Lewis Goodall

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

Great chatting through today’s @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social polling with @lewisgoodall.com on @lbc.co.uk this morning. Upshot: the Burnham bounce is real as Labour consolidates the left vote whilst the right remains divided. But it’s the Tories - not Reform - now in 2nd youtu.be/cQGPMT587vc?...

TV news is in crisis- and the way it operates guarantees its extinction in the attention economy. I've thought a lot about how it needs to change. On Wednesday, I had the honour of delivering the Steve Hewlett RTS Lecture. Watch/read below. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/can-tv-new...

Was an honour to present the RTS Steve Hewlett memorial last night on reinventing TV news for the 21s century. So here it is: "Same Screen, Different Rules" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogRZ...

Proper honour to deliver the RTS Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture on Wednesday on the future of broadcast news. Hopefully will ruffle some feathers. Tickets available below rts.org.uk/events/lewis...

🤯 *6.8m views* for Sunday with Lewis Goodall content and clips last week. New record for us. Reinventing the Sunday political show one click at a time! Place to be for politics as the political week starts. 1000-1200 and streamed in full Testament to incredible @lbc.co.uk team

'He's executed the 'peace through strength' argument pretty well.' Should Donald Trump have won the Nobel Peace Prize? @lewisgoodall.com hears from supporter Greg Swenson.

"He really is just a twat ... tiny dick energy" Can't find a more apt description of Pete Hegseth than this from @lewisgoodall.com on today's @thenewsagents.co.uk

“There is not a political figure in Britain who has enjoyed a better press, on the basis of such scant success.”

"No matter how often [the Tory press] write that 'Badenoch had had a good week' - it is not a message you can direct-debit into people's brains until they vote Conservative." This is excellent 👇

Great piece about the Conservative Right living in an alternative universe. 'There is nothing so powerful in British politics as the right wing unreality machine. It is its own Faraway Tree, a place where anything is possible, where anything can be manifested, if you think it hard enough.'

I actually quite like Kemi Badenoch. But she is subject to a myth she doesn't deserve: a Tory recovery which just doesn't exist. Despite endless positive coverage, the Tories are still going backwards. And they deserve to be. Piece from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...

@lewisgoodall.com on super form in this 👏 youtu.be/-g5ZwVGMxl8?...

"There is no political figure in Britain that gets a better press than Kemi Badenoch right now. "The Tory press are manifesting a Tory recovery. They're desperate for it to happen," says @lewisgoodall.com. Is a Badenoch bounce real, or has the right wing media made it all up?

Any political party which tells you money doesn’t buy influence is either lying to you or has never attended a political fundraiser. Currency is access- and that’s for everyone. My opener to Sunday with Lewis Goodall @lbc.co.uk this morning. youtu.be/uLMuirAe--I?...

Am on @lbc with @lewisgoodall.com shortly talking about how two crypto billionaires have given £72m to Reform and why British democracy is for sale.

Astounding story. Reform receives a *second* £36m donation from a crypto billionaire in 48 hours. Christopher Harborne- the £5m benefactor- has matched Ben Delo's money pound for pound. £72m in total. Approaching US politics sort of money. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Sunday with Lewis Goodall was back with a bang this week. 4.7m views on socials. Record numbers watching live stream. Well over 5m total reach. Place to be for politics on a Sunday morning.

This is smart analysis. I had not thought of it previously, but it would be politically suicidal before the Holborn and St Pancras by-election for the government to go ahead with: 1. More drilling in the North Sea; and 2. Mahmood's immigration reforms.

Makerfield shaped the government Burnham formed- Holborn might just shape the government it becomes. Latest from me on Polanski's big gamble and why this by-election could be among the most important yet. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/zack-polan...

Two train journeys across the UK this week. Both delayed by more than 4 hours between them. Hundreds of pounds for the privilege. Joke infrastructure, joke country.

"She had the politics of authenticity before the politics of authenticity became a thing." "She managed to make both Republicans and Democrats adore her." @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com reflect on how Dolly Parton did politics, without ever doing politics.

Dolly Parton dead- hard to think of a more famous woman in the world. A few years ago, there was a poll which showed she was the cultural figure both Democrats and Republicans most mutually loved and admired. Virtually unique. Testament to her achievement.

This will be a national crisis- adding to the profound generational inequities which already bedevil Britain. Working class kids have long not had the support they needed as the mass employment industrial world disappeared. Will we repeat the mistake with graduates? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Listened to this podcast yesterday. @lewisgoodall.com On the spot and interesting.

To echo Lewis, we are hiring.

Excellent @lewisgoodall.com / @thenewsagents.co.uk piece on how the Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Edi Rama plan for luxury developments on Sazan Island and the Vjosa–Narta wetlands has birthed the anti-elite Flamingo Revolution and weeks of protests on the streets of Tirana. youtu.be/iMx1YBUoGpg?...

Great opportunity to come and work on @TheNewsAgents as the show gets bigger and bigger- get in touch if interested. uk.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ex...

Jason Arday and the moral panic machine | @lewisgoodall.com goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

Much has been said about this tragedy, but this sums it up thoughtfully and clearly. May Jason, at least, rest in peace. @lewisgoodall.com Jason Arday and the moral panic machine goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

'On the contemporary right, wrongdoing is too often a personal failing when committed by an ally, but a systemic revelation when committed by an opponent.' On (Rod Liddle and) Jason Arday.

On a day when large chunks of British media doubling down or scaling back on the tragic death of Jason Arday, refreshing to read and see another perspective which is moral by @lewisgoodall.com

Jason Arday and the tragic moral panic machine New piece from me goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not now. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves serious questions as to whether the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are Qs for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.

And now time for that uniquely British summer tradition: where we castigate ourselves, our education system and most of all our young people for going on to be better educated than ever before.

"Where it went very wrong was with Liz Truss, when she only appointed people who supported her to cabinet. We all know where that ended..." Why is factionalism so hard for modern party leaders to get a grip on, and will it tear the two-party system apart?