Kay Burley’s explosive return to the political and commentariat scene with her talkative Substack has caused quite a splash. Oh wait – no it hasn’t…
Burley left Sky News in February 2025 but has returned to the British media space with a Substack and numerous X posts per day, often issuing sarky attacks on Reformish people. She was even on Newsnight – though that appearance was somewhat tarred by her bizarre insistence that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is a war hero…
Her wide-ranging blog, Burley Alive, has been up for over a month and seen ten articles, though doesn’t seen to be capturing the public imagination. Despite Burley’s repeated self-promotion…
One piece of analysis concluded:
“I am not tribal with my politics and of course immigration should be debated, robustly, with real numbers and real life expectations, but there is a wide gap between having that debate and creating an atmosphere where anyone who looks or sounds ‘foreign’ becomes a target for someone else’s anger.”
For her efforts Burley has only 428 subscribers – free and paid – at time of going to pixel. Huw Edwards has more than double that…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”