Well, the "not much else" included winning Bethnal Green & Bow at the 2005 General Election. A quite extraordinary achievement. But, yes, Wes Streeting is safe enough. Galloway's vote i… (View Post)

Starmer's top team has very little ministerial experience. If not Blair or Brown, perhaps Mandelson? He's a peer anyway so could be slotted into the cabinet somewhere. I think Cameron benefited from … (View Post)

J K Rowling herself isn't exactly a righty. You can tell that from her portrayal of the Dursleys. Indeed, I think she is a friend of Gordon Brown. Although given Scottish Labour's less than heroic ap… (View Post)

The trans/gender thing does seem to have permeated corporate culture, in quite surprising ways. For instance: earlier today I was travelling on an LNER train to Edinburgh. There was a poster in the c… (View Post)

The point of JK's tweet was to render the hate crime law unusable. It was a deliberate provocation - "do me if you dare". Effectively it is helping to protect free speech in Natland. I imag… (View Post)