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"Black Monday (19 October 1987). After five years of the world’s global financial markets acting like a cross between a Jilly Cooper hero and Del Boy, it suddenly all went wrong..." jonn.substack.com/p/a-history-of…

For last week's @TheNewWorldmag column I came up with 13 things you need to know about - you won't see this one coming - beavers. I think this week's is about the Strait of Hormuz? I contain multitudes. thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge-n…

"Are we sure it is them, not the angry manchild who lacks the balls to put his name to a quote, who’s the knobhead who deserves booting from the party, here?" On last week's Labour purge. jonn.substack.com/p/weak-weak-we…

Sometimes the good guys win @JonnElledge @jamesrbuk capx.co/nimby-watch-do…

"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened." This week's NS column asks: how can you have progressive politics without any sense of progress? newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

"Self-nomination automatically disqualifies the nominee, apparently. So that’s me stuffed." Last week's Nerd's Eye View column for the New World concerned the Nobel Prize. thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge-n…

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

"Probably food poisoning, but I find the implication he just stuffed his face with eels until he literally died both amusing and, frankly, relatable." Eels, moles, cocaine and morphine: some noteworthy British monarch deaths jonn.substack.com/p/eels-moles-c…

I'm on Mounjaro, and not afraid to say it, writes @JonnElledge. Enough of the weird embarrassment about the medication, already. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

"Many people prefer not to talk about it. That’s their choice, but – well, bugger that. I’m on it, I’ve had blessedly few side effects, and I feel absolutely no shame about any of it." It finally happened: I wrote about being on weight loss jabs newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

"However partial it is, I’m sure this understanding of how the names were chosen will be very comforting should any of these exercises end up going a bit Able Archer 83 on us." Some notes on NATO naming conventions jonn.substack.com/i/167905105/so…

Another newsletter with a self-indulgent personal opening, on truth and authorship. Also this week: some notes on NATO naming conventions jonn.substack.com/p/stranger-tha…

🚌 Your hometime listening! 🚉 The commentariat talk up a Farage government, a new party of the Left (SPLITTERS!!) and would PR sort it all out? 🔮 @hannahfearn @rafaelbehr @JonnElledge & @Nndroid gaze into the misty future… 🔮 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

"All this is all very enjoyable. What worries me is the suspicion that those running the Labour party might be laughing along." Written one of those columns that'll get everyone mad at me at once I like to throw out there once in a while. newstatesman.com/uncategorized/…

“Worry about the centre, the left have nowhere else to go” may have been a viable strategy when the left did have nowhere else to go. But British politics has been fragmenting for a long time. 🖊️ @JonnElledge newstatesman.com/uncategorized/…

"Mr A has a problem: he struggles to cross the road without nearly getting mown down, in a surprisingly slapstick fashion." Some notes on a forgotten British filmmaker. jonn.substack.com/p/the-greatest…

Very much enjoyed reviewing a year of Starmergeddon on last Thursday's Politics Uncensored, with Zoe Grunewald and Ali Milani. open.spotify.com/episode/3xDmGG…

"One critic of the deal was recovering Conservative leadership contender James Cleverly. This is from some perspectives odd, as he did much of the work on it himself." This week's nerd's eye view column is about the Chagos Islands. thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge-n…