Robert Hutton

@RobDotHutton

Political sketches and film columnist for @TheCriticMag, co-host of classic cinema love-in @WarMovieTheatre. Only posting updates here. Find me on Bluesky.

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Robert Hutton @RobDotHutton Sep 18

Extraordinary Correspondence: coming June 2027. A new game is afoot.

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"Actually, the Kindertransport was bad."

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Interesting from Katie Lam in The Times. The institutions and assumptions of the postwar world now find little favour among much of the contemporary right

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Well, this was nice.

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As you celebrate today, spare a thought for Nigel Farage, who had simply no way of knowing that Donald Trump would turn out to be exactly the person he always obviously was. thecritic.co.uk/the-great-dist…

As Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions began, Nigel Farage was staring into the middle distance, like a man whose dream of running a Donald Trump-style kleptocracy was over before it had really begun. It was only hours since he’d confidently assured GB News viewers that they didn’t need to believe the lying American pollsters. After all, he’d said, Elon Musk was a very smart guy. He wouldn’t have wasted $450 million!

In the rows in front of the Reform leader, the Liberal Democrats were ecstatic. There are countries closer to Britain than the USA, but none where the villains so helpfully dominate the internet and speak English. To look at Daisy Cooper, you’d have thought that every vote for James Talarico was really a vote to introduce proportional representation to Westminster.

Robert Hutton @RobDotHutton Nov 2

A debate on immigration in which no one was entirely honest: my SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/ilr-ilr-pants-…

Shabana Mahmood rose, she said, to make “a statement on THIS government’s policy” on settlement for immigrants. The emphasis was intended to convey the Labour orthodoxy that the government led by Andy Burnham, in which Mahmood is a dynamic and forward-looking Home Secretary, is entirely different from the bad old government led by Keir Starmer, in which the Home Secretary was a total loser called Shabana Mahmood.

Fortunately for the Home Secretary, she was far from the only person in the Commons attempting evasive manoeuvres. Reform’s complaint that immigration had been much too high under both main parties was somewhat undermined by being delivered by Robert Jenrick, an actual Tory immigration minister. A man with a measurable sense of shame would have declined to speak on the subject, but Reform doesn’t have any of those.