I haven't watched Starmer on #PMQs, so this is no shade on his performance, but the fact that he's being praised by the class of people who have consistently called every major political event wrong over the last decade makes me nervous

To people saying "watch it first and then judge," I DELIBERATELY didn't watch it before saying this, because I didn't want to give the impression that I was slyly trying to take a shot at Keir Starmer. That's not the point. I hope he did well!

The point is I hope we're using the right metrics to judge the performance of politicians, any politicians. And a bad metric is them earning the praise of a class of people who have demonstrated themselves to be completely out of touch with the majority of the public.

(This is not the same as wanting Labour leaders to ignore how politics works and pick pointless fights in the media. That was one of my major frustrations with Corbyn, which I wrote /spoke about publicly several times)