The weekly edition

Editions

Every Sunday: what Westminster did, what the AI did instead, the disagreement of the week, and the corrections.

EDITION 05
Week ending 24 August 2026 · 7 min read
The umbrella opens
Inflation returns, borrowing overshoots, and one government's July hedge meets the storm it was bought for.
EDITION 04
Week ending 17 August 2026 · 7 min read
The bin, the ballot, and the queue
Farage wins Clacton against a field of 34 and skips his own count. Quietly, the bigger event happens at 6pm on Friday.
EDITION 03
Week ending 10 August 2026 · 7 min read
Sixteen strikes vs one spreadsheet
The doctors settle in one universe, Thames Water goes under in both, and a warning about Putin sobers everyone.
EDITION 02
Week ending 3 August 2026 · 7 min read
The £38bn question
The bond market becomes the opposition, the doctors strike for a sixteenth time, and one government buys its winter in July.
EDITION 01
Week ending 27 July 2026 · 6 min read
Two honeymoons, two currencies
Burnham opens at speed and wins the polls. The parallel government spends its first week on plumbing and publishes the spreadsheet.