Please, please, please… 
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Definitely staying up now
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That’d be good but personally would get most pleasure from seeing Farage lose Clacton.
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Let’s hope for both 
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I started a Substack a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t really expect my first publication to be Political but here we are. A few thoughts on the result
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Nice one Joe. I’ll follow now!
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Nice words Joe, re Farage, wonder if PR will be his next ‘project’ given the votes/seats that Reform managed. His endorsement could make for some interesting conflicts of loyalty in the years to come.
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It’s heartening to see the Lib Dems secure so many seats. They ended up being the viable third option more than reform in a lot of constituencies.
Given the far right gains across the rest of Europe i do take solace in the fact that we’re not there at least for the moment.
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Prof Chris Grey has always had the best analysis of Brexit and today’s post is the best thing I’ve read on the election.
Worth it just for the use of the word ‘priapic’ to describe Johnson 
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There may be, there will be, disappointments, and perhaps worse, ahead, but today there is something to celebrate. It isn’t simply the defeat of a political party. It is the defeat of a political ethos of gross dishonesty, unforgiveable incompetence, corruption, entitlement, and cruelty. That ethos has degraded our institutions, poisoned our political culture, and debased our international reputation. It gave us Brexit, of course, but it also gave power to mediocrities, dullards, charlatans, fantasists, fanatics, thugs, and liars.
@TimIndulge And thx for the link!
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Overall the pattern of the vote was clearly to get rid of the Tories. In areas where Labour was second to Tories, the Labour vote increased. However where the Lib Dems were second to the Tories, the votes went to Lib Dem not Labour. If the overall +2% of vote share for Labour and relatively low turnout demonstrates there’s not huge universal love for Starmer coming in, the total destruction of the Conservatives shows the entire country was in “Fuck The Tories” mode.
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Yes that seems a shrewd assessment, and also a sentiment I’m happy to get behind
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Two points I’d make - Starmer is probably the most left wing PM since Harold Wilson, and the House of Commons has 500 out of 650 MPs on the liberal/left for the first time probably ever. These are things to celebrate!
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What is Mavis reading in ‘The Cabin’
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Nice article about the connection between painting and jazz with the supreme artist Stanley Whitney. Stanley Whitney: Vibrations of the Day | Gagosian Quarterly
Robert Macfarlane - The Old ways
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