The Tories are living a weird double-existence of sounding populist and right wing - thereby infuriating the media and the commentariat - while not actually doing anything right-wing - thereby aliena… (View Post)

Well yes, but it's still pretty remarkable that he lost it. Brexit was never really a majority position at any time between 1974 up until about two weeks before the date of the referendum. It wo… (View Post)

Well it's broader even than that. It was broadly assumed that everyone was a white collar professional who had a house and could work from home. I mean, I guess government knew that delivery dri… (View Post)

Weirdly, the only person I can now picture doing that is Frank Skinner. (View Post)

There was a brief period, wasn't there - in the middle of the last decade - when Owen Jones did get a bit curious, and did a series of thoughtful pieces about how the working class no longer saw… (View Post)