Newsletter #63: Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reform agenda
PLUS: Peace in Ukraine?
Good evening.
A friend told me at dinner recently that there was once a day on the BBC, many decades ago, where the newsreader informed the country that nothing had happened that day, and that was all there was to the programme.
Sometimes, producing this newsletter, which is meant to be on British politics, I feel some sympathy with that newsreader. With 2029 a strange sort of singularity on the horizon, one cannot help but feel that even this government’s most significant announcements amount to little more than trivia. There’s a long way still to go.
(An earlier, unedited version of this newsletter was published this morning by mistake. Apologies for filling up your inbox!)
This newsletter’s agenda: Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reform agenda (paid); Russia has now presented something that can at least be the basis to negotiate a final deal — but will it be enough to end the war? (paid)
