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Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room, author of Voodoo Histories, now Substacking with Notes from the Underground. Instagram: david_aaronovitch
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Killing Keir and admiring Andy

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By David Aaronovitch Verified
| Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch
The public eclipse of one man and the sunrise of another is a rich quarry for the mining of metaphor. As I think I have just proved. Some are visual. The New Statesman magazine, which practically launched the Starmer Out, Burnham In campaign last September, chose yet another Bayeux Tapestry take-off for its Starmer resignation cover. Naturally Andy Burnham was William the Conqueror and Keir Starmer was Harold and, tellingly, the Norman Conquest had become the Northern Conquest.
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Matt Goodwin's Ingerland

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By David Aaronovitch Verified
| Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch
MG to his companion, Derek: Let me look at the pic. The smile and the pint! Just like you-know-who and I think my smile is a bit better now, don’t you? A bit more authentic. And it hurts less than it used to. So (opens site on his phone) I’ll post it on X and Facebook. Just needs a clever message. Something patriotic and ordinary working bloke-like as well as having a funny dig at poor old Two-tier. Types on his phone. MG reads: “When England’s playing and Keir Starmer just resigned”. Perfect.
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Rejoice! Finally, it’s all falling apart for Reform

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