Dominic Cummings.

 Perhaps the most thoughtful and interesting person today - who is thinking about the - malaise of government in Britain. Dominic Cummings had of course direct experience of working with Michael Gove at the Department of Education and Boris Johnson, when he was prime minister. He is excoriating in his assessment of the calibre of staff in these departments. He has a radical solution to the underlying systemic issues. Basically the old antediluvian civil service - is broken and beyond repair. The trajectory of travel is Darwinian, in other words unless they radically adjust they will - be obliterated by advances in science and technology and in particular AI. The Whitehall farce is coming to an inglorious end the denouement will be painful for those on deck at the time. The prime minister’s character is destiny - in other words Starmer isn’t the right person for the job and will eventually implode. The touchstone for good governance is - policy, people and management. Get these right and there might be hope. He is interviewed on The Daily T podcast available on YouTube. 

The ray of sunshine is that we have a long history of radical adaption to the historic forces like: technology, life sciences and AI. Other countries, with a history of violence insurrection and civil unrest and chaos - like France, Russia and Germany - will not be so lucky. We have been able to adapt relatively quickly to these sudden seismic political and social forces that have in - other countries brought civil war and untold destruction. Let’s hope he is right in this assessment. 

The big change however is the increased popularity of Nigel Farage and Reform across the country. They are way out in front of Labour and the Tories. Starmer and Badenoch are not doing very well and rapidly losing support of their own supporters. On Channel 4 tonight there is a programme about the possibility of Nigel Farage, becoming prime minister. That was considered only a few months ago as an absurd idea, but not any longer. It’s moved to the very top of the political agenda and Starmer and Badenoch are both very worried.