Isn't the problem that Sunak can run a government but can't win an election whereas Johnson is the opposite? And before any other party gets complacent the issue is not confined to the Tori… (View Post)

David Frost, TW3 c.1966: "The minister for agriculture lives in a house; the minister for housing lives on a farm." (Healy and Callaghan respectively) (View Post)

Starmer is a Roundhead - as socially and fiscally conservative as Cromwell himself. Unfortunately for the Tories they have ditched their most plausible leader for being ... err ... too cavalier, and … (View Post)

I think Stuart was ticked off for calling her 'Lady Michelle Mone' as if she were the flibbertigibbet daughter of an earl invented by Evelyn Waugh when, in fact, she's much more import… (View Post)

"Tasteless gibberish from an ageing man" deserves a place in the pantheon of PB textual commentary much as "vapid bilge" did in its time. (View Post)