so no chance of a piss up.

Now a site visit to something famous for sinking.

Is there a double agent in CCHQ, and were they a headline writer in a previous life? 🤦‍♀️

Our candidates deserve better.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

This is going to be a very long election campaign.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak asks Welsh voters if they are looking forward to "all the football" before being quickly told Wales haven't qualified for the Euros

[@TomLarkinSky]

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Things can only get wetter

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

Fundamentally, Joe Biden is a good man.
Fundamentally, Donald Trump is not.

Now, you can disagree with policy positions if you want, but in terms of the nature of the two men? It’s obvious. It couldn’t be more obvious.

https://t.co/5gIOW9khg8

[Elvis Buñuelo @Mr_Considerate]

My god, Denis Healey has been reincarnated as a bird!

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

Wow.

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

Far too much drama at Tata Steel today.

[chess24 @chess24com]

And the final twist! Gukesh, with little time, repeats moves and Pragg successfully claims threefold repetition in a position where he's absolutely lost! DRAW!

#TataSteelChess

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

25 years! Mixed feelings about having great Wijk an Zee games older than some of this year's #TataSteelChess players! 😂 But I appreciate their thoughts and this tribute very much. Special tournaments inspire special games!

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

Very "Henry II in around 1164" vibes here.

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

EXCL - Bishops in the House of Lords voted with the government in just five votes in an entire year.

They voted against the government whip 276 times.

Bishops are expected to mount a new war on Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill when it returns to the Lords

https://t.co/ymrEjoJKOo

[Cory Hazlehurst @paperbackrioter]

Sunak is like someone with a computer that isn't working, manically jabbing all of the buttons in the hope that this might magically bring it back to life again.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

NEW: Sunak resets election strategy from change to continuity

— Conservative source confirms there has been an “evolution” in approach, from the change candidate speech at conference to “stick with the plan” now

https://t.co/ZVj3fhHEUI