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You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
A Labour Justice minister has sent a letter to a constituent that AI checkers say is mostly if not all the product of a chatbot. At this point just replace MPs with Claude and be done with it…
Jake Richards wrote to ‘Sally’ in his constituency of Rother Valley over the weekend to congratulate her for running a café. Sally was designated an ‘inspiration local woman’ for International Women’s Day. Unfortunately she was not inspiration enough for Richards to bother coming up with slop-free copy…
Richards’ letter includes such sentences as: “Your café has become a welcoming space at the heart of the community, somewhere people know they can call in for a friendly face, a warm drink and a sense of belonging. Small independent businesses like yours play a vital role in bringing communities together, and your dedication to Dinnington truly shines through.” Guido has run it through five high-standard AI copy checkers which return results from 80% to 100% AI-generated – co-conspirators can try it themselves…
Good to see Richards implementing the MoJ’s “AI Action Plan” in his own free time. And if he did write this all with his own brain then Guido would suggest that is even worse…
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The Reform vs Restore battle is becoming more than an avatar of the personal dispute between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe. As both ambitions in both camps soar, the troops are getting involved, as anyone on X will have noticed this week…
Much of the tension revolves around the Tory past of Reform Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick. Former Tories are not always finding the brave new world to be smooth sailing…
In an example of one hot tempered post, Restore influencer Charlie Downes fired at Reform’s Jack Anderton:
I hope they’re paying you good money for this, Jack.
Jenrick is a traitor and you know it. pic.twitter.com/GZWDdO9qAY
— Charlie Downes (@cfdownes_) February 19, 2026
Now sources have shown Guido evidence that Downes himself once applied to join Jenrick’s team, keen to assist the man that many in Restore now accuse of high immigration politics. He also applied to join the press team last year, and was rejected. The outbreak of hostilities includes further claims that Restore staffers are “using Rupert Lowe’s money to throw a tantrum”. For Lowe’s part, he continues to make his scepticism of Farage’s path very clear…
There is intrigue on the Tory side too. Party sources point wearily at Restore Britain’s policy paper on ‘mass deportations,’ whose acknowledgements section includes a thank you to one of Katie Lam’s current staffers formerly shared with Team Jenrick. The same sources say Bidwell’s positions on the ECHR are closely reflected in Rupert Lowe’s policy as written there.
The question is whether all the online chatter will have any real-world electoral effects. Reform remain fully confident that Restore are simply not on the pitch…
Yesterday was the 58th anniversary of independence in Mauritius. A tough day for Starmer, whose government had been making private promises to the Mauritians that the Chagos sellout would be complete by that milestone, which had been driving the UK parliamentary timetable…
As the Mauritian press puts it, PM Ramgoolam – in his independence day speech – addressed the “economic situation, which he considers worrying. He attributed the current difficulties to the “catastrophic management of the economy” between 2014 and 2024, exacerbated by the war in the Middle East and delays in implementing the Chagos Treaty… Moody’s is now closely monitoring the country… stressing the need to avoid a downgrade of the sovereign credit rating.”
Guido was the first to point out that Starmer’s Chagos deal would avoid such a downgrade and Mauritius saw the deal as a way to swerve its economy being junked in international league tables. A shame, but it was never the job of British taxpayers to fix Mauritius’s problems…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”
