Mark Carney Showed Us How to Beat Trumpism. Will Anyone in the UK Pay Attention?

Reform is on the march, the Tories are folding, and Labour is whispering. Silence won’t stop a populist tide.

It’s still 24 degrees in London, which would normally be lovely if I weren’t mildly melting - and if democracy weren’t also on a slow simmer. Yesterday hit 28, the hottest May day on record so far, and honestly, the weather’s not the only thing overheating.

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While most of us were trying to stay cool, Reform quietly racked up a string of council seats in the local elections. And if that wasn’t enough of a warning shot, Andrea Jenkyns - she of the middle finger and relentless culture war cosplay - is now a directly elected mayor.

This isn’t fringe anymore. It’s creeping in through the cracks.

In this week’s Byline Times column, I write about how Canada just showed us the way out of this mess. Mark Carney didn’t dodge Trumpism - he stared it down, called it what it was, and beat it. That matters. Because in the UK, we’re doing the opposite: political silence, strategic cowardice, and appeasement dressed up as pragmatism.

We’ve got four years until the next general election. Reform is rising. The Tories are collapsing into culture war nonsense. And Labour? Well… they’re still acting like if they don’t mention Trump or Farage, maybe they’ll both vanish in a puff of polling data.

They won’t. And we’ll pay for that silence.

Read the full column here:

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We’ve got time. But not much. And the heat’s only rising - from every direction. Bring water. Bring clarity. And bring a spine.