Iain Martin

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Iain Martin

This is Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter for subscribers. How did you spend Liberation Day? Out partying with the crowds or at home quietly with family? The highlight was - obviously - the traditional President’s Liberation Day Speech, filmed in his back garden this time, where he delivered a series of bracing points. We have all been ripping off his country and it stops here, he said.

1 month ago | reaction.life | Iain Martin

This is Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter for paying subscribers to Reaction. To say that shares in Rachel Reeves have declined in value since the Chancellor presented her Budget last autumn would be an understatement.

1 month ago | reaction.life | Iain Martin

This is Iain Martin’s weekly newsletter for subscribers. There is a skill modern British Prime Ministers need above all else if they want to stay in post and accomplish anything which endures. Yes, of course, they have to be a hard worker, because the job is relentless, and they must also be ruthless when it comes to dealing with their enemies and their friends too. They need one eye for internal party management and another for communication with the country.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Iain Martin

I'll be honest, rightly or wrongly, I had hoped to ski alongside the red-hot lava, mimicking some of the viral posts I'd seen on social media. Despite alarmist reports, skiing near the eruption was not banned and my guide Mirto was keen to take me. My problem was finding skis to use. No amount of pleading - or offering to pay more - could persuade any of the local hire shops to rent me skis if they were going to be used on the volcano's south side.

1 month ago | reaction.life | Iain Martin

Thank you for being a subscriber to Reaction, and a warm welcome to those of you who have signed up in the last week. I hope you are enjoying the evening briefing from my colleague Caitlin. This weekly newsletter for paying subscribers is the only place to read me now and if you upgrade to paid you know you are also supporting independent journalism and the work of our team. Thanks again - Iain Martin.