[Bones McCoy]

Will Gove’s real boss want that lucrative publishing advance returned for books he never wrote?

Or, was it a bribe, already repaid in favours and goodwill.

Or, will we see Pob down Tesco, buying a pack of crayons.

[Bones McCoy]

And it's goodbye from him.

[Youngian]

Michael Gove, a well known crusader against anti red tape neoliberalism.

[Tubby Isaacs]

As a Times columnist and opposition MP, he'd have led the charge, and maybe he did as Education Secretary too (he was notorious for getting involved with other people's briefs).

But he did get his head down on housing, giving some poor social providers well deserved rockets. I am entitled to believe he tried, and that there was (putting it politely) a certain inertia that Labour could sort this stuff out.

[Youngian]

Not a good start for a new Spectator editor. Does he know the magazine isn't aimed at Rory Stewart and Sayeeda Warsi? Guido Fawkes predictably unimpressed.

Eyebrows have been raised pretty high in response to Michael Gove’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Gove said she had “significant weaknesses” but was “the lesser of two evils.” Those “weaknesses” have been painfully on display today…

Gove said on the BBC’s Today podcast:

“I would follow Dick Cheney’s advice, and I would vote for Kamala Harris.”

At the same time Gove refused to back Badenoch on the record because “the Spectator doesn’t back candidates, it backs causes.” Media sources question the wisdom of the Spectator’s new editor endorsing the most left-wing Democratic candiate in some years. They point out that fledgling US edition of the magazine is loss-making – sales may not be helped by this intervention. https://order-order.com/2024/10/17/eyeb ... la-harris/

[Watchman]

Most “left wing candidate”, Bernie says “hold my beer “