Steve Akehurst
Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
persuasionuk.org/about
strongmessagehere.substack.com
- I regret to say I think we will need to hang this in the Louvre
- Basically the entire epitaph of this govt and modern social democracy writ large. Too good, too on the nose. See it and weep
- I don’t even know if sinister is the right word for most Mandelson-Epstein exchanges. Above all they are just pathetic. A man so clearly obsessed by money and status - a life he felt entitled to but couldn’t afford - that it corroded any decency and duty left inside him. Good riddance.
- Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein - who then helped him pursue a $4m job The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...
