This is Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter, exclusively for Reaction subscribers.
Service has been slower than usual on this newsletter in the last few weeks, for which apologies. Getting whacked by the latest edition of Covid induced brain fog and slowed me down for longer than expected. And then ten days ago I was in for an eye operation (removing a cataract, with the next to be done in a few months time).
On the upside, it really is true what they say about the wonders of contemporary eye surgery. I can see again.
A week ago today I wrote the paragraphs below in an attempt to get a new edition of this newsletter out, but my eyes so soon post-operation couldn’t adjust and I had to abandon it.
Here are the opening paragraphs. How out of date the stuff on Labour appears seven days later, given the events of the last week in Britain.
Almost a month in and it is clear there is goodwill out there towards Sir Keir Starmer and the new administration. And no wonder.
