HOW will journalists live with no-drama Starmer? Since 2016, five long prime ministers ago, we have lived with itBrexit, the day the news sped up and never stopped, Johnson, Truss, the death of Elizabeth II, the rise and fall of Sunak - and we are addicted. Now the narcissists, grifters and showmen are done (though I don't include Sunak in that) and we face a lawyer who loves listening to people, and paperwork.
It will be different. The carnival of eight years is over, and we must adjust to a new reality which I hope will feel less like an awful, self-hating kind of entertainment, and more like functional and therefore "boring!", to quote Nadine Dorries, who screamed it at Starmer in the chamber-government. It was narcotic, sure, but the country burnt down.
I hear Labour is fixated on policies that don't cost money so how about this? Open up the national parks for wild camping: landowners have been spoiled for long enough. At the moment you can only camp overnight on Dartmoor, and that's a loophole, and landowners tried to prevent it, because that's what they do, and were defeated in the courts last year. To celebrate and because a newspaper asked me - I went.
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