I enjoyed this interview with Michael Heseltine:
Hard to disagree with this diagnosis:
This repeated failure to deliver people’s aspirations after the 2008 crash, Brexit and Covid means we now have this political momentum for change and, with it, populism. It’s a race to the bottom and, sadly, Farage is winning.
I really hope someone makes a road trip film about this:
we [Thatcher and Heseltine] were never friends. Ken Clarke was a friend and so was Douglas Hurd. “We all went on holiday to the Galapagos and saw the blue-footed booby, an exotic bird.”