
The Chatterer is nothing if not generous, and so is happy in the season of goodwill to praise a nugget it picked up on a rival political podcast recorded at Whitehall institution the Red Lion, following the New Statesman podcast team’s own outing there this week.
This is the titbit on Telegraph podcast Chopper’s Politics that stalwart Brexiteer and Braveheart-quoting antihero of the Tory back benches, Mark Francois, has self-published his own book about the fight for Brexit – on Amazon, because all the publishing houses he went to (“a couple of dozen”) turned it down.