Kemi Badenoch's recent ridiculing of the prime minister over a supposed U-turn on digital ID plans (Keir Starmer denies change to digital ID plan is yet another U-turn, 14 January) is the latest example of a frustratingly narrow view of leadership. To the Conservative leader, adapting a policy is a sign of no sense of direction; to those of us who work in product management, it looks like necessary iteration of the process.
Watching Kirk's memorial service, Greene said she was struck by the contrast between the forgiveness of Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, and Trump's onstage remarks that, unlike Kirk, he chooses to hate his opponent. It just shows where his heart is, she later texted Draper, adding: It just shows where his heart is. And that's the difference, with her having a sincere Christian faith, and proves that he does not have any faith.
He's the middle-manager who talks as if he's the CEO, a beacon of workplace inclusivity in his own head but a bigoted chauvinist as soon as he opens his mouth. And listening to him creates a mix of familiarity and embarrassment-by-proxy that turns out to be surprisingly pleasurable. Ricky Gervais's cringe-making general manager of a soul-destroyingly dull Slough-based paper merchant stopped being a regular presence on British TV over two decades ago, but the many comedic characters that he spawned across the globe have outlived him.
It took a few weeks for the theory to spread to X, Reddit, TikTok, and other platforms. But once it did, it became the go-to comeback for conservative posts and government propaganda alike. "You wanna do a ride-along in the back seat of a big plane and cosplay being a pilot? Of course you do, you're twelve," user @jjellisart said in response to a video of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a fighter jet.