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By: Will Cooling

Will Cooling writes about politics and pop culture at It Could Be Said substack

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  • Labour go on about Liz Truss but are repeating all Rishi Sunak’s mistakes

    Opinion

    Too many in Labour congratulate themselves for rescuing the country from Liz Truss, forgetting that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt did most of the work. No wonder backbenchers are angry about a policy platform that’s barely distinct form their Tory predecessors, says Will Cooling There’s no shortage of things that have gone wrong with the [...]

  • Kemi Badenoch is still the best the Tories have got

    Opinion

    Kemi Badenoch’s listless leadership is still better than a divisive alternative like Robert Jenrick or James Cleverly, says Will Cooling It’s just over a year since Nigel Farage re-entered frontline politics. What started as an inevitable defeat for the Conservative party in Clacton has become an existential rout.  After they slumped to their worst election [...]

  • To actually preserve the memory of WWII we should look to entertainment

    Opinion

    Reverence has a place in WWII commemorations, but if we actually want to preserve the memory of war we must look to entertainment.

  • What went wrong with Doctor Who?

    May 3, 2025

    Overcomplicated and expensive, Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who reboot no longer works for today’s television landscape, says Will Cooling These are difficult times for Doctor Who, with the show celebrating the 20th anniversary of its triumphant return to British screens with some of the worst viewing figures in the programme’s long history.  What makes this [...]

  • Can Mario rescue Nintendo from Switch 2 pricing backlash?

    April 17, 2025

    Forget Princess Peach, it's Nintendo that might need rescuing as it battles tariffs, inflation and its Switch 2 pricing backlash.

  • Reeves should be honest: income tax is going up

    April 2, 2025

    Income tax threshold freezes are a de facto tax rise but the revenue won’t be fully realised until the end of the parliament. She should adjust rates now while there’s still time to improve public services before the next election? And fix distortive cliff edges while she’s at it, says Will Cooling Rachel Reeves has [...]

  • Labour is targeting the disabled not because it’s hard, but because it’s easy

    March 19, 2025

    Labour's cut to disability benefits is not the mark of a government making "tough decisions", but desperate ones, writes Will Cooling.

  • Starmer must not exploit Ukraine crisis for right-wing votes

    March 5, 2025

    With Trump and Vance attacking causes and values that British voters hold dear, Keir Starmer has to work harder to convey to a country shocked and appalled by the American administration’s behaviour whose side he is on, says Will Cooling As Sir Keir Starmer flew back to London last week, he could have been forgiven [...]

  • America first means Britain needs a customs union with Europe

    February 18, 2025

    Whatever one thinks of Brexit, industrial goods were always the area where it made least sense for Britain to go it alone. And now that it’s clear Europe can no longer rely on America, deepening cooperation on defence production is a no-brainer, says Will Cooling It has only been four weeks since Donald Trump’s second [...]

  • Is the government finally seeing sense on net zero?

    February 5, 2025

    The government has realised that planes will still take off, even in a lower carbon future, so they may as well do it from Heathrow. They should apply the same logic to fossil fuels and allow drilling in the North Sea, says Will Cooling The New Year has clearly brought with it new energy from [...]

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