The standard vox pop assumption, full of rolling eyes and exaggerated yawns, is that politics in general – and elections in particular – are boring. Which is why newspaper staffing on the political side has shrunk year after year, and ITV thinks News at Ten is a turn-off.
But pause: It’s now a busy decade since a couple of Washington Post journalists founded Politico. Now it employs 500 people in the US, and 130 in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Rome and Warsaw, with more streaming into Westminster and surrounds as Brexit nears.
In September, Jack Blanchard, the Mirror’s former political editor, will launch a London Playbook, Politico’s global way of keeping professional politics watchers and players up to date (and making a little money along the way).
Politics isn’t boring if it absorbs your every working moment. Politics makes the world – and the internet – go round.
