Well this is an unexpectedly pleasing result from yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election.

Auto-generated description: A by-election result chart for Gorton and Denton shows vote shares for five parties and their change since 2024.

Maybe there are fragments of hope to be had, even in 2026.

The Reform candidate, Goodwin, was a particularly loathsome man, even by the standards of the average greedy, power-crazed, working-class-hating, obsequious friend of authoritarian billionaires that is the average high-up in Reform PLC.

I’m grateful to the 71% of Gorton and Denton voters that opposed him for keeping for keeping him as far away from the levers of power as possible.