Pinned
I am so pleased and honoured to announce that Bloomsbury will be publishing my 4th book. Provisionally titled ‘Power Cut’, I’ve wanted to write this exploration of why we don’t learn lessons from scandals for about a decade.
Isabel Hardman
55.1K posts
Isabel Hardman
@IsabelHardman
Assistant Editor @spectator, 📻 R4 Week in Westminster, Times Radio 📚 Fighting for Life,The Natural Health Service, Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
- Incredible how normal it is for women to be told not to go out alone after dark. Yet how strange and inexplicable this would seem if the same instruction - or even a curfew - were issued to men.
- Boris Johnson saying no one told him the Downing Street gathering was against the rules is a new level of dissociation, almost like he’s spent two years watching someone else be prime minister and is now scratching his head about the decisions they’ve taken.
- Keir Starmer's current approach seems to be to agree with Boris Johnson but in a special disappointed voice.
- I don’t know how long it will last, but after about a month of despair, the fog in my mind has lifted. Is so amazing when your mind starts working again. Extraordinary. Am still prouder of my fight against mental illness than anything else I’ve done.
- Ahhh my cat just walked in after being missing for six weeks!
- Craig Whittaker has just come out of the lobby and said" I am fucking furious and I don’t give a fuck anymore”.'
- It’s been a busy few days but I’m amazed we all missed Scotland leaving the UK in the midst of it.The UK and Scotland must continue to work together to ensure businesses and consumers have the certainty they need as we leave the EU:
- Personally think that those who, like me, have had every possible educational advantage in life, might want to look up to someone like Angela Rayner, who got her qualifications through an infinitely harder route 🤷🏻♀️
- I can’t stop thinking about how utterly horrible this pandemic will be for victims of domestic abuse and coercive control, pulled even more tightly into the web of tyranny spun by their abusers as they are shut indoors with them.
- Our son, Jacob Arran Henry Woodcock, arrived safely last night. May you know every day how much you are loved. Cannot say enough how utterly magnificent @KingstonHospNHS have been through the past 10 days of fun and games. @JZWoodcock
- Genuinely quite shocked by Boris Johnson describing as 'humbug' Paula Sheriff's complaint about his language in which she talked about Jo Cox and said that she and other colleagues had received death threats. I've transcribed what happened:
- I can’t quite believe this. But someone has found my bike. He messaged me and it is on its way to me in an uber. Driver just messaged to say he’s got it. Am crying with happiness. Life is good - even for mad people like me. Thank you everyone.
