Will Dunn

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Business editor, New Statesman

Thames Water imposes a hosepipe ban on ten million people the day after Andy Burnham, who has suggested he'll put Thames Water in special administration, arrives in Downing Street.
What’s at Stake for Beef as Flesh-Eating Screwworm Cases Exceed Two Dozen
A list of donations by Christopher Harborne to the Conservative Party
"please don't write that we're all mad old white people"
"I can’t be bought by anybody,” Farage declared, a phrase – along with “I’m definitely a qualified surgeon” and “there’s no proof I poisoned him” – worded to offer reassurance, but which invites further questions. According to his many submissions to the MPs’ register of interests, Farage’s time is very much for sale. Since he was elected as an MP in July 2024, he has recorded 1,513 hours of work for people other than the voters who elected him. Over the roughly 400 working days (minus statutory holiday requirements) in that period, that’s more than three and a half hours per day of additional work. What a grafter! Parliamentary surveys have found that MPs commonly work more than 60 hours per week; if Farage was working as hard as the average backbencher for his constituents, he’d be putting in 16-hour days.
Keir Starmer has attempted fiscal consolidation, and failed.
Never ending chaos
The members of the Nursery Oversight Committee are now clear that it would in retrospect have been possible to make a better decision than appointing the primordial titan, Kronos, to run the Baby Room. The previous manager, Susan, was experienced and well liked. Kronos was known to the public for having devoured his own children as soon as they were born, in a failed attempt to thwart an ancient prophecy (a story confirmed by a number of well-known paintings). These actions had been recognised in the due-diligence check on Kronos, as were other issues (castrating his father with a sickle, impregnating his sister), but the thinking was that this had been a long time ago, he had since disgorged the children, and that an elder deity like Kronos would bring serious name recognition. This was indeed the case – but, as it turned out, for exactly the wrong reasons.
"The woman next to me giggled when I sought reassurance that Mogg Unbuttoned would involve no actual unbuttoning. But what if the nightmare suggested by the title was real? Mogg is more bivalve than man, an oyster in a double-breasted suit. What if his nanny arrived on stage to ease open the ivory buttons of a shirt inherited from his grandfather? What soft and mottled chicken flesh, what damp, fungus-grey horrors, dangled within? I steeled myself and wondered if it was possible to scream and vomit at the same time."
A New Statesman article suggesting replacing CEOs with AI
Screenshot of a New Statesman article which reads "Our GDP will take off, like China in the Noughties, if we can just make sure none of our women’s volleyball players have dicks."