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Lucien Young

Photo of Lucien Young

Lucien Young

  • Lucien Young
    I could manage the hell out of Waitrose

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Wes Streeting’s welcome to step outside

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Mandy lied to me. Really I’m the victim

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sat, 7 Feb 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Xi doesn’t worry about backbenchers or rude questions from Beth Rigby

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: I have been forced into endless U-turns and now poll worse than most STIs

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Nigel: When a woman asks if she’s being too something, the answer is yes

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite man of the people

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: If international law were a football team, I’d be at every match … but Gaza, Venezuela

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Fri, 9 Jan 2026

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: My resolution? Reverse my political fortunes

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sat, 3 Jan 2026

  • Lucien Young
    When you’re prime minister, you have 70 million backseat drivers

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Tue, 30 Dec 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: You slog your guts out but your back remains patless

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sun, 21 Dec 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: Beware the nerdy tree-hugger ex

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sat, 13 Dec 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Donald: People who have Problems are LOSERS

    Tremendous advice from your favourite president

    Sun, 7 Dec 2025

  • Lucien Young
    People underestimate me, so I overestimate to balance things out

    Grown-up advice from your favourite centrist’s chancellor

    Sat, 29 Nov 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: You have to be cruel to be kind – just ask the Sun

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Wes Sez: I learned the art of honesty from my heroes, Blair and Mandelson

    Advice from a streetwise Blairite

    Sat, 15 Nov 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: who can you trust if not Tony Blair?

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Fri, 7 Nov 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: Keep your friend, but let him know the axe could fall

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Sun, 2 Nov 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: How do I keep my kids on the straight and narrow?

    Sun, 26 Oct 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: Mr President, you are a golden god

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Thu, 16 Oct 2025

  • Lucien Young
    Dear Keir: Citizens should apply to me for free speech credits

    Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

    Fri, 10 Oct 2025

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