Lewis Goodall

1 week ago | goodallandgoodluck.substack.com | Lewis Goodall

Last night, when the push notification about Liverpool appeared on your phone- what was your reaction? Horror, worry, disbelief, for sure; but I’d bet anything that there was something else, a very particular political angst in the pit of your stomach- at the very least there was for me. A sharp intake of breath accompanied by an anxiety: if this is terrorism, if it’s been committed by a certain type of terrorist (and even if it wasn’t)- what comes next?

2 weeks ago | goodallandgoodluck.substack.com | Lewis Goodall

Close your eyes, hold your breath, listen hard- and it all comes back. The fevered talk of surrender, the endless tedious cascade of zero sum arguments, accompanied by the sum of zero insights- an obsession with fish. To listen to British political discourse on 19th May 2025 was to be transported to the endless slog of the late 2010s, or to put it another way, to my late twenties.

3 weeks ago | goodallandgoodluck.substack.com | Lewis Goodall

There is a a solitary comfort for Labour MPs right now: however poorly in any particular area they might believe their government is doing, there is time for them to do better. Except, as one Labour parliamentarian ruefully whispered to me the other day- “there is less time than ministers seem to think.” Nearly one-fifth of their mandate, “one day in five we’ve got”, has already expired. That first fifth should have been, on paper, some of the most productive of the entire parliamentary term.

1 month ago | goodallandgoodluck.substack.com | Lewis Goodall

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1 month ago | goodallandgoodluck.substack.com | Lewis Goodall

Reform won the Runcorn by-election by just *six* votes- that’s the narrowest margin for any by-election since 1892. For once, I’m glad I set the alarm clock for 530am rather than staying up. Thanks for reading Goodall and Good Luck! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I’ll write a far more detailed analysis of the locals this weekend when we have the full set.