Welcome back.
Dark Arts was in Parliament on Tuesday evening, discussing with a very seasoned hack the current state of play. The hack observed that in his decades spent covering politics, the one trend that has held constant is the increasing proximity between big business, the corporate world and Westminster – a trend he felt had been imported largely from the US, and that he fears is now irreversible. His words were still ringing in my ears later that night, as news came through of Donald Trump’s likely victory, his campaign having been bolstered by the US oligarch class.
So a cheerful night, all in all.
