Jonathan Meades On France is a superb dissection of the country. (View Post)

Indeed. There is also the problem that the cycles for the UK and EU are decoupling rapidly. hence UK construction upswing, EU downswing. Getting back in will be like jumping from a trapeze- it needs … (View Post)

Chalk is locally very popular. With only 11% nationally, I fear that several Lib Dem targets may end up being missed. It is why their targeting needed to be so disciplined. (View Post)

Whatever is going on its pretty unlikely to break on July 4th in any event. Maybe next Monday. (View Post)

Under our constitutional arrangement we usually talk about a "working majority", which is usually deemed to be a majority sufficient to expedite Parliamentary business for the government in… (View Post)